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most citedSynthetic Tabular Data Validation: A Divergence-Based Approach

24 citations · 30 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Not all Jensen-Shannon Divergence Estimators are Equal

Alba Garrido, Alejandro Almodóvar, Mar Elizo +3

The Jensen-Shannon divergence is widely reported as a scalar measure of fidelity for synthetic tabular data. Yet, in practice, it is estimated from finite samples using protocols t…

cs.CV2026

No Free Lunch for Synthetic Images under Data Scarcity Conditions

Borja Arroyo Galende, Alejandro Almodóvar, Patricia A. Apellániz +3

This study investigates the trade-offs between fidelity, privacy, and utility in synthetic data generation under conditions of data scarcity and privacy sensitivity. We propose an…

cs.LG2026

Kolmogorov-Arnold causal generative models

Alejandro Almodóvar, Mar Elizo, Patricia A. Apellániz +2

Causal generative models provide a principled framework for answering observational, interventional, and counterfactual queries from observational data. However, many deep causal m…

stat.ML2025

CausalKANs: interpretable treatment effect estimation with Kolmogorov-Arnold networks

Alejandro Almodóvar, Patricia A. Apellániz, Santiago Zazo +1

Deep neural networks achieve state-of-the-art performance in estimating heterogeneous treatment effects, but their opacity limits trust and adoption in sensitive domains such as me…

cs.LG2025

Interpretable Clinical Classification with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks

Alejandro Almodóvar, Patricia A. Apellániz, Alba Garrido +3

The increasing use of machine learning in clinical decision support has been limited by the lack of transparency of many high-performing models. In clinical settings, predictions m…

cs.LG2025

Deep Survival Analysis in Multimodal Medical Data: A Parametric and Probabilistic Approach with Competing Risks

Alba Garrido, Alejandro Almodóvar, Patricia A. Apellániz +2

Accurate survival prediction is critical in oncology for prognosis and treatment planning. Traditional approaches often rely on a single data modality, limiting their ability to ca…

cs.LG2025

DeCaFlow: A deconfounding causal generative model

Alejandro Almodóvar, Adrián Javaloy, Juan Parras +2

We introduce DeCaFlow, a deconfounding causal generative model. Training once per dataset using just observational data and the underlying causal graph, DeCaFlow enables accurate c…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Artificial Inductive Bias for Synthetic Tabular Data Generation in Data-Scarce Scenarios

Patricia A. Apellániz, Ana Jiménez, Borja Arroyo Galende +2

While synthetic tabular data generation using Deep Generative Models (DGMs) offers a compelling solution to data scarcity and privacy concerns, their effectiveness relies on the av…

cs.LG2024★ 24 cited

Synthetic Tabular Data Validation: A Divergence-Based Approach

Patricia A. Apellániz, Ana Jiménez, Borja Arroyo Galende +2

The ever-increasing use of generative models in various fields where tabular data is used highlights the need for robust and standardized validation metrics to assess the similarit…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

An improved tabular data generator with VAE-GMM integration

Patricia A. Apellániz, Juan Parras, Santiago Zazo

The rising use of machine learning in various fields requires robust methods to create synthetic tabular data. Data should preserve key characteristics while addressing data scarci…

cs.LG2023

SAVAE: Leveraging the variational Bayes autoencoder for survival analysis

Patricia A. Apellániz, Juan Parras, Santiago Zazo

As in many fields of medical research, survival analysis has witnessed a growing interest in the application of deep learning techniques to model complex, high-dimensional, heterog…