Relational Data Synthesis using Generative Adversarial Networks: A Design Space Exploration

Summary: Comprehensive experimental study of relational data synthesis with GANs in a unified framework, detailing a design space over architectures and training methods. Shows GANs' promise over traditional synthesis and offers design guidance plus future directions. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12092
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 5.8540287e-05
Overall Rank: 4,884 | 66.03%
DOI: 10.14778/3407790.3407802

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3,831	Kamino: Constraint-Aware Differentially Private Data Synthesis	2021	VLDB	6.7181688e-05
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5,645	Warper: Efficiently Adapting Learned Cardinality Estimators to Data and Workload Drifts	2022	SIGMOD	5.3923454e-05
5,942	SAM: Database Generation from Query Workloads with Supervised Autoregressive Models	2022	SIGMOD	5.2634242e-05
7,634	ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases	2021	SIGMOD	4.6911382e-05
8,523	Controllable Tabular Data Synthesis Using Diffusion Models	2024	SIGMOD	4.4937074e-05
8,985	TSM-Bench: Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications	2023	VLDB	4.4156106e-05
9,592	HDPView: Differentially Private Materialized View for Exploring High Dimensional Relational Data	2022	VLDB	4.3202988e-05
9,777	Data Augmentation for ML-driven Data Preparation and Integration	2021	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
10,565	Holistic query Approximation via RL Modeling	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,707	PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,068	Chameleon: Foundation Models for Fairness-aware Multi-modal Data Augmentation to Enhance Coverage of Minorities	2024	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
111	Privacy, Accuracy, and Consistency Too: A Holistic Solution to Contingency Table Release	2007	PODS	0.00047073785
147	On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms	2001	PODS	0.00041235556
1,446	PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks	2014	SIGMOD	0.0001194108
1,574	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011287495
2,421	Data Synthesis based on Generative Adversarial Networks	2018	VLDB	8.8514021e-05
4,252	DPSynthesizer: Differentially Private Data Synthesizer for Privacy Preserving Data Sharing	2014	VLDB	6.3233894e-05
6,868	Cost-Effective Data Annotation using Game-Based Crowdsourcing	2019	VLDB	4.9010083e-05
8,343	CrowdGame: A Game-Based Crowdsourcing System for Cost-Effective Data Labeling	2019	SIGMOD	4.5429217e-05

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