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: 12280
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 6.7982037e-05
Overall Rank: 4,261 | 70.77%
DOI: 10.14778/3407790.3407802

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Authors

1. Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)
2. Tongyu Liu (Renmin University of China)
3. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
4. Junyou Chen (Renmin University of China)
5. Yuwei Shen (Renmin University of China)
6. Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fan_vldb20,
        title = {{Relational Data Synthesis using Generative Adversarial Networks: A Design Space Exploration}},
        author = {Fan, Ju and Liu, Tongyu and Li, Guoliang and Chen, Junyou and Shen, Yuwei and Du, Xiaoyong},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1962--1975},
        doi = {10.14778/3407790.3407802},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3407790.3407802},
        year = {2020}
}

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3,412	Kamino: Constraint-Aware Differentially Private Data Synthesis	2021	VLDB	7.4344343e-05
4,612	Warper: Efficiently Adapting Learned Cardinality Estimators to Data and Workload Drifts	2022	SIGMOD	6.6072026e-05
4,835	Adaptive Data Augmentation for Supervised Learning over Missing Data	2021	VLDB	6.486592e-05
5,105	SAM: Database Generation from Query Workloads with Supervised Autoregressive Models	2022	SIGMOD	6.3628539e-05
6,555	Controllable Tabular Data Synthesis Using Diffusion Models	2024	SIGMOD	5.8415111e-05
7,556	ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.5997742e-05
8,959	TSM-Bench: Benchmarking Time Series Database Systems for Monitoring Applications	2023	VLDB	5.3444909e-05
9,388	Chameleon: Foundation Models for Fairness-aware Multi-modal Data Augmentation to Enhance Coverage of Minorities	2024	VLDB	5.2755515e-05
9,717	HDPView: Differentially Private Materialized View for Exploring High Dimensional Relational Data	2022	VLDB	5.2333549e-05
9,777	PBench: Workload Synthesizer with Real Statistics for Cloud Analytics Benchmarking	2025	VLDB	5.2209769e-05
9,930	Data Augmentation for ML-driven Data Preparation and Integration	2021	VLDB	5.1955087e-05
10,831	Holistic query Approximation via RL Modeling	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
130	Privacy, Accuracy, and Consistency Too: A Holistic Solution to Contingency Table Release	2007	PODS	0.00030604781
244	On the Design and Quantification of Privacy Preserving Data Mining Algorithms	2001	PODS	0.00023476901
1,108	Approximate Query Processing: No Silver Bullet	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012145154
1,169	PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011838753
2,129	Data Synthesis based on Generative Adversarial Networks	2018	VLDB	9.1266572e-05
3,939	DPSynthesizer: Differentially Private Data Synthesizer for Privacy Preserving Data Sharing	2014	VLDB	7.008159e-05
6,908	Cost-Effective Data Annotation using Game-Based Crowdsourcing	2019	VLDB	5.7415834e-05
8,495	CrowdGame: A Game-Based Crowdsourcing System for Cost-Effective Data Labeling	2019	SIGMOD	5.4139128e-05

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