Controllable Tabular Data Synthesis Using Diffusion Models

Summary: Unconditional tabular diffusion is learned, with lightweight controllers enforcing user-defined conditions (fixed attributes, cross-table correlations). A correlation-aware sampler preserves realism under control, delivering SOTA results. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6899
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 5.8415111e-05
Overall Rank: 6,555 | 55.03%
DOI: 10.1145/3639283

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Authors

1. Tongyu Liu (Renmin University of China)
2. Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)
3. Nan Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
4. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
5. Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{liu_sigmod24,
        title = {{Controllable Tabular Data Synthesis Using Diffusion Models}},
        author = {Liu, Tongyu and Fan, Ju and Tang, Nan and Li, Guoliang and Du, Xiaoyong},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3639283},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639283},
        year = {2024}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,272	NeurBench: A Benchmark Suite for Learned Database Components with Drift Modeling: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,276	OctoSelector: Efficient and Effective Batch-Aware Model Selection for Large Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,282	Prism: Private Relational Data Synthesis with Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,416	WaveStitch: Flexible and Fast Conditional Time Series Generation With Diffusion Models	2026	SIGMOD	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
401	Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation	2020	VLDB	0.00019092557
1,169	PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011838753
1,573	Deep Learning Models for Selectivity Estimation of Multi-Attribute Queries	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010328171
2,019	RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation	2021	VLDB	9.2983994e-05
2,129	Data Synthesis based on Generative Adversarial Networks	2018	VLDB	9.1266572e-05
4,261	Relational Data Synthesis using Generative Adversarial Networks: A Design Space Exploration	2020	VLDB	6.7982037e-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
7,556	ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.5997742e-05

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