New Approaches to Synthetic Tabular Data Generation

Synthetic data generation, while already becoming well-known as part of Generative AI (GenAI), has been primarily focused on images, voice, and text, which mostly have homogeneous data formats. This dissertation focuses on the modeling and generation of synthetic tables, which involve a range of characteristics: numerous variables, diverse attribute types, functional dependencies across columns, and temporal dependencies across rows. We aim to explore how to generate higher-quality synthetic tabular data through the following subproblems: (1) auto-regressive DNNs for synthetic table generation (STG), (2) large language models (LLMs) for adaptive STG with higher fidelity, (3) reducing in-context learning burden in STG via LLM priors, (4) embedding isotropy as a trust indicator for STG with LLMs, and (5) STG for next-generation wireless as a telecom application. Through Problems 1 and 2, we aim to improve the quality of generated synthetic tables; in Problem 3, we reduce the computational cost while maintaining quality; Problem 4 proposes a trust indicator for evaluating synthetic data quality by analyzing the isotropy of the model's internal embeddings; and Problem 5 demonstrates an application scenario in wireless telecommunications.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science & Applications

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science and#38; Applications

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2025

Author dc:creator

• Xu, Shengzhe

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Ramakrishnan, Narendran

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Jia, Ruoxi
• Yao, Danfeng
• Marwah, Manish
• Lu, Chang Tien

• Generative Neural Models
• Tabular Data
• Large Language Models

Statement dc:rights

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

vt_gsexam:44339

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/136928