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Beyond Distribution Matching: Semantics-Consistent Tabular Diffusion with Weak Semantic Priors

arXiv机器学习 2026-09-13 22:42 2 阅读 查看原文

Synthetic tabular data can match real data distributions while still violating the semantic constraints that govern valid tabular rows. This reveals a key limitation of existing tabular generators: they mainly optimize distributional fidelity, but do not explicitly model weak semantic priors encoded in tabular schema and textual descriptions.

In this paper, we propose \ours, a semantics-consistent tabular diffusion framework for high-fidelity synthetic data generation under weakly specified semantic priors. \ours\ first constructs two types of priors, namely intra-column semantics and inter-column symbolic rules, with LLM-assisted extraction from metadata and validation on the real training split. These priors are then used as generation conditions rather than post-hoc filters.

Specifically, \ours\ maps heterogeneous column values, column identities, and semantic priors into a unified semantic space, and performs column-wise forward corruption and prior-conditioned reverse denoising to preserve both marginal distributions and rule-consistent cross-column dependencies.

Experiments

Extensive experiments on six real-world tabular benchmarks show that \ours\ consistently improves distributional fidelity, semantic consistency, and downstream task utility over representative VAE-, GAN-, LLM-, and diffusion-based baselines.

Additional Analyses

Additional analyses further demonstrate the robustness of \ours\ when semantic priors are partially unavailable.