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Workshop: Table Representation Learning Workshop

TabPFGen – Tabular Data Generation with TabPFN

Jeremy (Junwei) Ma · Apoorv Dankar · George Stein · Guangwei Yu · Anthony Caterini

Keywords: [ energy based model ] [ tabpfn ] [ tabular data ] [ generative model ] [ in-context learning ]


Abstract:

Advances in deep generative modelling have not translated well to tabular data. We argue that this is caused by a mismatch in structure between popular generative models and discriminative models of tabular data. We thus devise a technique to turn TabPFN -- a highly performant transformer initially designed for in-context discriminative tabular tasks -- into an energy-based generative model, which we dub TabPFGen. This novel framework leverages the pre-trained TabPFN as part of the energy function and does not require any additional training or hyperparameter tuning, thus inheriting TabPFN's in-context learning capability. We can sample from TabPFGen analogously to other energy-based models. We demonstrate strong results on standard generative modelling tasks, including data augmentation, class-balancing, and imputation, unlocking a new frontier of tabular data generation.

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