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Table 3 Analysis of synthetic data generation mechanisms

From: Tabular and latent space synthetic data generation: a literature review

Type

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Smoothness

Manifold

Priv.

Reg.

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Semi-SL

Self-SL

Perturbation

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Laplace

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Gaussian

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Zero-out noise

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PDF

Gaussian Gen.

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Gaussian Mix.

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KDE

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PGM

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Gibbs

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Random Walk

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Linear

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Extrapolation

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Hard Extra.

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Inter.+Extra.

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Difference Transf.

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Geometric

Hypersphere

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Triangular

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Hyperrectangle

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Neural nets.

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AE

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Others

Exponential M.

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