Method or Implementation? A Plea for More Rigor in Synthetic Data Benchmarking
Benchmarks that find GANs uncompetitive for tabular synthetic data often compare a default implementation, not the method.
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Generating Synthetic Data is Complicated: Know Your Data and Know Your Generator
Ready-made synthetic data generators are not plug-and-play: preprocessing matters as much as tuning, and so does knowing the generator.