MIND: Marginal-Invariant Neural Dependency Diffusion for Mixed-Type Tabular Generation

arXiv:2609.39628v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes MIND, a marginal-invariant neural dependency diffusion model for mixed-type tabular data. MIND does not directly learn the joint distribution in the original heterogeneous feature space. Instead, it first maps different variable types into a unified latent dependency space via column-wise marginal transport. A conditional diffusion model then learns cross-column relationships. Copula-tangent denoising separates known marginal components from learnable dependency residuals. Rank projection during the sampling phase further mitigates marginal shift in reverse diffusion. Experiments across nine diverse tabular benchmarks show that MIND consistently improves marginal fidelity and dependency preservation over existing unified approaches. By explicitly isolating marginal modelling from dependency learning, MIND achieves a strong and stable balance among marginal fidelity, joint dependency preservation, and downstream prediction utility. This work supports separating marginal and dependency modelling as a principled and highly effective paradigm for complex mixed-type tabular generation.

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Source: arXiv cs.LG | 2026-10-01