Generating Accurate Synthetic Survival Data by Conditioning on Outcomes
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| author | Ashhad, Mohd Henao, Ricardo |
| author_facet | Ashhad, Mohd Henao, Ricardo |
| contents | Synthetically generated data can improve privacy, fairness, and data accessibility; however, it can be challenging in specialized scenarios such as survival analysis. One key challenge in this setting is censoring, i.e., the timing of an event is unknown in some cases. Existing methods struggle to accurately reproduce the distributions of both observed and censored event times when generating synthetic data. We propose a conceptually simple approach that generates covariates conditioned on event times and censoring indicators by leveraging existing tabular data generation models without making assumptions about the mechanism underlying censoring. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms baselines and improves downstream survival model performance. |
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| spellingShingle | Generating Accurate Synthetic Survival Data by Conditioning on Outcomes Ashhad, Mohd Henao, Ricardo Machine Learning Synthetically generated data can improve privacy, fairness, and data accessibility; however, it can be challenging in specialized scenarios such as survival analysis. One key challenge in this setting is censoring, i.e., the timing of an event is unknown in some cases. Existing methods struggle to accurately reproduce the distributions of both observed and censored event times when generating synthetic data. We propose a conceptually simple approach that generates covariates conditioned on event times and censoring indicators by leveraging existing tabular data generation models without making assumptions about the mechanism underlying censoring. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms baselines and improves downstream survival model performance. |
| title | Generating Accurate Synthetic Survival Data by Conditioning on Outcomes |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17333 |