The main idea was to develop a diffusion model that integrates continuous and categorical effectively and efficiently. We aimed to unify both feature types in continuous space and to balance their losses to avoid implicit importance weights that impact sample quality.
@inproceedings{mueller2025,title={Continuous {{Diffusion}} for {{Mixed-Type Tabular Data}}},booktitle={International {{Conference}} on {{Learning Representations}}},author={Mueller, Markus and Gruber, Kathrin and Fok, Dennis},year={2025},idea={The main idea was to develop a diffusion model that integrates continuous and categorical effectively and efficiently. We aimed to unify both feature types in continuous space and to balance their losses to avoid implicit importance weights that impact sample quality.}}