arxiv: 2604.09091 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-10 · 💻 cs.LG

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Synthesizing real-world distributions from high-dimensional Gaussian Noise with Fully Connected Neural Network

Joanna Komorniczak

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keywords synthetic datagenerative modelsfully connected neural networksGaussian noisetabular dataMMD evaluationdata privacydistribution matching

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A fully connected neural network with randomized loss turns high-dimensional Gaussian noise into synthetic copies of real tabular datasets.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows that a basic fully connected neural network trained with a randomized loss can map random Gaussian inputs to outputs that closely match the distribution of real-world tabular data. This approach is presented as faster than existing generative models while still delivering competitive or better similarity scores. Experiments across 25 diverse datasets support claims of improved speed and utility for tasks like classification and privacy-preserving data use. The method also incorporates PCA to reduce dimensions and further protect original data characteristics.

Core claim

The fully connected neural network, when trained using a randomized loss on Gaussian noise, produces synthetic data that approximates target real-world distributions with reference MMD scores, outperforming state-of-the-art generative methods while requiring far less computation time across 25 tabular datasets.

What carries the argument

A fully connected neural network trained with a randomized loss function that maps high-dimensional Gaussian noise to approximate a target real-world data distribution.

If this is right

Synthetic data generation becomes practical for large-scale use due to reduced training and inference time.
Data privacy improves because only the trained network and reduced PCA components need sharing instead of original samples.
Classification performance on downstream tasks can be maintained or enhanced by augmenting real data with the generated samples.
Dimensionality reduction via PCA lowers memory and time costs while supporting the generative process.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The approach might simplify generative modeling pipelines by replacing complex architectures with a single fully connected network.
Extensions could test whether the same randomized loss works on non-tabular data such as images or sequences.
Integration into existing ML workflows could lower overall compute budgets for data augmentation tasks.

Load-bearing premise

A fully connected network trained this way on Gaussian noise will reliably match distributions from many different real tabular datasets without overfitting or major loss of fidelity.

What would settle it

Apply the method to a new tabular dataset outside the original 25 and measure whether MMD scores stay competitive while training and generation times remain orders of magnitude lower than current deep generative alternatives.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.09091 by Joanna Komorniczak.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: The iterative process of distribution matching towards a moons dataset (black points). The red and blue markers represent synthetic data after 10, 100, and 1000 epochs [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The illustrative example of synthetic data distribution matching (red and blue markers) towards a target distribution (black markers) after 500 epochs and the use of three different loss functions. The raw Wasserstein loss optimizes the distance in each dimension separately, hence, it does not consider the relationship between problem attributes. Using feature Covariance as an additional optimization fact… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Visualization of samples generated in the original feature space (top row) and after inverse transform from PCA components after generation in reduced dimensionality (bottom row) Even though the method was designed for tabular data, this example used a dataset that presents images of size 8x8. It was motivated by the possibility of visualizing the high-dimensional data (64 features) as images. The pixel … view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Xt, yt i th fold Xe, ye ΨREAL Generator ΨSY N Xs, ys QSY N QREAL ∆Q D(Xc t , Xc s) for class c in y ED [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Critical Difference diagrams for original data dimensionality in three evaluation metrics. The results of methods whose acronyms are connected with a line are statistically dependent. The best distribution matching is related to a low rank. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SMOTE RAE WC SVMSMOTE W TVAE GC CTGAN CD Measure: WD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SMOTE RAE WC W SVMSMOTE GC TVAE CTGAN CD Measure: MMD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 SMOTE RAE SV… view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Critical Difference diagrams for mapping to extracted features after PCA dimensionality reduction in three evaluation metrics. According to the results presented in the diagrams, SMOTE ranked best across almost all metrics in both experimental scenarios. RAE, statistically related to the leader in all cases, ranked 2nd or 3rd. The remaining DiMSO configurations also yielded good results. As expected, Di… view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: The results of the second experiment for original dimensionality (top) and reduced dimensionality with PCA (bottom). Each subplot shows results for a different classifier. The red box color indicates a significant average improvement in classification quality. less of the synthesization approach. However, after PCA, the use of RAE, WC, and SMOTE yields results similar to those from real-world data. The res… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Change in the BAC metric for MLP classifier and dimensionality reduced with PCA across all datasets, ordered according to the proportions of classes. is less significant, there are visible drops in quality for W, GC, TVAE, and CTGAN generators. Using RAE, WC, and SMOTE usually results in a slight improvement in BAC. It is worth noting that in some datasets, the best results are achieved by generators that … view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Critical difference diagrams presenting the ranks and statistical relation of results for each classifier, based on the results from the second experiment in original dimensionality. 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 RAE W WC SMOTE GC TVAE SVMSMOTE CTGAN CD Classifier: GNB 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 RAE SMOTE WC TVAE SVMSMOTE W GC CTGAN CD Classifier: DT 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 RAE SMOTE WC TVAE SVMSMOTE GC W CTGAN CD Classifier: RFC 8 7 6 5… view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Critical difference diagrams presenting the ranks and statistical relation of results for each classifier, based on the results from the second experiment when using PCA-extracted features. In this analysis, the highest rank indicates the best result. In the original data dimensionality, the group of best-performing methods remains consistent for GNB, SVC, and MLP classifiers. Among those base learners, R… view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: The results of the time comparison experiment in relation to TVAE (top) and CTGAN (bottom). The line plots show how the MMD of the generated dataset changed during optimization, and the bar plot shows the execution time of DiMSO and the reference in a logarithmic scale. matching the distribution with DiMSO. The first three plots in Figure show how MMD of DiMSO-generated dataset changed every 10 epochs wit… view at source ↗

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The use of synthetic data in machine learning applications and research offers many benefits, including performance improvements through data augmentation, privacy preservation of original samples, and reliable method assessment with fully synthetic data. This work proposes a time-efficient synthetic data generation method based on a fully connected neural network and a randomized loss function that transforms a random Gaussian distribution to approximate a target real-world dataset. The experiments conducted on 25 diverse tabular real-world datasets confirm that the proposed solution surpasses the state-of-the-art generative methods and achieves reference MMD scores orders of magnitude faster than modern deep learning solutions. The experiments involved analyzing distributional similarity, assessing the impact on classification quality, and using PCA for dimensionality reduction, which further enhances data privacy and can boost classification quality while reducing time and memory complexity.

Editorial analysis

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Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

A straightforward FCNN with randomized loss claims to generate synthetic tabular data faster and with better MMD than SOTA methods across 25 datasets, but the abstract leaves the experimental controls unclear.

read the letter

The main takeaway here is that the authors have a simple fully connected network setup with a randomized loss that they say can generate synthetic tabular data from Gaussian noise faster than standard generative models while matching distributions well on 25 real datasets. What the paper does is test this on a variety of tabular data, measure MMD for similarity, see if the synthetic data works for training classifiers, and mention PCA to reduce dimensions for better privacy and efficiency. The approach avoids the complexity of GANs or VAEs, which is a practical plus for quick generation. The experiments seem to cover enough ground to suggest the method has some utility for data augmentation and privacy tasks. On the downside, the abstract does not provide enough on the exact baselines used, whether there were proper train-test splits for the MMD calculations, or any statistical tests for the claimed improvements. This leaves open the possibility that the good scores come from the network memorizing the data rather than learning the distribution, especially with a high-capacity model. The speed claims also need concrete numbers and fair comparisons to hold up. This kind of work is for researchers and engineers dealing with tabular data who need synthetic versions for privacy or to boost small datasets. A reader looking for new generative techniques might find the simplicity interesting if the results check out. I think it deserves a serious referee to examine the full experimental setup and see if the claims about surpassing SOTA are supported.

Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a method for generating synthetic tabular data by training a fully connected neural network with a randomized loss function to transform high-dimensional Gaussian noise into samples that approximate the distribution of real-world datasets. Experiments on 25 tabular datasets are used to claim that this approach outperforms state-of-the-art generative models in MMD-based distributional similarity while being significantly faster, and that it can improve classification performance and privacy when combined with PCA dimensionality reduction.

Significance. Should the results be confirmed with rigorous experimental controls, the proposed FCNN-based approach with randomized loss could represent a notable advance in efficient synthetic data generation for tabular data, offering simplicity and speed advantages over more complex models like GANs. This could have practical implications for data augmentation, privacy, and benchmarking in machine learning applications. The work is credited for its empirical focus on multiple real-world datasets and exploration of downstream task impacts.

major comments (3)

[Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the method 'surpasses the state-of-the-art generative methods' and achieves 'reference MMD scores orders of magnitude faster' lacks any enumeration of the baseline methods, their MMD values, or timing benchmarks. This omission is load-bearing because without these specifics, the superiority and speed claims cannot be evaluated or reproduced.
[Experiments] Experiments section: No information is provided on whether the MMD evaluations were performed on held-out test sets or on the training data used to fit the FCNN. Given the high capacity of fully connected networks, if MMD is computed on training samples, the reported scores may indicate memorization rather than true distribution learning, directly undermining the fidelity claims across the 25 datasets.
[Experiments] Experiments section: The manuscript does not report statistical significance tests (e.g., p-values or confidence intervals) for the MMD comparisons or classification accuracy improvements, nor details on data splits or cross-validation procedures. These are necessary to support the assertions of consistent outperformance.

minor comments (1)

[Abstract] Abstract: The abstract refers to 'analyzing distributional similarity' and 'assessing the impact on classification quality' but does not preview any specific quantitative results or figures from these analyses.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback, which highlights important areas for improving clarity and rigor. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript accordingly.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the method 'surpasses the state-of-the-art generative methods' and achieves 'reference MMD scores orders of magnitude faster' lacks any enumeration of the baseline methods, their MMD values, or timing benchmarks. This omission is load-bearing because without these specifics, the superiority and speed claims cannot be evaluated or reproduced.

Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from greater specificity. In the revised manuscript, we will enumerate the primary baseline methods (e.g., CTGAN, TVAE, and others from the experiments) and include key quantitative results on MMD improvements and runtime advantages drawn directly from our tables. This will make the claims more concrete and easier to evaluate. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: No information is provided on whether the MMD evaluations were performed on held-out test sets or on the training data used to fit the FCNN. Given the high capacity of fully connected networks, if MMD is computed on training samples, the reported scores may indicate memorization rather than true distribution learning, directly undermining the fidelity claims across the 25 datasets.

Authors: We thank the referee for raising this critical point. The MMD scores were computed using held-out test sets: the FCNN was trained on the training split, and MMD was evaluated between samples generated from Gaussian noise and the unseen test data. We will explicitly document the train/test splits, the evaluation protocol, and any steps taken to mitigate overfitting in the revised Experiments section. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: The manuscript does not report statistical significance tests (e.g., p-values or confidence intervals) for the MMD comparisons or classification accuracy improvements, nor details on data splits or cross-validation procedures. These are necessary to support the assertions of consistent outperformance.

Authors: We acknowledge the value of statistical rigor. The revised manuscript will report results aggregated over multiple random seeds, including means with standard deviations or confidence intervals for MMD and accuracy metrics, along with appropriate significance tests. We will also detail the data splitting strategy (e.g., 80/20 train/test) and any cross-validation used for downstream classification tasks. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical proposal supported by external dataset experiments

full rationale

The paper advances an empirical method for synthetic tabular data generation via a fully connected network trained on Gaussian noise with a randomized loss. Its central claims rest on experimental results across 25 independent real-world datasets, measuring MMD distributional similarity, downstream classification performance, and PCA-based privacy effects. No derivation chain, equations, or predictions are presented that reduce by construction to fitted inputs or self-citations; the work is framed as a practical proposal validated against external benchmarks rather than self-referential fitting. Any self-citations (if present) are not load-bearing for the reported performance advantages.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

Based on abstract only; full details on parameters, assumptions, and any invented components unavailable. The method implicitly relies on standard neural network capabilities and the transformability of distributions.

free parameters (2)

neural network architecture parameters
Number of layers, hidden units, and training hyperparameters chosen to enable the mapping from noise to target data.
randomization parameters in loss function
Details of how and to what extent the loss is randomized, which must be specified to reproduce the training process.

axioms (2)

domain assumption A fully connected neural network can learn a mapping from Gaussian noise to approximate arbitrary real-world distributions.
Core premise of the generative approach stated in the abstract.
standard math Universal approximation theorem applies to enable distribution matching via the network.
Implicit background result relied upon for the method to work.

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