Understanding Latent Flow Models for Tabular Data Synthesis: Targets, Paths, and Sampling

arXiv:2606.20878v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic tabular data enables microdata sharing in regulated domains, yet deploying continuous-time generative models requires balancing analytical utility, disclosure risk, and computational cost. Latent-space flow models are flexible, but theoretical equivalences across learning targets, probability paths, and sampling dynamics can translate into different behaviour under finite-step integration and explicit compute budgets. We present an empiri...