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Synthesizer functions

SDGym evaluates the performance of Synthetic Data Generators, also called Synthesizers.

A Synthesizer is a Python function (or class method) that takes as input a dict with table names and pandas.DataFrame instances, which we call the real data, and outputs another dict with the same shape entries and new pandas.DataFrame instances, filled with new synthetic data that has the same format and mathematical properties as the real data.

The complete list of inputs of the synthesizer is:

• real_data: a dict containing table names as keys and pandas.DataFrame instances as values.

• metadata: an instance of an sdv.Metadata with information about the dataset.

And the output is a new dict with the same tables that the real_data contains.

def synthesizer_function(real_data: dict[str, pandas.DataFrame],
                         metadata: sdv.Metadata) -> real_data: dict[str, pandas.DataFrame]:
    ...
    # do all necessary steps to learn from the real data
    # and produce new synthetic data that resembles it
    ...
    return synthetic_data

SDGym Synthesizers

Apart from the benchmark functionality, SDGym implements a collection of Baseline Synthesizers which are either trivial baseline synthesizers or integrations of synthesizers found in other libraries.

These Synthesizers are written as Python classes that can be imported from the sdgym.synthesizers module and have a fit_sample method with the signature indicated above, which can be directly passed to the sdgym.run function to benchmark them.

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