Overview

The Synthetic Data Gym (SDGym) is a benchmarking framework for modeling and generating synthetic data. Measure performance and memory usage across different synthetic data modeling techniques – classical statistics, deep learning and more!

The SDGym library integrates with the Synthetic Data Vault ecosystem. You can use any of its synthesizers, datasets or metrics for benchmarking. You can also customize the process to include your own work.

• Datasets: Select any of the publicly available datasets from the SDV project, or input your own data.
• Synthesizers: Choose from any of the SDV synthesizers and baselines. Or write your own custom machine learning model.
• Evaluation: In addition to performance and memory usage, you can also measure synthetic data quality and privacy through a variety of metrics.

Install

Install SDGym using pip or conda. We recommend using a virtual environment to avoid conflicts with other software on your device.

pip install sdgym

conda install -c pytorch -c conda-forge sdgym

For more information about using SDGym, visit the SDGym Documentation.

Usage

Let's benchmark synthetic data generation for single tables. First, let's define which modeling techniques we want to use. Let's choose a few synthesizers from the SDV library and a few others to use as baselines.

# these synthesizers come from the SDV library
# each one uses different modeling techniques
sdv_synthesizers = ['GaussianCopulaSynthesizer', 'CTGANSynthesizer']

# these basic synthesizers are available in SDGym
# as baselines
baseline_synthesizers = ['UniformSynthesizer']

Now, we can benchmark the different techniques:

import sdgym

sdgym.benchmark_single_table(synthesizers=(sdv_synthesizers + baseline_synthesizers))

The result is a detailed performance, memory and quality evaluation across the synthesizers on a variety of publicly available datasets.

Supplying a custom synthesizer

Benchmark your own synthetic data generation techniques. Define your synthesizer by specifying the training logic (using machine learning) and the sampling logic.

def my_training_logic(data, metadata):
    # create an object to represent your synthesizer
    # train it using the data
    return synthesizer


def my_sampling_logic(trained_synthesizer, num_rows):
    # use the trained synthesizer to create
    # num_rows of synthetic data
    return synthetic_data

Learn more in the Custom Synthesizers Guide.

Customizing your datasets

The SDGym library includes many publicly available datasets that you can include right away. List these using the list_datasets feature.

sdgym.dataset_explorer.DatasetExplorer().list_datasets()

dataset_name   size_MB     num_tables
KRK_v1         0.072128    1
adult          3.907448    1
alarm          4.520128    1
asia           1.280128    1
...

You can also include any custom, private datasets that are stored on your computer on an Amazon S3 bucket.

my_datasets_folder = 's3://my-datasets-bucket'

For more information, see the docs for Customized Datasets.

What's next?

Visit the SDGym Documentation to learn more!

The Synthetic Data Vault Project was first created at MIT's Data to AI Lab in 2016. After 4 years of research and traction with enterprise, we created DataCebo in 2020 with the goal of growing the project. Today, DataCebo is the proud developer of SDV, the largest ecosystem for synthetic data generation & evaluation. It is home to multiple libraries that support synthetic data, including:

• 🔄 Data discovery & transformation. Reverse the transforms to reproduce realistic data.
• 🧠 Multiple machine learning models -- ranging from Copulas to Deep Learning -- to create tabular, multi table and time series data.
• 📊 Measuring quality and privacy of synthetic data, and comparing different synthetic data generation models.

Get started using the SDV package -- a fully integrated solution and your one-stop shop for synthetic data. Or, use the standalone libraries for specific needs.