A latent space is a lower-dimensional representation where an encoder stores highly condensed information about observed data. In a variational autoencoder, a decoder expands that representation and reconstructs the original input. When compression and reconstruction work well, the latent space captures core distributional information that can support generating new data. section 2.3.3
Synthetic tabular data
A tabular workflow can fit SDV's TVAESynthesizer to the 1,000-row German Credit Risk dataset and sample 10,000 additional synthetic rows. The latent representation is the compressed intermediate state behind this generation process. section 2.3.3

















