Systems and methods of processing diverse data sets with a neural network to generate synthesized data sets for predicting a target metric

Abstract

A computer system receives and stores data sets, a target metric, and a parameter that indicates a desired number of synthesized data sets. A hardware processor performs operations where each processing node of a neural network weights input data set values, determines gating operations to select processing operations, and generates a node output by applying the gating operations to weighted input data set values. The neural network is trained by modifying the gating operations, the input weight values, and the node output weight value until convergence. One or more nodes is selected having a larger magnitude node output weight value. Selected input data set values are processed with selected processing nodes using a selected subset of gating operations to produce the desired number of synthesized data sets. Names are generated for each of the synthesized data sets.