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This paper proposes a new method to generate synthetic data sets based on copula models. Our goal is to produce surrogate data resembling real data in terms of marginal and joint distributions. We present a complete and reliable algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Regis Houssou , Mihai-Cezar Augustin , Efstratios Rappos , Vivien Bonvin , Stephan Robert-Nicoud

Document semantic segmentation is a promising avenue that can facilitate document analysis tasks, including optical character recognition (OCR), form classification, and document editing. Although several synthetic datasets have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Taylor Archibald , Tony Martinez

We present SynthTextEval, a toolkit for conducting comprehensive evaluations of synthetic text. The fluency of large language model (LLM) outputs has made synthetic text potentially viable for numerous applications, such as reducing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Krithika Ramesh , Daniel Smolyak , Zihao Zhao , Nupoor Gandhi , Ritu Agarwal , Margrét Bjarnadóttir , Anjalie Field

While the generation of document layouts has been extensively explored, comprehensive document generation encompassing both layout and content presents a more complex challenge. This paper delves into this advanced domain, proposing a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Sanket Biswas , Rajiv Jain , Vlad I. Morariu , Jiuxiang Gu , Puneet Mathur , Curtis Wigington , Tong Sun , Josep Lladós

We are presenting a set of multilingual text analysis tools that can help analysts in any field to explore large document collections quickly in order to determine whether the documents contain information of interest, and to find the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Camelia Ignat , Bruno Pouliquen , Ralf Steinberger , Tomaz Erjavec

Although many AI applications of interest require specialized multi-modal models, relevant data to train such models is inherently scarce or inaccessible. Filling these gaps with human annotators is prohibitively expensive, error-prone, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tim R. Davidson , Benoit Seguin , Enrico Bacis , Cesar Ilharco , Hamza Harkous

Recently, there has been growing interest in developing learning-based methods to detect and utilize salient semi-global or global structures, such as junctions, lines, planes, cuboids, smooth surfaces, and all types of symmetries, for 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Jia Zheng , Junfei Zhang , Jing Li , Rui Tang , Shenghua Gao , Zihan Zhou

The pursuit of diverse, complex, and large-scale instruction data is crucial for automatically aligning large language models (LLMs). While there are methods capable of generating synthetic instructions at scale, they either suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chiwei Zhu , Benfeng Xu , Xiaorui Wang , Zhendong Mao

Software documentation is an essential but labor intensive task that often requires a dedicated team of developers to ensure coverage and accuracy. Good documentation will help shorten the development cycle and improve the overall team…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Thomas Zheng , Jeff Shaw , Sergey Kozlov

Supervised text models are a valuable tool for political scientists but present several obstacles to their use, including the expense of hand-labeling documents, the difficulty of retrieving rare relevant documents for annotation, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Andrew Halterman

This paper presents a novel approach to generate synthetic dataset for handwritten word recognition systems. It is difficult to recognize handwritten scripts for which sufficient training data is not readily available or it may be expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-18 Partha Pratim Roy , Akash Mohta , Bidyut B. Chaudhuri

In this paper, we demonstrate how a generative model can be used to build a better recognizer through the control of content and style. We are building an online handwriting recognizer from a modest amount of training samples. By training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Martin Bresler , Youssouf Chherawala , Adrien Delaye , Thomas Deselaers , Ryan Dixon , Oncel Tuzel

The financial services industry perpetually processes an overwhelming amount of complex data. Digital reports are often created based on tedious manual analysis as well as visualization of the underlying trends and characteristics of data.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Vineeth Ravi , Selim Amrouni , Andrea Stefanucci , Armineh Nourbakhsh , Prashant Reddy , Manuela Veloso

Synthetic data is a standard component in training large language models, yet systematic comparisons across design dimensions, including rephrasing strategy, generator model, and source data, remain absent. We conduct extensive controlled…

Developing document understanding models at enterprise scale requires large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets spanning a wide range of document types. However, collecting such data is prohibitively expensive due to privacy constraints,…

Although humans engaged in face-to-face conversation simultaneously communicate both verbally and non-verbally, methods for joint and unified synthesis of speech audio and co-speech 3D gesture motion from text are a new and emerging field.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Shivam Mehta , Anna Deichler , Jim O'Regan , Birger Moëll , Jonas Beskow , Gustav Eje Henter , Simon Alexanderson

Honeyfiles are security assets designed to attract and detect intruders on compromised systems. Honeyfiles are a type of honeypot that mimic real, sensitive documents, creating the illusion of the presence of valuable data. Interaction with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 David D. Nguyen , David Liebowitz , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere , Sharif Abuadbba

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

We present an end-to-end, multimodal, fully convolutional network for extracting semantic structures from document images. We consider document semantic structure extraction as a pixel-wise segmentation task, and propose a unified model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Xiao Yang , Ersin Yumer , Paul Asente , Mike Kraley , Daniel Kifer , C. Lee Giles

Recent approaches in skill matching, employing synthetic training data for classification or similarity model training, have shown promising results, reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive annotations. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Antoine Magron , Anna Dai , Mike Zhang , Syrielle Montariol , Antoine Bosselut