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With the advent of AI agents, automatic scientific discovery has become a tenable goal. Many recent works scaffold agentic systems that can perform machine learning research, but don't offer a principled way to train such agents -- and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ziyang Cai , Harkirat Behl

Recent generative models produce images with a level of authenticity that makes them nearly indistinguishable from real photos and artwork. Potential harmful use cases of these models, necessitate the creation of robust synthetic image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Delyan Boychev , Radostin Cholakov

We present a new weakly supervised learning-based method for generating novel category-specific 3D shapes from unoccluded image collections. Our method is weakly supervised and only requires silhouette annotations from unoccluded,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Xiao Li , Yue Dong , Pieter Peers , Xin Tong

Recent progress in material data mining has been driven by high-capacity models trained on large datasets. However, collecting experimental data (real data) has been extremely costly since the amount of human effort and expertise required.…

Scalable training data generation is a critical problem in deep learning. We propose PennSyn2Real - a photo-realistic synthetic dataset consisting of more than 100,000 4K images of more than 20 types of micro aerial vehicles (MAVs). The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Ty Nguyen , Ian D. Miller , Avi Cohen , Dinesh Thakur , Shashank Prasad , Camillo J. Taylor , Pratik Chaudrahi , Vijay Kumar

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial topic for financial institutions, driven by multiple factors, such as privacy protection and data augmentation. Many algorithms have been proposed for synthetic data generation but reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Fadi Hamad , Saheed Obitayo , Vamsi K. Potluru

Synthetic data has emerged as a cost-effective alternative to real data for training artificial neural networks (ANN). However, the disparity between synthetic and real data results in a domain gap. That gap leads to poor performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Paul Wachter , Lukas Niehaus , Julius Schöning

This paper introduces a new generative deep learning network for human motion synthesis and control. Our key idea is to combine recurrent neural networks (RNNs) and adversarial training for human motion modeling. We first describe an…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-25 Zhiyong Wang , Jinxiang Chai , Shihong Xia

Due to the outstanding capability for data generation, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have attracted considerable attention in unsupervised learning. However, training GANs is difficult, since the training distribution is dynamic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Haozhe Liu , Wentian Zhang , Bing Li , Haoqian Wu , Nanjun He , Yawen Huang , Yuexiang Li , Bernard Ghanem , Yefeng Zheng

Models trained on synthetic images often face degraded generalization to real data. As a convention, these models are often initialized with ImageNet pre-trained representation. Yet the role of ImageNet knowledge is seldom discussed despite…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Wuyang Chen , Zhiding Yu , Zhangyang Wang , Anima Anandkumar

The state of the art in human-centric computer vision achieves high accuracy and robustness across a diverse range of tasks. The most effective models in this domain have billions of parameters, thus requiring extremely large datasets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Fatemeh Saleh , Sadegh Aliakbarian , Charlie Hewitt , Lohit Petikam , Xiao-Xian , Antonio Criminisi , Thomas J. Cashman , Tadas Baltrušaitis

Malware attacks have a significant negative impact on organizations of varied scales in the field of cybersecurity. Recently, malware researchers have increasingly turned to machine learning techniques to combat sophisticated obfuscation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Tiffany Bao , Kylie Trousil , Quang Duy Tran , Fabio Di Troia , Younghee Park

Modern vision models excel at general purpose downstream tasks. It is unclear, however, how they may be used for personalized vision tasks, which are both fine-grained and data-scarce. Recent works have successfully applied synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Shobhita Sundaram , Julia Chae , Yonglong Tian , Sara Beery , Phillip Isola

Reducing the burden of data generation and annotation remains a major challenge for the cost-effective deployment of machine learning in industrial and robotics settings. While synthetic rendering is a promising solution, bridging the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jose Moises Araya-Martinez , Adrián Sanchis Reig , Gautham Mohan , Sarvenaz Sardari , Jens Lambrecht , Jörg Krüger

The availability of large image data sets has been a crucial factor in the success of deep learning-based classification and detection methods. While data sets for everyday objects are widely available, data for specific industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Matthew Z. Wong , Kiyohito Kunii , Max Baylis , Wai Hong Ong , Pavel Kroupa , Swen Koller

Training a deep network to perform semantic segmentation requires large amounts of labeled data. To alleviate the manual effort of annotating real images, researchers have investigated the use of synthetic data, which can be labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Fatemeh Sadat Saleh , Mohammad Sadegh Aliakbarian , Mathieu Salzmann , Lars Petersson , Jose M. Alvarez

Multi-object grasping is a challenging task. It is important for energy and cost-efficient operation of industrial crane manipulators, such as those used to collect tree logs from the forest floor and on forest machines. In this work, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Arvid Fälldin , Tommy Löfstedt , Tobias Semberg , Erik Wallin , Martin Servin

Using huge training datasets can be costly and inconvenient. This article explores various data distillation techniques that can reduce the amount of data required to successfully train deep networks. Inspired by recent ideas, we suggest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Dmitry Medvedev , Alexander D'yakonov

Most approaches to dense anomaly detection rely on generative modeling or on discriminative methods that train with negative data. We consider a recent hybrid method that optimizes the same shared representation according to cross-entropy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Anja Delić , Matej Grcić , Siniša Šegvić

Previous text-to-image synthesis algorithms typically use explicit textual instructions to generate/manipulate images accurately, but they have difficulty adapting to guidance in the form of coarsely matched texts. In this work, we attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengyao Cui , Zhe Zhu , Shao-Ping Lu , Yulu Yang