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Generative recommendation plays a crucial role in personalized systems, predicting users' future interactions from their historical behavior sequences. A critical yet underexplored factor in training these models is data augmentation, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Geon Lee , Bhuvesh Kumar , Clark Mingxuan Ju , Tong Zhao , Kijung Shin , Neil Shah , Liam Collins

Modern computer vision systems increasingly encounter performance limitations in data-scarce domains, where collecting large-scale, high-quality labeled data is costly or impractical. While controllable diffusion models enable scalable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yukang Shen

Deep generative models have become useful for synthetic data generation, particularly population synthesis. The models implicitly learn the probability distribution of a dataset and can draw samples from a distribution. Several models have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Daniel Opoku Mensah , Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq

Recommendation systems make predictions chiefly based on users' historical interaction data (e.g., items previously clicked or purchased). There is a risk of privacy leakage when collecting the users' behavior data for building the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Fan Liu , Zhiyong Cheng , Huilin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Generating realistic synthetic populations is essential for agent-based models (ABM) in transportation and urban planning. Current methods face two major limitations. First, many rely on a single dataset or follow a sequential data fusion…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Farbod Abbasi , Zachary Patterson , Bilal Farooq

Tabular data is common yet typically incomplete, small in volume, and access-restricted due to privacy concerns. Synthetic data generation offers potential solutions. Many metrics exist for evaluating the quality of synthetic tabular data;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang , Baxter Eaves , Michael Schmidt , Ken Swanson , Patrick Shafto

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the popularity of Machine Learning (ML), applied across diverse domains. However, progress is impeded by the scarcity of training data due to expensive acquisition and privacy legislation. Synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 André Bauer , Simon Trapp , Michael Stenger , Robert Leppich , Samuel Kounev , Mark Leznik , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

The recent development of multi-agent simulations brings about a need for population synthesis. It is a task of reconstructing the entire population from a sampling survey of limited size (1% or so), supplying the initial conditions from…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Naoki Hamada , Katsumi Homma , Hiroyuki Higuchi , Hideyuki Kikuchi

Generation of realistic synthetic data has garnered considerable attention in recent years, particularly in the health research domain due to its utility in, for instance, sharing data while protecting patient privacy or determining optimal…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-01-30 Niki Z. Petrakos , Erica E. M. Moodie , Nicolas Savy

Synthetic data generation, leveraging generative machine learning techniques, offers a promising approach to mitigating privacy concerns associated with real-world data usage. Synthetic data closely resembles real-world data while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Weijie Niu , Alberto Huertas Celdran , Karoline Siarsky , Burkhard Stiller

Introduction: The amount of data generated by original research is growing exponentially. Publicly releasing them is recommended to comply with the Open Science principles. However, data collected from human participants cannot be released…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Rémy Chapelle , Bruno Falissard

Synthesizing consistent and photorealistic 3D scenes is an open problem in computer vision. Video diffusion models generate impressive videos but cannot directly synthesize 3D representations, i.e., lack 3D consistency in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Katja Schwarz , Norman Mueller , Peter Kontschieder

Generative modeling aims at producing new datapoints whose statistical properties resemble the ones in a training dataset. In recent years, there has been a burst of machine learning techniques and settings that can achieve this goal with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Samantha J. Fournier , Pierfrancesco Urbani

Agent-based transportation modelling has become the standard to simulate travel behaviour, mobility choices and activity preferences using disaggregate travel demand data for entire populations, data that are not typically readily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq , Zachary Paterson

Conditional generative models map input variables to complex, high-dimensional distributions, enabling realistic sample generation in a diverse set of domains. A critical challenge with these models is the absence of calibrated uncertainty,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Qidong Yang , Qianyu Julie Zhu , Jonathan Giezendanner , Youssef Marzouk , Stephen Bates , Sherrie Wang

Synthetic network traffic generation has emerged as a promising alternative for various data-driven applications in the networking domain. It enables the creation of synthetic data that preserves real-world characteristics while addressing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Nirhoshan Sivaroopan , Kaushitha Silva , Chamara Madarasingha , Thilini Dahanayaka , Guillaume Jourjon , Anura Jayasumana , Kanchana Thilakarathna

Aggregated data is commonplace in areas such as epidemiology and demography. For example, census data for a population is usually given as averages defined over time periods or spatial resolutions (cities, regions or countries). In this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-02-20 Fariba Yousefi , Michael Thomas Smith , Mauricio A. Álvarez

We propose a probabilistic framework for developing computational models of biological neural systems. In this framework, physiological recordings are viewed as discrete-time partial observations of an underlying continuous-time stochastic…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-10 Ahmed ElGazzar , Marcel van Gerven

We compare a sample-free method proposed by Gargiulo et al. (2010) and a sample-based method proposed by Ye et al. (2009) for generating a synthetic population, organised in households, from various statistics. We generate a reference…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-27 Maxime Lenormand , Guillaume Deffuant

Synthetic data is increasingly critical for contact centers, where privacy constraints and data scarcity limit the availability of real conversations. However, generating synthetic dialogues that are realistic and useful for downstream…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Rishikesh Devanathan , Varun Nathan , Ayush Kumar