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Synthetic contact networks are useful for modeling epidemic spread and social transmission, but data to infer realistic contact patterns that take account of assortative connections at the geographic and economic levels is limited. We…

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As more tech companies engage in rigorous economic analyses, we are confronted with a data problem: in-house papers cannot be replicated due to use of sensitive, proprietary, or private data. Readers are left to assume that the obscured…

General Economics · Economics 2020-11-10 Allison Koenecke , Hal Varian

Synthetic data generation is an appealing tool for augmenting and enriching datasets, playing a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Not only does synthetic data help build robust AI/ML datasets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 José Pulido , Francesc Wilhelmi , Sergio Fortes , Alfonso Fernández-Durán , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Raquel Barco

Recognizing pain in video is crucial for improving patient-computer interaction systems, yet traditional data collection in this domain raises significant ethical and logistical challenges. This study introduces a novel approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Jonas Nasimzada , Jens Kleesiek , Ken Herrmann , Alina Roitberg , Constantin Seibold

Datasets of different characteristics are needed by the research community for experimental purposes. However, real data may be difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns. Moreover, real data may not meet specific characteristics which are…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Vanessa Ayala-Rivera , Patrick McDonagh , Thomas Cerqueus , Liam Murphy

Making evidence based decisions requires data. However for real-world applications, the privacy of data is critical. Using synthetic data which reflects certain statistical properties of the original data preserves the privacy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Varun Chandrasekaran , Darren Edge , Somesh Jha , Amit Sharma , Cheng Zhang , Shruti Tople

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

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

The protection of private information is of vital importance in data-driven research, business, and government. The conflict between privacy and utility has triggered intensive research in the computer science and statistics communities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Synthetic data algorithms are widely employed in industries to generate artificial data for downstream learning tasks. While existing research primarily focuses on empirically evaluating utility of synthetic data, its theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-04 Shirong Xu , Will Wei Sun , Guang Cheng

Clinical time series data from electronic health records and medical registries offer unprecedented opportunities to understand patient trajectories and inform medical decision-making. However, leveraging such data presents significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Muhammad Aslanimoghanloo , Ahmed ElGazzar , Marcel van Gerven

Artificial Intelligence and digital health have the potential to transform global health. However, having access to representative data to test and validate algorithms in realistic production environments is essential. We introduce…

Synthetic data adoption in healthcare is driven by privacy concerns, data access limitations, and high annotation costs. We explore synthetic Prolonged Exposure (PE) therapy conversations for PTSD as a scalable alternative for training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Suhas BN , Dominik Mattioli , Saeed Abdullah , Rosa I. Arriaga , Chris W. Wiese , Andrew M. Sherrill

Big data analysis poses the dual problem of privacy preservation and utility, i.e., how accurate data analyses remain after transforming original data in order to protect the privacy of the individuals that the data is about - and whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Md Sakib Nizam Khan , Niklas Reje , Sonja Buchegger

Heterogeneous data from multiple populations, sub-groups, or sources is often represented as a ``mixture model'' with a single latent class influencing all of the observed covariates. Heterogeneity can be resolved at multiple levels by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Bijan Mazaheri , Chandler Squires , Caroline Uhler

Clinical Question Answering (QA) systems enable doctors to quickly access patient information from electronic health records (EHRs). However, training these systems requires significant annotated data, which is limited due to the expertise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fan Bai , Keith Harrigian , Joel Stremmel , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Generating synthetic Electronic Health Records (EHRs) offers significant potential for data augmentation, privacy-preserving data sharing, and improving machine learning model training. We propose a novel tokenization strategy tailored for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Hojjat Karami , David Atienza , Anisoara Ionescu

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

$\textbf{Background:}$ At the onset of a pandemic, such as COVID-19, data with proper labeling/attributes corresponding to the new disease might be unavailable or sparse. Machine Learning (ML) models trained with the available data, which…

This article describes techniques employed in the production of a synthetic dataset of driver telematics emulated from a similar real insurance dataset. The synthetic dataset generated has 100,000 policies that included observations about…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-02 Banghee So , Jean-Philippe Boucher , Emiliano A. Valdez