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Access to individual-level health data is essential for gaining new insights and advancing science. In particular, modern methods based on artificial intelligence rely on the availability of and access to large datasets. In the health…

The ability to generate high-fidelity synthetic data is crucial when available (real) data is limited or where privacy and data protection standards allow only for limited use of the given data, e.g., in medical and financial data-sets.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Sanket Kamthe , Samuel Assefa , Marc Deisenroth

Safe and reliable disclosure of information from confidential data is a challenging statistical problem. A common approach considers the generation of synthetic data, to be disclosed instead of the original data. Efficient approaches ought…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-04 Larissa N. A. Martins , Flávio B. Gonçalves , Thais P. Galletti

Generating synthetic residential load data that can accurately represent actual electricity consumption patterns is crucial for effective power system planning and operation. The necessity for synthetic data is underscored by the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xinyu Liang , Ziheng Wang , Hao Wang

Individuals together with their locations & attributes are essential to feed micro-level applied urban models (for example, spatial micro-simulation and agent-based modeling) for policy evaluation. Existed studies on population…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Ying Long , Zhenjiang Shen

The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a synthetic population dataset that is open and realistic and can be used to facilitate understanding the cartographic process and contextualizing the cartographic artifacts. We…

Computation · Statistics 2023-04-04 Yue Lin , Ningchuan Xiao

Network--based epidemic models that account for heterogeneous contact patterns are extensively used to predict and control the diffusion of infectious diseases. We use census and survey data to reconstruct a geo--referenced and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Alessandro Celestini , Francesca Colaiori , Stefano Guarino , Enrico Mastrostefano , Lena Rebecca Zastrow

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

In recent years, computational improvements have allowed for more nuanced, data-driven and geographically explicit agent-based simulations. So far, simulations have struggled to adequately represent the attributes that motivate the actions…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Alba Aguilera , Miquel Albertí , Nardine Osman , Georgina Curto

Location data collected from mobile devices represent mobility behaviors at individual and societal levels. These data have important applications ranging from transportation planning to epidemic modeling. However, issues must be overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Alex Berke , Ronan Doorley , Kent Larson , Esteban Moro

To develop public health intervention models using microsimulations, extensive personal information about inhabitants is needed, such as socio-demographic, economic and health figures. Data confidentiality is an essential characteristic of…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-10 M. A. Nicolaie , Koen Fussenich , Caroline Ameling , Hendriek C. Boshuizen

Sensitive datasets are often underutilized in research and industry due to privacy concerns, limiting the potential of valuable data-driven insights. Synthetic data generation presents a promising solution to address this challenge by…

Computation · Statistics 2026-01-27 Ali Furkan Kalay

Large Language Models (LLMs) have democratized synthetic data generation, which in turn has the potential to simplify and broaden a wide gamut of NLP tasks. Here, we tackle a pervasive problem in synthetic data generation: its generative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Veniamin Veselovsky , Manoel Horta Ribeiro , Akhil Arora , Martin Josifoski , Ashton Anderson , Robert West

Generative Policy-based Models aim to enable a coalition of systems, be they devices or services to adapt according to contextual changes such as environmental factors, user preferences and different tasks whilst adhering to various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-01 Daniel Cunnington , Graham White , Geeth de Mel

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled human-like social simulations at unprecedented scale and fidelity, offering new opportunities for computational social science. A key challenge, however, is the construction of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Zhengyu Hu , Jianxun Lian , Zheyuan Xiao , Max Xiong , Yuxuan Lei , Tianfu Wang , Kaize Ding , Ziang Xiao , Nicholas Jing Yuan , Xing Xie

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

Agent-based models used in scenario planning for transportation and urban planning usually require detailed population information from the base as well as target scenarios. These populations are usually provided by synthesizing fake agents…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Tanay Rastogi , Daniel Jonsson

It is common to define the structure of interactions among a population of agents by a network. Most of agent-based models were shown highly sensitive to that network, so the relevance of simulation results directely depends on the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-04-03 Samuel Thiriot , Jean-Daniel Kant

Access to genomic data is highly regulated due to its sensitive nature. While safeguards are essential, cumbersome data access processes pose a significant barrier to the development of AI methods for genomics. Synthetic data generation can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daniil Filienko , Martine De Cock , Sikha Pentyala

Program synthesis is the task of automatically generating a program consistent with a given specification. A natural way to specify programs is to provide examples of desired input-output behavior, and many current program synthesis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Alexander Suh , Yuval Timen