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Generative models have gained significant attention for their ability to produce realistic synthetic data that supplements the quantity of real-world datasets. While recent studies show performance improvements in wireless sensing tasks by…

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This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation approach to hide specific information in the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Manel Slokom , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic

The emergence of synthetic data for privacy protection, training data generation, or simply convenient access to quasi-realistic data in any shape or volume complicates the concept of ground truth. Synthetic data mimic real-world…

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In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

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This study investigates the consequences of training language models on synthetic data generated by their predecessors, an increasingly prevalent practice given the prominence of powerful generative models. Diverging from the usual emphasis…

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Neural networks need big annotated datasets for training. However, manual annotation can be too expensive or even unfeasible for certain tasks, like multi-person 2D pose estimation with severe occlusions. A remedy for this is synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 David T. Hoffmann , Dimitrios Tzionas , Micheal J. Black , Siyu Tang

It is commonly believed that knowledge of syntactic structure should improve language modeling. However, effectively and computationally efficiently incorporating syntactic structure into neural language models has been a challenging topic.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Wenyu Du , Zhouhan Lin , Yikang Shen , Timothy J. O'Donnell , Yoshua Bengio , Yue Zhang

As observational datasets become larger and more complex, so too are the questions being asked of these data. Data simulations, i.e., synthetic data with properties (pixelization, noise, PSF, artifacts, etc.) akin to real data, are…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Molly S. Peeples , Bjorn Emonts , Mark Kyprianou , Matthew T. Penny , Gregory F. Snyder , Christopher C. Stark , Michael Troxel , Neil T. Zimmerman , John ZuHone

The potential of synthetic data in text-to-speech (TTS) model training has gained increasing attention, yet its rationality and effectiveness require systematic validation. In this study, we systematically investigate the feasibility of…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Tingxiao Zhou , Leying Zhang , Zhengyang Chen , Yanmin Qian

Recent advances in deep learning have significantly increased the performance of face recognition systems. The performance and reliability of these models depend heavily on the amount and quality of the training data. However, the…

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Machine learning has the potential to assist many communities in using the large datasets that are becoming more and more available. Unfortunately, much of that potential is not being realized because it would require sharing data in a way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 James Jordon , Jinsung Yoon , Mihaela van der Schaar

We draw a formal connection between using synthetic training data to optimize neural network parameters and approximate, Bayesian, model-based reasoning. In particular, training a neural network using synthetic data can be viewed as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-03 Tuan Anh Le , Atilim Gunes Baydin , Robert Zinkov , Frank Wood

Synthetic data is an increasingly popular tool for training deep learning models, especially in computer vision but also in other areas. In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the various directions in the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sergey I. Nikolenko

The collection and curation of high-quality training data is crucial for developing text classification models with superior performance, but it is often associated with significant costs and time investment. Researchers have recently…

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Synthetic image data generation represents a promising avenue for training deep learning models, particularly in the realm of transfer learning, where obtaining real images within a specific domain can be prohibitively expensive due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Yuhang Li , Xin Dong , Chen Chen , Jingtao Li , Yuxin Wen , Michael Spranger , Lingjuan Lyu

Synthetic data has transformed language model training, yet its role in time series forecasting remains poorly understood. We present a large-scale empirical study: nine experiment groups, 4,218 runs systematically evaluating synthetic time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Hugo Cazaux , Eyjólfur Ingi Ásgeirsson , Hlynur Stefánsson

Robotic mobility aids for blind and low-vision (BLV) individuals rely heavily on deep learning-based vision models specialized for various navigational tasks. However, the performance of these models is often constrained by the availability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Hochul Hwang , Krisha Adhikari , Satya Shodhaka , Donghyun Kim

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate synthetic data for model training has become increasingly popular in recent years. While LLMs are capable of producing realistic training data, the effectiveness of data generation is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yinheng Li , Rogerio Bonatti , Sara Abdali , Justin Wagle , Kazuhito Koishida

With the advent of generative modeling techniques, synthetic data and its use has penetrated across various domains from unstructured data such as image, text to structured dataset modeling healthcare outcome, risk decisioning in financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Aman Gupta , Deepak Bhatt , Anubha Pandey