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Synthetic data and simulators have the potential to markedly improve the performance and robustness of recommendation systems. These approaches have already had a beneficial impact in other machine-learning driven fields. We identify and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Adam Lesnikowski , Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Sara Rabhi , Karl Byleen-Higley

Data stewards seeking to provide access to large-scale social science data face a difficult challenge. They have to share data in ways that protect privacy and confidentiality, are informative for many analyses and purposes, and are…

Synthetic data generation is integral to ML pipelines, e.g., to augment training data, replace sensitive information, and even to power advanced platforms like DeepSeek. While LLMs fine-tuned for synthetic data generation are gaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Shengzhe Xu , Cho-Ting Lee , Mandar Sharma , Raquib Bin Yousuf , Nikhil Muralidhar , Naren Ramakrishnan

We present SynthTextEval, a toolkit for conducting comprehensive evaluations of synthetic text. The fluency of large language model (LLM) outputs has made synthetic text potentially viable for numerous applications, such as reducing the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Krithika Ramesh , Daniel Smolyak , Zihao Zhao , Nupoor Gandhi , Ritu Agarwal , Margrét Bjarnadóttir , Anjalie Field

The use of synthetic data in health applications raises privacy concerns, yet the lack of open frameworks for privacy evaluations has slowed its adoption. A major challenge is the absence of accessible benchmark datasets for evaluating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bing Hu , Yixin Li , Asma Bahamyirou , Helen Chen

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

Data synthesis has been advocated as an important approach for utilizing data while protecting data privacy. In recent years, a plethora of tabular data synthesis algorithms (i.e., synthesizers) have been proposed. Some synthesizers satisfy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuntao Du , Ninghui Li

Synthetic data generation is gaining increasing popularity in different computer vision applications. Existing state-of-the-art face recognition models are trained using large-scale face datasets, which are crawled from the Internet and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Sharing sensitive data is vital in enabling many modern data analysis and machine learning tasks. However, current methods for data release are insufficiently accurate or granular to provide meaningful utility, and they carry a high risk of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Teddy Cunningham , Graham Cormode , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Generating new samples from data sets can mitigate extra expensive operations, increased invasive procedures, and mitigate privacy issues. These novel samples that are statistically robust can be used as a temporary and intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 David Banh , Alan Huang

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

Exploiting the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, showcased by ChatGPT and DALL-E, in real-world applications necessitates vast, domain-specific, and publicly accessible datasets. Unfortunately, the scarcity of such datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Cyril Picard , Jürg Schiffmann , Faez Ahmed

The nuclear industry possesses a wealth of valuable information locked away in unstructured text data. This data, however, is not readily usable for advanced Large Language Model (LLM) applications that require clean, structured…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Muhammad Anwar , Daniel Lau , Mishca de Costa , Issam Hammad

The use of synthetic data has emerged as an essential tool in Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) research and applications, providing advantages for optimization of acquisition, software validation, deep learning applications, and…

The evaluation of synthetic data generation is crucial, especially in the retail sector where data accuracy is paramount. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for assessing synthetic retail data, focusing on fidelity, utility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Xia , Chi-Hua Wang , Joshua Mabry , Guang Cheng

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

Synthetic images generated from deep generative models have the potential to address data scarcity and data privacy issues. The selection of synthesis models is mostly based on image quality measurements, and most researchers favor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Xiaodan Xing , Federico Felder , Yang Nan , Giorgos Papanastasiou , Walsh Simon , Guang Yang

Strategies that include the generation of synthetic data are beginning to be viable as obtaining real data can be logistically complicated, very expensive or slow. Not only the capture of the data can lead to complications, but also its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Paola Natalia Canas , Juan Diego Ortega , Marcos Nieto , Oihana Otaegui

Real-world data often exhibits bias, imbalance, and privacy risks. Synthetic datasets have emerged to address these issues. This paradigm relies on generative AI models to generate unbiased, privacy-preserving data while maintaining…

Our ability to synthesize sensory data that preserves specific statistical properties of the real data has had tremendous implications on data privacy and big data analytics. The synthetic data can be used as a substitute for selective real…

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