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Synthesizing realistic medical images provides a feasible solution to the shortage of training data in deep learning based medical image recognition systems. However, the quality control of synthetic images for data augmentation purposes is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Jiarong Ye , Yuan Xue , L. Rodney Long , Sameer Antani , Zhiyun Xue , Keith Cheng , Xiaolei Huang

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

Multimodal self-supervised representation learning has consistently proven to be a highly effective method in medical image analysis, offering strong task performance and producing biologically informed insights. However, these methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Lucas Farndale , Chris Walsh , Robert Insall , Ke Yuan

Natural Language Processing (NLP) has undergone transformative changes with the advent of deep learning methodologies. One challenge persistently confronting researchers is the scarcity of high-quality, annotated datasets that drive these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Sia Gholami , Marwan Omar

Nowadays, the use of synthetic data has gained popularity as a cost-efficient strategy for enhancing data augmentation for improving machine learning models performance as well as addressing concerns related to sensitive data privacy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ioannis E. Livieris , Nikos Alimpertis , George Domalis , Dimitris Tsakalidis

Recently, the use of synthetic training data has been on the rise as it offers correctly labelled datasets at a lower cost. The downside of this technique is that the so-called domain gap between the real target images and synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Bram Vanherle , Steven Moonen , Frank Van Reeth , Nick Michiels

Histopathology image classification is crucial for the accurate identification and diagnosis of various diseases but requires large and diverse datasets. Obtaining such datasets, however, is often costly and time-consuming due to the need…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Leire Benito-Del-Valle , Aitor Alvarez-Gila , Itziar Eguskiza , Cristina L. Saratxaga

Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

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 generation of synthetic data is an essential tool to study complex systems, allowing for example to test models of these in precisely controlled settings, or to parametrize simulation models when data is missing. This paper focuses on…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-25 Juste Raimbault

There is significant growth and interest in the use of synthetic data as an enabler for machine learning in environments where the release of real data is restricted due to privacy or availability constraints. Despite a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Harrison Wilde , Jack Jewson , Sebastian Vollmer , Chris Holmes

A long-standing challenge in developing machine learning approaches has been the lack of high-quality labeled data. Recently, models trained with purely synthetic data, here termed synthetic clones, generated using large-scale pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Krishnakant Singh , Thanush Navaratnam , Jannik Holmer , Simone Schaub-Meyer , Stefan Roth

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

Many ground-breaking advancements in machine learning can be attributed to the availability of a large volume of rich data. Unfortunately, many large-scale datasets are highly sensitive, such as healthcare data, and are not widely available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 James Jordon , Alan Wilson , Mihaela van der Schaar

Within the evolving landscape of deep learning, the dilemma of data quantity and quality has been a long-standing problem. The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a data-centric solution to alleviate the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lin Long , Rui Wang , Ruixuan Xiao , Junbo Zhao , Xiao Ding , Gang Chen , Haobo Wang

Deep learning approaches require enough training samples to perform well, but it is a challenge to collect enough real training data and label them manually. In this letter, we propose the use of realistic synthetic data with a wide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Weixing Liu , Jun Liu , Bin Luo

Machine-learning models are increasingly used to predict properties of atoms in chemical systems. There have been major advances in developing descriptors and regression frameworks for this task, typically starting from (relatively) small…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 John L. A. Gardner , Zoé Faure Beaulieu , Volker L. Deringer

This paper presents an improved scheme for the generation and adaption of synthetic images for the training of deep Convolutional Neural Networks(CNNs) to perform the object detection task in smart vending machines. While generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Kai Wang , Fuyuan Shi , Wenqi Wang , Yibing Nan , Shiguo Lian

Machine learning systems require representations of the real world for training and testing - they require data, and lots of it. Collecting data at scale has logistical and ethical challenges, and synthetic data promises a solution to these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Cedric Deslandes Whitney , Justin Norman

Testing in production-like test environments is an essential part of quality assurance processes in many industries. Provisioning of such test environments, for information-intensive services, involves setting up databases that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Razieh Behjati , Erik Arisholm , Chao Tan , Margrethe M. Bedregal