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Object recognition and object pose estimation in robotic grasping continue to be significant challenges, since building a labelled dataset can be time consuming and financially costly in terms of data collection and annotation. In this…

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The importance of Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) has increased significantly in domains where data quality is poor or access is limited due to privacy and regulatory constraints. One such domain is recruitment, where publicly available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Andrea Iommi , Antonio Mastropietro , Riccardo Guidotti , Anna Monreale , Salvatore Ruggieri

We provide a differentially private algorithm for producing synthetic data simultaneously useful for multiple tasks: marginal queries and multitask machine learning (ML). A key innovation in our algorithm is the ability to directly handle…

Psychological defense mechanisms (PDMs) are unconscious cognitive processes that modulate how individuals perceive and respond to emotional distress. Automatically classifying PDMs from text is clinically valuable but severely hindered by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hoang-Thuy-Duong Vu , Quoc-Cuong Pham , Huy-Hieu Pham

Data augmentation is rapidly gaining attention in machine learning. Synthetic data can be generated by simple transformations or through the data distribution. In the latter case, the main challenge is to estimate the label associated to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Maria Perez-Ortiz , Peter Tino , Rafal Mantiuk , Cesar Hervas-Martinez

Access to real-world healthcare data is limited by stringent privacy regulations and data imbalances, hindering advancements in research and clinical applications. Synthetic data presents a promising solution, yet existing methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Nicholas I-Hsien Kuo , Blanca Gallego , Louisa Jorm

Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

Synthetic data generation is a promising solution to address privacy issues with the distribution of sensitive health data. Recently, diffusion models have set new standards for generative models for different data modalities. Also very…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based models can help in diagnosing COVID-19 from lung CT scans and X-ray images; however, these models require large amounts of data for training and validation. Many researchers studied Generative Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-10 Hazrat Ali , Christer Gronlund , Zubair Shah

This survey reviews how large language models (LLMs) are transforming synthetic training data generation in both natural language and code domains. By producing artificial but task-relevant examples, these models can significantly augment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Mihai Nadas , Laura Diosan , Andreea Tomescu

In recent years, with the rapid advancements in large language models (LLMs), achieving excellent empathetic response capabilities has become a crucial prerequisite. Consequently, managing and understanding empathetic datasets have gained…

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Extreme events, such as market crashes, natural disasters, and pandemics, are rare but catastrophic, often triggering cascading failures across interconnected systems. Accurate prediction and early warning can help minimize losses and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Jingyi Gu , Xuan Zhang , Guiling Wang

High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xuemei Jia , Jiawei Du , Hui Wei , Jun Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zheng Wang

Generative models using neural network have opened a door to large-scale studies for various application domains, especially for studies that suffer from lack of real samples to obtain statistically robust inference. Typically, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Seong Jae Hwang , Zirui Tao , Won Hwa Kim , Vikas Singh

Cataract surgery is a frequently performed procedure that demands automation and advanced assistance systems. However, gathering and annotating data for training such systems is resource intensive. The publicly available data also comprises…

Causal inference is essential for developing and evaluating medical interventions, yet real-world medical datasets are often difficult to access due to regulatory barriers. This makes synthetic data a potentially valuable asset that enables…

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Accessing longitudinal multimodal Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs) is challenging due to privacy concerns, which hinders the use of ML for healthcare applications. Synthetic EHRs generation bypasses the need to share sensitive real…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Recent advances in generating synthetic captions based on audio and related metadata allow using the information contained in natural language as input for other audio tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel method to guide a sound event…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Manu Harju , Annamaria Mesaros

The rise of In-Context Learning (ICL) for universal medical image segmentation has introduced an unprecedented demand for large-scale, diverse datasets for training, exacerbating the long-standing problem of data scarcity. While data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Jiesi Hu , Yanwu Yang , Zhiyu Ye , Chenfei Ye , Hanyang Peng , Jianfeng Cao , Ting Ma

Sequential modelling of high-dimensional data is an important problem that appears in many domains including model-based reinforcement learning and dynamics identification for control. Latent variable models applied to sequential data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Oliver Limoyo , Trevor Ablett , Jonathan Kelly