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Recent progress in developing general purpose text embedders has been driven by training on ever-growing corpora of synthetic LLM-generated data. Nonetheless, no publicly available synthetic dataset exists, posing a barrier to studying its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jacob Mitchell Springer , Vaibhav Adlakha , Siva Reddy , Aditi Raghunathan , Marius Mosbach

Recommender systems are significant to help people deal with the world of information explosion and overload. In this Letter, we develop a general framework named self-consistent refinement and implement it be embedding two representative…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2008-06-10 Jie Ren , Tao Zhou , Yi-Cheng Zhang

This survey paper conducts a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and contemporary landscape of recommendation systems, which have been extensively incorporated across a myriad of web applications. It delves into the progression of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Ziyuan Xia , Anchen Sun , Jingyi Xu , Yuanzhe Peng , Rui Ma , Minghui Cheng

Many of today's online services provide personalized recommendations to their users. Such recommendations are typically designed to serve certain user needs, e.g., to quickly find relevant content in situations of information overload.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Alvise De Biasio , Nicolò Navarin , Dietmar Jannach

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new analytical framework dedicated to measuring performance of recommender systems. The standard approach is to assess the quality of a system by means of accuracy related statistics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-10-29 Szymon Chojnacki , Mieczysław Kłopotek

Synthetic data serves as an alternative in training machine learning models, particularly when real-world data is limited or inaccessible. However, ensuring that synthetic data mirrors the complex nuances of real-world data is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lasse Hansen , Nabeel Seedat , Mihaela van der Schaar , Andrija Petrovic

In this article, we will research the Recommender System's implementation about how it works and the algorithms used. We will explain the Recommender System's algorithms based on mathematical principles, and find feasible methods for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Fu Chen , Junkang Zou , Lingfeng Zhou , Zekai Xu , Zhenyu Wu

As privacy regulations become more stringent and access to real-world data becomes increasingly constrained, synthetic data generation has emerged as a vital solution, especially for tabular datasets, which are central to domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Raju Challagundla , Mohsen Dorodchi , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee

Sports recommender systems receive an increasing attention due to their potential of fostering healthy living, improving personal well-being, and increasing performances in sport. These systems support people in sports, for example, by the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Alexander Felfernig , Manfred Wundara , Thi Ngoc Trang Tran , Viet-Man Le , Sebastian Lubos , Seda Polat-Erdeniz

Information access systems, such as search engines, recommender systems, and conversational assistants, have become integral to our daily lives as they help us satisfy our information needs. However, evaluating the effectiveness of these…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Krisztian Balog , ChengXiang Zhai

As perception models continue to develop, the need for large-scale datasets increases. However, data annotation remains far too expensive to effectively scale and meet the demand. Synthetic datasets provide a solution to boost model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Arpit Jadon , Haoran Wang , Phillip Thomas , Michael Stanley , S. Nathaniel Cibik , Rachel Laurat , Omar Maher , Lukas Hoyer , Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai

The potential of synthetic data to replace real data creates a huge demand for synthetic data in data-hungry AI. This potential is even greater when synthetic data is used for training along with a small number of real images from domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Hyungtae Lee , Yan Zhang , Heesung Kwon , Shuvra S. Bhattacharrya

In the rapidly evolving field of artificial intelligence, the creation and utilization of synthetic datasets have become increasingly significant. This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of synthetic data, particularly emphasizing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Shuang Hao , Wenfeng Han , Tao Jiang , Yiping Li , Haonan Wu , Chunlin Zhong , Zhangjun Zhou , He Tang

Privacy poses a significant obstacle to the progress of learning analytics (LA), presenting challenges like inadequate anonymization and data misuse that current solutions struggle to address. Synthetic data emerges as a potential remedy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Qinyi Liu , Mohammad Khalil , Ronas Shakya , Jelena Jovanovic

Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting between traditional resampling techniques and modern deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa , Ashfaq Ali Shafin , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

We propose RecSim, a configurable platform for authoring simulation environments for recommender systems (RSs) that naturally supports sequential interaction with users. RecSim allows the creation of new environments that reflect particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Eugene Ie , Chih-wei Hsu , Martin Mladenov , Vihan Jain , Sanmit Narvekar , Jing Wang , Rui Wu , Craig Boutilier

Session-based recommender systems typically focus on using only the triplet (user_id, timestamp, item_id) to make predictions of users' next actions. In this paper, we aim to utilize side information to help recommender systems catch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yukun Jiang , Leo Guo , Xinyi Chen , Jing Xi Liu

Synthetic Data is not new, but recent advances in Generative AI have raised interest in expanding the research toolbox, creating new opportunities and risks. This article provides a taxonomy of the full breadth of the Synthetic Data domain.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Richard Timpone , Yongwei Yang

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…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Dietmar Offenhuber

The HCI community commonly evaluates decision support systems based on whether they improve task performance or promote appropriate user reliance. In this work, we look beyond decision outcomes to examine the process through which users…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Michaela Benk , Tim Miller