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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

As more tech companies engage in rigorous economic analyses, we are confronted with a data problem: in-house papers cannot be replicated due to use of sensitive, proprietary, or private data. Readers are left to assume that the obscured…

General Economics · Economics 2020-11-10 Allison Koenecke , Hal Varian

Synthetic data has gained significant momentum thanks to sophisticated machine learning tools that enable the synthesis of high-dimensional datasets. However, many generation techniques do not give the data controller control over what…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Florimond Houssiau , Samuel N. Cohen , Lukasz Szpruch , Owen Daniel , Michaela G. Lawrence , Robin Mitra , Henry Wilde , Callum Mole

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our work is to automatically synthesize labeled datasets that are relevant for a downstream task. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amlan Kar , Aayush Prakash , Ming-Yu Liu , Eric Cameracci , Justin Yuan , Matt Rusiniak , David Acuna , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

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

Faced with the challenges of patient confidentiality and scientific reproducibility, research on machine learning for health is turning towards the conception of synthetic medical databases. This article presents a brief overview of…

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 plays a fundamental role in consolidating markets, services, and products in the digital financial ecosystem. However, the use of real data, especially in the financial context, can lead to privacy risks and access restrictions,…

*Data Synthesis* is a promising way to train a small model with very little labeled data. One approach for data synthesis is to leverage the rich knowledge from large language models to synthesize pseudo training examples for small models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ruida Wang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Mrinmaya Sachan

Access to genomic data is highly regulated due to its sensitive nature. While safeguards are essential, cumbersome data access processes pose a significant barrier to the development of AI methods for genomics. Synthetic data generation can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daniil Filienko , Martine De Cock , Sikha Pentyala

This work presents a systematic benchmark of differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms that can generate tabular data. Utility of the synthetic data is evaluated by measuring whether the synthetic data preserve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuchao Tao , Ryan McKenna , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

We introduce a constraint-programming framework for generating synthetic populations that reproduce target statistics with high precision while enforcing full individual consistency. Unlike data-driven approaches that infer distributions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-09 Thierry Petit , Arnault Pachot

Synthetic data is often positioned as a solution to replace sensitive fixed-size datasets with a source of unlimited matching data, freed from privacy concerns. There has been much progress in synthetic data generation over the last decade,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Graham Cormode , Samuel Maddock , Enayat Ullah , Shripad Gade

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

The increasing adoption of synthetic data in aviation research offers a promising solution to data scarcity and confidentiality challenges. This study investigates the potential of generative models to produce realistic synthetic flight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Karim Aly , Alexei Sharpanskykh

Data is the lifeblood of the modern world, forming a fundamental part of AI, decision-making, and research advances. With increase in interest in data, governments have taken important steps towards a regulated data world, drastically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Sikha Pentyala , Mayana Pereira , Martine De Cock

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

In today's business landscape, organizations need to find the right balance between using their customers' data ethically to power AI solutions and being compliant regarding data privacy and data usage regulations. In this paper, we discuss…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Aditi Godbole

In general, to draw robust conclusions from a dataset, all the analyzed population must be represented on said dataset. Having a dataset that does not fulfill this condition normally leads to selection bias. Additionally, graphs have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Axel Wassington , Sergi Abadal

Synthetic tabular data generation has emerged as a promising method to address limited data availability and privacy concerns. With the sharp increase in the performance of large language models in recent years, researchers have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Reilly Cannon , Nicolette M. Laird , Caesar Vazquez , Andy Lin , Amy Wagler , Tony Chiang