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Generative models can serve as surrogates for some real data sources by creating synthetic training datasets, but in doing so they may transfer biases to downstream tasks. We focus on protecting quality and diversity when generating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Allen Chang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Serena Booth , Maja J. Matarić , Stefanos Nikolaidis

Background: Heart failure (HF) research is constrained by limited access to large, shareable datasets due to privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to overcome these challenges…

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) are versatile tools for learning data representations while adequately incorporating domain knowledge such as the specification of conditional probability distributions. Recently proposed DGMs tackle the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Romain Lopez , Jan-Christian Huetter , Ehsan Hajiramezanali , Jonathan Pritchard , Aviv Regev

In this paper, we provide a method to generate synthetic population at various administrative levels for a country like India. This synthetic population is created using machine learning and statistical methods applied to survey data such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bhavesh Neekhra , Kshitij Kapoor , Debayan Gupta

Evaluating AI systems that interact with humans requires understanding their behavior across diverse user populations, but collecting representative human data is often expensive or infeasible, particularly for novel technologies or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Davide Paglieri , Logan Cross , William A. Cunningham , Joel Z. Leibo , Alexander Sasha Vezhnevets

While deep generative models~(DGMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in capturing complex data distributions, they consistently fail to learn constraints that encode domain knowledge and thus require constraint integration. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Ruoyan Li , Dipti Ranjan Sahu , Guy Van den Broeck , Zhe Zeng

In agent-based simulations, synthetic populations of agents are commonly used to represent the structure, behaviour, and interactions of individuals. However, generating a synthetic population that accurately reflects real population…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Imran Mahmood , Nicholas Bishop , Anisoara Calinescu , Michael Wooldridge , Ioannis Zachos

Data scarcity remains a critical bottleneck impeding technological advancements across various domains, including but not limited to medicine and precision agriculture. To address this challenge, we explore the potential of Deep Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Marco Salmè , Lorenzo Tronchin , Rosa Sicilia , Paolo Soda , Valerio Guarrasi

Census and Household Travel Survey datasets are regularly collected from households and individuals and provide information on their daily travel behavior with demographic and economic characteristics. These datasets have important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Eren Arkangil , Mehmet Yildirimoglu , Jiwon Kim , Carlo Prato

This paper presents a comprehensive systematic review of generative models (GANs, VAEs, DMs, and LLMs) used to synthesize various medical data types, including imaging (dermoscopic, mammographic, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and X-ray), text,…

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) advance face synthesis through learning the underlying distribution of observed data. Despite the high-quality generated faces, some minority groups can be rarely generated from the trained models due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shuhan Tan , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Deep learning (DL) has achieved remarkable successes in many disciplines such as computer vision and natural language processing due to the availability of ``big data''. However, such success cannot be easily replicated in many nuclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Farah Alsafadi , Xu Wu

Deep generative models (DGMs) are data-eager because learning a complex model on limited data suffers from a large variance and easily overfits. Inspired by the classical perspective of the bias-variance tradeoff, we propose regularized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yong Zhong , Hongtao Liu , Xiaodong Liu , Fan Bao , Weiran Shen , Chongxuan Li

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

Using a deep generative machine learning approach, we synthesise human activity participations and scheduling; i.e. the choices of what activities to participate in and when. Activity schedules are a core component of many applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Fred Shone , Tim Hillel

Modern studies of societal phenomena rely on the availability of large datasets capturing attributes and activities of synthetic, city-level, populations. For instance, in epidemiology, synthetic population datasets are necessary to study…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-26 Hao Wu , Yue Ning , Prithwish Chakraborty , Jilles Vreeken , Nikolaj Tatti , Naren Ramakrishnan

The synthesis of product design concepts stands at the crux of early-phase development processes for technical products, traditionally posing an intricate interdisciplinary challenge. The application of deep learning methods, particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Phillip Mueller , Lars Mikelsons

Population censuses are vital to public policy decision-making. They provide insight into human resources, demography, culture, and economic structure at local, regional, and national levels. However, such surveys are very expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bhavesh Neekhra , Kshitij Kapoor , Debayan Gupta

Automated design synthesis has the potential to revolutionize the modern engineering design process and improve access to highly optimized and customized products across countless industries. Successfully adapting generative Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Lyle Regenwetter , Amin Heyrani Nobari , Faez Ahmed

This paper studies the feasibility of synthetic data generation for mission-critical applications. The emphasis is on synthetic data generation for anomalous detection in complex social networks. In particular, the development of a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Andreea Sistrunk , Vanessa Cedeno , Subhodip Biswas