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Simulation studies are widely used to evaluate statistical methods. However, new methods are often introduced and evaluated using data-generating mechanisms (DGMs) devised by the same authors. This coupling creates misaligned incentives,…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-23 František Bartoš , Samuel Pawel , Björn S. Siepe

Synthetic data has garnered attention as a Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET) in sectors such as healthcare and finance. When using synthetic data in practical applications, it is important to provide protection guarantees. In the…

In this study, we explore the growing potential of AI and deep learning technologies, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), for generating synthetic tabular data. Access to quality students…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mohammad Khalil , Sam Urmian , Ronas Shakya , Qinyi Liu

Data augmentation is a series of techniques that generate high-quality artificial data by manipulating existing data samples. By leveraging data augmentation techniques, AI models can achieve significantly improved applicability in tasks…

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In this paper, we present an effective data augmentation framework leveraging the Large Language Model (LLM) and Diffusion Model (DM) to tackle the challenges inherent in data-scarce scenarios. Recently, DMs have opened up the possibility…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Kyuheon Jung , Yongdeuk Seo , Seongwoo Cho , Jaeyoung Kim , Hyun-seok Min , Sungchul Choi

Evaluating the performance of machine learning models on diverse and underrepresented subgroups is essential for ensuring fairness and reliability in real-world applications. However, accurately assessing model performance becomes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Boris van Breugel , Nabeel Seedat , Fergus Imrie , Mihaela van der Schaar

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for generating data across various modalities. By transforming data from a scarce resource into a controllable asset, LLMs mitigate the bottlenecks imposed by the acquisition costs…

We propose and study a minimalist approach towards synthetic tabular data generation. The model consists of a minimalistic unsupervised SparsePCA encoder (with contingent clustering step or log transformation to handle nonlinearity) and…

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

Dataset distillation aims at synthesizing a dataset by a small number of artificially generated data items, which, when used as training data, reproduce or approximate a machine learning (ML) model as if it were trained on the entire…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Radu-Andrei Rosu , Mihaela-Elena Breaban , Henri Luchian

Due to long-distance correlation and powerful pretrained models, transformer-based methods have initiated a breakthrough in visual object tracking performance. Previous works focus on designing effective architectures suited for tracking,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Jie Zhao , Johan Edstedt , Michael Felsberg , Dong Wang , Huchuan Lu

Synthetic data generation is integral to ML pipelines, e.g., to augment training data, replace sensitive information, and even to power advanced platforms like DeepSeek. While LLMs fine-tuned for synthetic data generation are gaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Shengzhe Xu , Cho-Ting Lee , Mandar Sharma , Raquib Bin Yousuf , Nikhil Muralidhar , Naren Ramakrishnan

Data is commonly stored in tabular format. Several fields of research are prone to small imbalanced tabular data. Supervised Machine Learning on such data is often difficult due to class imbalance. Synthetic data generation, i.e.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Kristian Schultz , Saptarshi Bej , Waldemar Hahn , Markus Wolfien , Prashant Srivastava , Olaf Wolkenhauer

Data augmentation is arguably the most important regularization technique commonly used to improve generalization performance of machine learning models. It primarily involves the application of appropriate data transformation operations to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Alhassan Mumuni , Fuseini Mumuni

In this paper, we address a key scientific problem in machine learning: Given a training set for an image classification task, can we train a generative model on this dataset to enhance the classification performance? (i.e., closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haowen Wang , Guowei Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Haiyang Xu , Dou Hoon Kwark , Zhuowen Tu

Data holders can produce synthetic versions of datasets when concerns about potential disclosure restrict the availability of the original records. This paper is concerned with methods to judge whether such synthetic data have a…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-20 Joshua Snoke , Gillian Raab , Beata Nowok , Chris Dibben , Aleksandra Slavkovic

The usage of medical image data for the training of large-scale machine learning approaches is particularly challenging due to its scarce availability and the costly generation of data annotations, typically requiring the engagement of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Joshua Niemeijer , Jan Ehrhardt , Hristina Uzunova , Heinz Handels

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

Training accurate intent classifiers requires labeled data, which can be costly to obtain. Data augmentation methods may ameliorate this issue, but the quality of the generated data varies significantly across techniques. We study the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Derek Chen , Claire Yin

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a range of applications in zero-shot and few-shot learning settings, including the generation of synthetic datasets for training and testing. However, to reliably use these synthetic datasets, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Gaurav Maheshwari , Dmitry Ivanov , Kevin El Haddad