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Synthetic data has been widely applied in the real world recently. One typical example is the creation of synthetic data for privacy concerned datasets. In this scenario, synthetic data substitute the real data which contains the privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Ling , Tim Menzies , Christopher Hazard , Jack Shu , Jacob Beel

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

This gem describes a standard method for generating synthetic spatial data that can be used in benchmarking and scalability tests. The goal is to improve the reproducibility and increase the trust in experiments on synthetic data by using…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Tin Vu , Sara Migliorini , Ahmed Eldawy , Alberto Belussi

Human generation has achieved significant progress. Nonetheless, existing methods still struggle to synthesize specific regions such as faces and hands. We argue that the main reason is rooted in the training data. A holistic human dataset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jianglin Fu , Shikai Li , Yuming Jiang , Kwan-Yee Lin , Wayne Wu , Ziwei Liu

Data synthesis is gaining momentum as a privacy-enhancing technology. While single-table tabular data generation has seen considerable progress, current methods for multi-table data often lack the flexibility and expressiveness needed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Davide Scassola , Sebastiano Saccani , Luca Bortolussi

The increasing reliance on large-scale datasets in machine learning poses significant privacy and ethical challenges, particularly in sensitive domains such as face recognition. Synthetic data generation offers a promising alternative;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Parsa Rahimi , Damien Teney , Sebastien Marcel

Currently, there are many difficulties regarding the interoperability of medical data and related population data sources. These complications get in the way of the generation of high-quality data sets at city, region and national levels.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Anna Andreychenko , Viktoriia Korzhuk , Stanislav Kondratenko , Polina Cheraneva

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

This paper provides a detailed survey of synthetic data techniques. We first discuss the expected goals of using synthetic data in data augmentation, which can be divided into four parts: 1) Improving Diversity, 2) Data Balancing, 3)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hsin-Yu Chang , Pei-Yu Chen , Tun-Hsiang Chou , Chang-Sheng Kao , Hsuan-Yun Yu , Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

The limited data availability due to strict privacy regulations and significant resource demands severely constrains biomedical time-series AI development, which creates a critical gap between data requirements and accessibility. Synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Youngjoon Lee , Seongmin Cho , Yehhyun Jo , Jinu Gong , Hyunjoo Jenny Lee , Joonhyuk Kang

Most statistical agencies release randomly selected samples of Census microdata, usually with sample fractions under 10% and with other forms of statistical disclosure control (SDC) applied. An alternative to SDC is data synthesis, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Claire Little , Mark Elliot , Richard Allmendinger

Synthetic data generation creates data based on real-world data using generative models. In health applications, generating high-quality data while maintaining fairness for sensitive attributes is essential for equitable outcomes. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Nitish Nagesh , Ziyu Wang , Amir M. Rahmani

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tshilidzi Marwala , Eleonore Fournier-Tombs , Serge Stinckwich

Synthetic contact networks are useful for modeling epidemic spread and social transmission, but data to infer realistic contact patterns that take account of assortative connections at the geographic and economic levels is limited. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Alexander Y. Tulchinsky , Fardad Haghpanah , Alisa Hamilton , Nodar Kipshidze , Eili Y. Klein

We propose a new framework for generating cross-sectional synthetic datasets via disjoint generative models. In this paradigm, a dataset is partitioned into disjoint subsets that are supplied to separate instances of generative models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Anton Danholt Lautrup , Muhammad Rajabinasab , Tobias Hyrup , Arthur Zimek , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Advancements in foundation models have catalyzed research in Embodied AI to develop interactive agents capable of environmental reasoning and interaction. Developing such agents requires diverse, large-scale datasets. Prior frameworks…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Siddharth Singh , Ifrah Idrees , Abraham Dauhajre

Synthetic healthcare data generation offers a promising solution to research limitations in clinical settings caused by privacy and regulatory constraints. However, current synthetic data generation approaches require specialized knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nitish Nagesh , Salar Shakibhamedan , Mahdi Bagheri , Ziyu Wang , Nima TaheriNejad , Axel Jantsch , Amir M. Rahmani

Data augmentation via synthetic data generation has been shown to be effective in improving model performance and robustness in the context of scarce or low-quality data. Using the data valuation framework to statistically identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tommaso Ferracci , Leonie Tabea Goldmann , Anton Hinel , Francesco Sanna Passino

Annotated datasets are critical for training neural networks for object detection, yet their manual creation is time- and labour-intensive, subjective to human error, and often limited in diversity. This challenge is particularly pronounced…

Data for good implies unfettered access to data. But data owners must be conservative about how, when, and why they share data or risk violating the trust of the people they aim to help, losing their funding, or breaking the law. Data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich , Haoyue Ping , Bernease Herman , Matt Gee