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Big data analysis poses the dual problem of privacy preservation and utility, i.e., how accurate data analyses remain after transforming original data in order to protect the privacy of the individuals that the data is about - and whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Md Sakib Nizam Khan , Niklas Reje , Sonja Buchegger

Generative models such as Large Language Models, Diffusion Models, and generative adversarial networks have recently revolutionized the creation of synthetic data, offering scalable solutions to data scarcity, privacy, and annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dawei Li , Yue Huang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Xiangliang Zhang , Huan Liu

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

Nowadays, the use of synthetic data has gained popularity as a cost-efficient strategy for enhancing data augmentation for improving machine learning models performance as well as addressing concerns related to sensitive data privacy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ioannis E. Livieris , Nikos Alimpertis , George Domalis , Dimitris Tsakalidis

The digitization of medical records ushered in a new era of big data to clinical science, and with it the possibility that data could be shared, to multiply insights beyond what investigators could abstract from paper records. The need to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Ofer Mendelevitch , Michael D. Lesh

Synthetic data generation has recently gained widespread attention as a more reliable alternative to traditional data anonymization. The involved methods are originally developed for image synthesis. Hence, their application to the…

A key challenge for the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions in radiology is solving the associated data limitations. Obtaining sufficient and representative patient datasets with appropriate annotations may…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Elena Sizikova , Andreu Badal , Jana G. Delfino , Miguel Lago , Brandon Nelson , Niloufar Saharkhiz , Berkman Sahiner , Ghada Zamzmi , Aldo Badano

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

Datasets of different characteristics are needed by the research community for experimental purposes. However, real data may be difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns. Moreover, real data may not meet specific characteristics which are…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Vanessa Ayala-Rivera , Patrick McDonagh , Thomas Cerqueus , Liam Murphy

Recommender systems are essential for enhancing user experiences by suggesting items based on individual preferences. However, these systems frequently face the challenge of data imbalance, characterized by a predominance of negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Fatih Cihan Taskin , Ilknur Akcay , Muhammed Pesen , Said Aldemir , Ipek Iraz Esin , Furkan Durmus

Existing differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation mechanisms typically assume a single-source table. In practice, data is often distributed across multiple tables with relationships across tables. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kaveh Alimohammadi , Hao Wang , Ojas Gulati , Akash Srivastava , Navid Azizan

Since technology is advancing so quickly in the modern era of information, data is becoming an essential resource in many fields. Correct data collection, organization, and analysis make it a potent tool for successful decision-making,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Dilsat Berin Aytar , Semra Gunduc

Synthetic data is a standard component in training large language models, yet systematic comparisons across design dimensions, including rephrasing strategy, generator model, and source data, remain absent. We conduct extensive controlled…

Supervised text models are a valuable tool for political scientists but present several obstacles to their use, including the expense of hand-labeling documents, the difficulty of retrieving rare relevant documents for annotation, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Andrew Halterman

This Viewpoint discusses generative artificial intelligence and safeguarding privacy by using synthetic data as a substitute for private health data.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Gwénolé Abgrall , Xavier Monnet , Anmol Arora

Data synthesis is a privacy enhancing technology aiming to produce realistic and timely data when real data is hard to obtain. Utility of synthetic data generators (SDGs) has been investigated through different utility metrics. These…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-13 F. K. Dankar , M. K. Ibrahim

We consider the problem of synthetically generating data that can closely resemble human decisions made in the context of an interactive human-AI system like a computer game. We propose a novel algorithm that can generate synthetic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-17 Bryan Brandt , Prithviraj Dasgupta

The LLM-as-a-judge paradigm enables flexible, user-defined evaluation, but its effectiveness is often limited by the scarcity of diverse, representative data for refining criteria. We present a tool that integrates synthetic data generation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hyo Jin Do , Zahra Ashktorab , Jasmina Gajcin , Erik Miehling , Martín Santillán Cooper , Qian Pan , Elizabeth M. Daly , Werner Geyer

Object recognition and object pose estimation in robotic grasping continue to be significant challenges, since building a labelled dataset can be time consuming and financially costly in terms of data collection and annotation. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-25 Dongmyoung Lee , Wei Chen , Nicolas Rojas

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research often aims to develop models that can generalize reliably across complex datasets, yet this remains challenging in fields where data is scarce, intricate, or inaccessible. This paper introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mohammad Zbeeb , Mohammad Ghorayeb , Mariam Salman