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Synthetic data has emerged as a promising source for 3D human research as it offers low-cost access to large-scale human datasets. To advance the diversity and annotation quality of human models, we introduce a new synthetic dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhitao Yang , Zhongang Cai , Haiyi Mei , Shuai Liu , Zhaoxi Chen , Weiye Xiao , Yukun Wei , Zhongfei Qing , Chen Wei , Bo Dai , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu , Lei Yang

We study, from an empirical standpoint, the efficacy of synthetic data in real-world scenarios. Leveraging synthetic data for training perception models has become a key strategy embraced by the community due to its efficiency, scalability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Che-Jui Chang , Danrui Li , Seonghyeon Moon , Mubbasir Kapadia

The emergence of synthetic data represents a pivotal shift in modern machine learning, offering a solution to satisfy the need for large volumes of data in domains where real data is scarce, highly private, or difficult to obtain. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Krisztian Balog , John Palowitch , Barbara Ikica , Filip Radlinski , Hamidreza Alvari , Mehdi Manshadi

A critical challenge in modelling Heterogeneous-Agent Teams is training agents to collaborate with teammates whose policies are inaccessible or non-stationary, such as humans. Traditional approaches rely on expensive human-in-the-loop data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Aju Ani Justus , Chris Baber

Preference-based reward learning is a popular technique for teaching robots and autonomous systems how a human user wants them to perform a task. Previous works have shown that actively synthesizing preference queries to maximize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Evan Ellis , Gaurav R. Ghosal , Stuart J. Russell , Anca Dragan , Erdem Bıyık

Synthetic data are becoming a critical tool for building artificially intelligent systems. Simulators provide a way of generating data systematically and at scale. These data can then be used either exclusively, or in conjunction with real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Daniel McDuff , Theodore Curran , Achuta Kadambi

Recommendation systems make predictions chiefly based on users' historical interaction data (e.g., items previously clicked or purchased). There is a risk of privacy leakage when collecting the users' behavior data for building the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Fan Liu , Zhiyong Cheng , Huilin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

The public availability of collections containing user preferences is of vital importance for performing offline evaluations in the field of recommender systems. However, the number of rating datasets is limited because of the costs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Diego Monti , Giuseppe Rizzo , Maurizio Morisio

Imitation learning from human demonstrations is an effective paradigm for robot manipulation, but acquiring large datasets is costly and resource-intensive, especially for long-horizon tasks. To address this issue, we propose SkillMimicGen…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Caelan Garrett , Ajay Mandlekar , Bowen Wen , Dieter Fox

In this work, we develop an automated method to generate 3D human walking motion in simulation which is comparable to real-world human motion. At the core, our work leverages the ability of deep reinforcement learning methods to learn…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Visak Kumar

A common approach to synthetic data is to sample from a fitted model. We show that under general assumptions, this approach results in a sample with inefficient estimators and whose joint distribution is inconsistent with the true…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Jordan Awan , Zhanrui Cai

Modeling subrational agents, such as humans or economic households, is inherently challenging due to the difficulty in calibrating reinforcement learning models or collecting data that involves human subjects. Existing work highlights the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Andrea Coletta , Kshama Dwarakanath , Penghang Liu , Svitlana Vyetrenko , Tucker Balch

New systems employ Machine Learning to sift through large knowledge sources, creating flexible Large Language Models. These models discern context and predict sequential information in various communication forms. Generative AI, leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Ted Selker

Many important decisions in our everyday lives, such as authentication via biometric models, are made by Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. These can be in poor alignment with human expectations, and testing them on clear-cut existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Lukas Mecke , Daniel Buschek , Uwe Gruenefeld , Florian Alt

In video understanding tasks, particularly those involving human motion, synthetic data generation often suffers from uncanny features, diminishing its effectiveness for training. Tasks such as sign language translation, gesture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Vaclav Knapp , Matyas Bohacek

Synthesizing user-intended programs from a small number of input-output examples is a challenging problem with several important applications like spreadsheet manipulation, data wrangling and code refactoring. Existing synthesis systems…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-17 Ashwin Kalyan , Abhishek Mohta , Oleksandr Polozov , Dhruv Batra , Prateek Jain , Sumit Gulwani

End-to-end neural approaches are becoming increasingly common in conversational scenarios due to their promising performances when provided with sufficient amount of data. In this paper, we present a novel methodology to address the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Sourabh Majumdar , Serra Sinem Tekiroglu , Marco Guerini

Gesture recognition research, unlike NLP, continues to face acute data scarcity, with progress constrained by the need for costly human recordings or image processing approaches that cannot generate authentic variability in the gestures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hassan Ali , Doreen Jirak , Luca Müller , Stefan Wermter

We propose a novel approach to program synthesis, focusing on synthesizing database queries. At a high level, our proposed algorithm takes as input a sketch with soft constraints encoding user intent, and then iteratively interacts with the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Osbert Bastani , Xin Zhang , Armando Solar-Lezama

In human-robot teams, humans often start with an inaccurate model of the robot capabilities. As they interact with the robot, they infer the robot's capabilities and partially adapt to the robot, i.e., they might change their actions based…

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