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Synthetic data has gained significant momentum thanks to sophisticated machine learning tools that enable the synthesis of high-dimensional datasets. However, many generation techniques do not give the data controller control over what…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Florimond Houssiau , Samuel N. Cohen , Lukasz Szpruch , Owen Daniel , Michaela G. Lawrence , Robin Mitra , Henry Wilde , Callum Mole

Generating synthetic data through generative models is gaining interest in the ML community and beyond. In the past, synthetic data was often regarded as a means to private data release, but a surge of recent papers explore how its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Boris van Breugel , Mihaela van der Schaar

Synthetic data generation is a promising technique to facilitate the use of sensitive data while mitigating the risk of privacy breaches. However, for synthetic data to be useful in downstream analysis tasks, it needs to be of sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Thom Benjamin Volker , Peter-Paul de Wolf , Erik-Jan van Kesteren

Real-world data often exhibits bias, imbalance, and privacy risks. Synthetic datasets have emerged to address these issues. This paradigm relies on generative AI models to generate unbiased, privacy-preserving data while maintaining…

Many ground-breaking advancements in machine learning can be attributed to the availability of a large volume of rich data. Unfortunately, many large-scale datasets are highly sensitive, such as healthcare data, and are not widely available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 James Jordon , Alan Wilson , Mihaela van der Schaar

The proliferation of data across the system lifecycle presents both a significant opportunity and a challenge for Engineering Design and Systems Engineering (EDSE). While this "digital thread" has the potential to drive innovation, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 H. Sinan Bank , Daniel R. Herber

Although many AI applications of interest require specialized multi-modal models, relevant data to train such models is inherently scarce or inaccessible. Filling these gaps with human annotators is prohibitively expensive, error-prone, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tim R. Davidson , Benoit Seguin , Enrico Bacis , Cesar Ilharco , Hamza Harkous

The sharp increase in data-related expenses has motivated research into condensing datasets while retaining the most informative features. Dataset distillation has thus recently come to the fore. This paradigm generates synthetic datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jiawei Du , Xin Zhang , Juncheng Hu , Wenxin Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou

With the advent of generative modeling techniques, synthetic data and its use has penetrated across various domains from unstructured data such as image, text to structured dataset modeling healthcare outcome, risk decisioning in financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Aman Gupta , Deepak Bhatt , Anubha Pandey

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

Synthetic data is an increasingly popular tool for training deep learning models, especially in computer vision but also in other areas. In this work, we attempt to provide a comprehensive survey of the various directions in the development…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Sergey I. Nikolenko

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Synthetic data is being used lately for training deep neural networks in computer vision applications such as object detection, object segmentation and 6D object pose estimation. Domain randomization hereby plays an important role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Parth Rawal , Mrunal Sompura , Wolfgang Hintze

Measuring inter-dataset similarity is an important task in machine learning and data mining with various use cases and applications. Existing methods for measuring inter-dataset similarity are computationally expensive, limited, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Muhammad Rajabinasab , Anton D. Lautrup , Arthur Zimek

As AI becomes prevalent in high-risk domains and decision-making, it is essential to test for potential harms and biases. This urgency is reflected by the global emergence of AI regulations that emphasise fairness and adequate testing, with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Varsha Ramineni , Hossein A. Rahmani , Emine Yilmaz , David Barber

With the rising adoption of Machine Learning across the domains like banking, pharmaceutical, ed-tech, etc, it has become utmost important to adopt responsible AI methods to ensure models are not unfairly discriminating against any group.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Bhushan Chaudhari , Himanshu Chaudhary , Aakash Agarwal , Kamna Meena , Tanmoy Bhowmik

Recent advancements in generative models have unlocked the capabilities to render photo-realistic data in a controllable fashion. Trained on the real data, these generative models are capable of producing realistic samples with minimal to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Abhay Rawat , Shubham Dokania , Astitva Srivastava , Shuaib Ahmed , Haiwen Feng , Rahul Tallamraju

Synthetic data has emerged as a crucial solution to the data scarcity bottleneck in large language models (LLMs), particularly for specialized domains and low-resource languages. However, the broader adoption of existing synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhichao Shi , Cehao Yang , Hao Zhou , Xiaojun Wu , Huajie Li , Xuhui Jiang , Chengjin Xu , Yuanzhuo Wang , Jian Guo

The switch from a Model-Centric to a Data-Centric mindset is putting emphasis on data and its quality rather than algorithms, bringing forward new challenges. In particular, the sensitive nature of the information in highly regulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Giorgio Visani , Giacomo Graffi , Mattia Alfero , Enrico Bagli , Davide Capuzzo , Federico Chesani

Recently there has been increasing interest in developing and deploying deep graph learning algorithms for many tasks, such as fraud detection and recommender systems. Albeit, there is a limited number of publicly available graph-structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Sajad Darabi , Piotr Bigaj , Dawid Majchrowski , Artur Kasymov , Pawel Morkisz , Alex Fit-Florea