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Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising approach to address the challenges of using sensitive financial data in machine learning applications. By leveraging generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 James Meldrum , Basem Suleiman , Fethi Rabhi , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

Generating synthetic data through generative models is gaining interest in the ML community and beyond, promising a future where datasets can be tailored to individual needs. Unfortunately, synthetic data is usually not perfect, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Boris van Breugel , Zhaozhi Qian , Mihaela van der Schaar

Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leonhard Hennicke , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese , Jan Mathias Koehler , Lukas Schott

In semiconductor manufacturing, the wafer dicing process is central yet vulnerable to defects that significantly impair yield - the proportion of defect-free chips. Deep neural networks are the current state of the art in (semi-)automated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhining Hu , Tobias Schlosser , Michael Friedrich , André Luiz Vieira e Silva , Frederik Beuth , Danny Kowerko

The machine learning community has mainly relied on real data to benchmark algorithms as it provides compelling evidence of model applicability. Evaluation on synthetic datasets can be a powerful tool to provide a better understanding of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Florence Regol , Anja Kroon , Mark Coates

Deep learning models frequently suffer from various problems such as class imbalance and lack of robustness to distribution shift. It is often difficult to find data suitable for training beyond the available benchmarks. This is especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Pratinav Seth , Akshat Bhandari , Kumud Lakara

Recent breakthroughs in synthetic data generation approaches made it possible to produce highly photorealistic images which are hardly distinguishable from real ones. Furthermore, synthetic generation pipelines have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Alon Shoshan , Nadav Bhonker , Igor Kviatkovsky , Matan Fintz , Gerard Medioni

With recent advances in speech synthesis, synthetic data is becoming a viable alternative to real data for training speech recognition models. However, machine learning with synthetic data is not trivial due to the gap between the synthetic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-25 Ting-Yao Hu , Mohammadreza Armandpour , Ashish Shrivastava , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Hema Koppula , Oncel Tuzel

The emergence of generative AI models has dramatically expanded the availability and use of synthetic data across scientific, industrial, and policy domains. While these developments open new possibilities for data analysis, they also raise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Ahmad Abdel-Azim , Ruoyu Wang , Xihong Lin

Recent advances in generative deep learning have enabled the creation of high-quality synthetic images in text-to-image generation. Prior work shows that fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model on ImageNet and generating synthetic training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Zhuoran Yu , Chenchen Zhu , Sean Culatana , Raghuraman Krishnamoorthi , Fanyi Xiao , Yong Jae Lee

Handling imbalance in class distribution when building a classifier over tabular data has been a problem of long-standing interest. One popular approach is augmenting the training dataset with synthetically generated data. While classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Annie D'souza , Swetha M , Sunita Sarawagi

Deep generative models are proven to be a useful tool for automatic design synthesis and design space exploration. When applied in engineering design, existing generative models face three challenges: 1) generated designs lack diversity and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Wei Chen , Faez Ahmed

Synthetic data generation to improve classification performance (data augmentation) is a well-studied problem. Recently, generative adversarial networks (GAN) have shown superior image data augmentation performance, but their suitability in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mehran Maghoumi , Eugene M. Taranta , Joseph J. LaViola

Synthetic samples from diffusion models are promising for leveraging in training discriminative models as replications of real training datasets. However, we found that the synthetic datasets degrade classification performance over real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Takuma Fukuda

Multi-domain image-to-image translation with conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) can generate highly photo realistic images with desired target classes, yet these synthetic images have not always been helpful to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Suman Sapkota , Bidur Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Bishesh Khanal , Tae-Kyun Kim

Quantization is a widely adopted technique for deep neural networks to reduce the memory and computational resources required. However, when quantized, most models would need a suitable calibration process to keep their performance intact,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Athanasios Masouris , Mansi Sharma , Adrian Boguszewski , Alexander Kozlov , Zhuo Wu , Raymond Lo

Deep learning-based food image classification enables precise identification of food categories, further facilitating accurate nutritional analysis. However, real-world food images often show a skewed distribution, with some food types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 GaYeon Koh , Hyun-Jic Oh , Jeonghyun Noh , Won-Ki Jeong

Deep learning models have been used for a variety of image processing tasks. However, most of these models are developed through supervised learning approaches, which rely heavily on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Jaden Myers , Keyhan Najafian , Farhad Maleki , Katie Ovens

Differentially private synthetic data is a promising alternative for sensitive data release. Many differentially private generative models have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, they all suffer from the low utility of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Cao , Chun-Ying Huang

Using synthetic data for training deep neural networks for robotic manipulation holds the promise of an almost unlimited amount of pre-labeled training data, generated safely out of harm's way. One of the key challenges of synthetic data,…

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