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The increasing prevalence of synthetic data in training loops has raised concerns about model collapse, where generative models degrade when trained on their own outputs. While prior work focuses on this self-consuming process, we study an…

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The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI is fundamentally transforming information retrieval and processing on the Internet, bringing both great potential and significant concerns regarding content authenticity and…

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Improvement and adoption of generative machine learning models is rapidly accelerating, as exemplified by the popularity of LLMs (Large Language Models) for text, and diffusion models for image generation. As generative models become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Matteo Marchi , Stefano Soatto , Pratik Chaudhari , Paulo Tabuada

Foundation models are increasingly trained on synthetic data generated by prior model iterations rather than exclusively on real data. This self-consuming training paradigm can lead to model collapse, divergence, or bias amplification.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yang Zhang , Xiukun Wei , Xueru Zhang

Generative A.I. models have emerged as versatile tools across diverse industries, with applications in privacy-preserving data sharing, computational art, personalization of products and services, and immersive entertainment. Here, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jordan W. Suchow , Necdet Gürkan

Scaling generative AI models is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-quality training data. The ease of synthesizing from a generative model suggests using (unverified) synthetic data to augment a limited corpus of real data for the purpose…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Sina Alemohammad , Zhangyang Wang , Richard G. Baraniuk

Lifelong learning is challenging for deep neural networks due to their susceptibility to catastrophic forgetting. Catastrophic forgetting occurs when a trained network is not able to maintain its ability to accomplish previously learned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-23 Mengyao Zhai , Lei Chen , Fred Tung , Jiawei He , Megha Nawhal , Greg Mori

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as large language models (LLMs), has become a transformative force across science, industry, and society. As these systems grow in popularity, web data becomes increasingly interwoven with this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kevin Wang , Hongqian Niu , Didong Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of generative models used for various applications, but they have been known to suffer from the mode collapse problem, in which some modes of the target distribution are ignored by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Karttikeya Mangalam , Rohin Garg

Trained on massive amounts of human-generated content, AI-generated image synthesis is capable of reproducing semantically coherent images that match the visual appearance of its training data. We show that when retrained on even small…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Matyas Bohacek , Hany Farid

Deep generative models have made tremendous progress in modeling complex data, often exhibiting generation quality that surpasses a typical human's ability to discern the authenticity of samples. Undeniably, a key driver of this success is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Quentin Bertrand , Avishek Joey Bose , Alexandre Duplessis , Marco Jiralerspong , Gauthier Gidel

Self-consuming generative models have received significant attention over the last few years. In this paper, we study a self-consuming generative model with heterogeneous preferences that is a generalization of the model in Ferbach et al.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-14 Hongru Zhao , Jinwen Fu , Tuan Pham

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has led to growing interest in using synthetic data to train future models. However, this creates a self-consuming retraining loop, where models are trained on their own outputs and may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yaxuan Wang , Zhongteng Cai , Yujia Bao , Xueru Zhang , Yang Liu

The field of deep generative modeling has grown rapidly in the last few years. With the availability of massive amounts of training data coupled with advances in scalable unsupervised learning paradigms, recent large-scale generative models…

The proliferation of generative models, combined with pretraining on web-scale data, raises a timely question: what happens when these models are trained on their own generated outputs? Recent investigations into model-data feedback loops…

Recently, with increasing interest in pet healthcare, the demand for computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems in veterinary medicine has increased. The development of veterinary CAD has stagnated due to a lack of sufficient radiology data. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 In-Gyu Lee , Jun-Young Oh , Hee-Jung Yu , Jae-Hwan Kim , Ki-Dong Eom , Ji-Hoon Jeong

Generative modeling aims at producing new datapoints whose statistical properties resemble the ones in a training dataset. In recent years, there has been a burst of machine learning techniques and settings that can achieve this goal with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Samantha J. Fournier , Pierfrancesco Urbani

Attempts to train a comprehensive artificial intelligence capable of solving multiple tasks have been impeded by a chronic problem called catastrophic forgetting. Although simply replaying all previous data alleviates the problem, it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-12-13 Hanul Shin , Jung Kwon Lee , Jaehong Kim , Jiwon Kim

Modern generative machine learning models demonstrate surprising ability to create realistic outputs far beyond their training data, such as photorealistic artwork, accurate protein structures, or conversational text. These successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 William Gilpin

Humans accumulate knowledge in a lifelong fashion. Modern deep neural networks, on the other hand, are susceptible to catastrophic forgetting: when adapted to perform new tasks, they often fail to preserve their performance on previously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Mengyao Zhai , Lei Chen , Jiawei He , Megha Nawhal , Frederick Tung , Greg Mori