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Causal inference is essential for developing and evaluating medical interventions, yet real-world medical datasets are often difficult to access due to regulatory barriers. This makes synthetic data a potentially valuable asset that enables…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Harry Amad , Zhaozhi Qian , Dennis Frauen , Julianna Piskorz , Stefan Feuerriegel , Mihaela van der Schaar

Data plays a fundamental role in consolidating markets, services, and products in the digital financial ecosystem. However, the use of real data, especially in the financial context, can lead to privacy risks and access restrictions,…

We study consumer demand in large-scale retail settings with many products, multiple categories and repeated purchase behavior. While inertia and brand loyalty are well documented, existing discrete choice models typically focus on single…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-25 Daniel Brunner , Florian Heiss , Anna B. Schmidt

Data quality remains a critical bottleneck in developing capable, competitive models. Researchers have explored many ways to generate top quality samples. Some works rely on rejection sampling: generating lots of synthetic samples and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Ishika Agarwal , Sofia Stoica , Emre Can Acikgoz , Pradeep Natarajan , Mahdi Namazifar , Jiaqi Ma , Dilek Hakkani-Tür

Recommender systems are ubiquitous yet often difficult for users to control, and adjust if recommendation quality is poor. This has motivated conversational recommender systems (CRSs), with control provided through natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Megan Leszczynski , Shu Zhang , Ravi Ganti , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski , Fernando Pereira , Arun Tejasvi Chaganty

Simulating a recommendation system in a controlled environment, to identify specific behaviors and user preferences, requires highly flexible synthetic data generation models capable of mimicking the patterns and trends of real datasets. In…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Simone Mungari , Erica Coppolillo , Ettore Ritacco , Giuseppe Manco

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 essence of sequential recommender systems (RecSys) lies in understanding how users make decisions. Most existing approaches frame the task as sequential prediction based on users' historical purchase records. While effective in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Xiaoyu Liu , Jiaxin Yuan , Yuhang Zhou , Jingling Li , Furong Huang , Wei Ai

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

Synthetic data generation (SDG) is a promising approach for enabling data sharing in biomedical studies while preserving patient privacy. Yet, state-of-the-art generative models often require large datasets and complex training procedures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Natalia Espinosa-Dice , Nicholas J. Jackson , Chao Yan , Aaron Lee , Bradley A. Malin

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming supply chain management, yet progress in predictive tasks -- such as delivery delay prediction -- remains constrained by the scarcity of high-quality, openly available datasets. Existing datasets…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Liming Xu , Yunbo Long , Alexandra Brintrup

Efficient learning of user preferences is crucial for many modern decision making systems but typically requires costly labeled data. Active learning reduces this cost, yet standard methods are computationally expensive due to pool-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Namrata Nadagouda , Nauman Ahad , Maegan Tucker , Mark A. Davenport

Personal thermal comfort models aim to predict an individual's thermal comfort response, instead of the average response of a large group. Recently, machine learning algorithms have proven to be having enormous potential as a candidate for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Hari Prasanna Das , Costas J. Spanos

The availability of large image data sets has been a crucial factor in the success of deep learning-based classification and detection methods. While data sets for everyday objects are widely available, data for specific industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Matthew Z. Wong , Kiyohito Kunii , Max Baylis , Wai Hong Ong , Pavel Kroupa , Swen Koller

Deep learning-based methods for video pedestrian detection and tracking require large volumes of training data to achieve good performance. However, data acquisition in crowded public environments raises data privacy concerns -- we are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Matteo Fabbri , Guillem Braso , Gianluca Maugeri , Orcun Cetintas , Riccardo Gasparini , Aljosa Osep , Simone Calderara , Laura Leal-Taixe , Rita Cucchiara

High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xuemei Jia , Jiawei Du , Hui Wei , Jun Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zheng Wang

This paper presents a deployed, production-grade system designed to enhance and scale search query datasets for intent-based recommendation systems in digital banking. In real-world environments, the growing volume and complexity of user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Aaron Rodrigues , Mahmood Hegazy , Azzam Naeem

In contemporary retail, the variety of products available (e.g. clothing, groceries, cosmetics, frozen goods) make it difficult to predict the demand, prevent stockouts, and find high-potential products. We suggest an agentic AI model that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Toqeer Ali Syed , Salman Jan , Gohar Ali , Ali Akarma , Ahmad Ali , Qurat-ul-Ain Mastoi

The widespread adoption of wearable sensors has the potential to provide massive and heterogeneous time series data, driving the use of Artificial Intelligence in human sensing applications. However, data collection remains limited due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Flavio Di Martino , Franca Delmastro

Synthetic data and simulators have the potential to markedly improve the performance and robustness of recommendation systems. These approaches have already had a beneficial impact in other machine-learning driven fields. We identify and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Adam Lesnikowski , Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Sara Rabhi , Karl Byleen-Higley