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Location data collected from mobile devices represent mobility behaviors at individual and societal levels. These data have important applications ranging from transportation planning to epidemic modeling. However, issues must be overcome…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Alex Berke , Ronan Doorley , Kent Larson , Esteban Moro

The sharing of large-scale transportation data is beneficial for transportation planning and policymaking. However, it also raises significant security and privacy concerns, as the data may include identifiable personal information, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chengen Wang , Alvaro Cardenas , Gurcan Comert , Murat Kantarcioglu

Obtaining real-world network datasets is often challenging because of privacy, security, and computational constraints. In the absence of such datasets, graph generative models become essential tools for creating synthetic datasets. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Arya Grayeli , Vipin Swarup , Steven E. Noel

Bayesian inference provides a framework to combine various model components with shared parameters, allowing joint uncertainty estimation and the use of all available data sources. Unfortunately, misspecification of any part of the model…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Emilia Pompe , Mikołaj J. Kasprzak , Pierre E. Jacob

Neural networks make accurate predictions but often fail to provide reliable uncertainty estimates, especially under covariate distribution shifts between training and testing. To address this problem, we propose a Bayesian framework for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-22 Yuli Slavutsky , David M. Blei

We study the efficacy and efficiency of deep generative networks for approximating probability distributions. We prove that neural networks can transform a low-dimensional source distribution to a distribution that is arbitrarily close to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yunfei Yang , Zhen Li , Yang Wang

This paper proposes a data-driven distributionally robust shortest path (DRSP) model where the distribution of the travel time in the transportation network can only be partially observed through a finite number of samples. Specifically, we…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Zhuolin Wang , Keyou You , Shiji Song , Yuli Zhang

Accurately predicting pedestrian trajectories is crucial in applications such as autonomous driving or service robotics, to name a few. Deep generative models achieve top performance in this task, assuming enough labelled trajectories are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Mirko Zaffaroni , Federico Signoretta , Marco Grangetto , Attilio Fiandrotti

In this work, we seek to simulate rare transitions between metastable states using score-based generative models. An efficient method for generating high-quality transition paths is valuable for the study of molecular systems since data is…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-09-20 Luke Triplett , Jianfeng Lu

Acquiring and annotating suitable datasets for training deep learning models is challenging. This often results in tedious and time-consuming efforts that can hinder research progress. However, generative models have emerged as a promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Andrea Lampis , Eugenio Lomurno , Matteo Matteucci

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

Sketch-based terrain generation seeks to create realistic landscapes for virtual environments in various applications such as computer games, animation and virtual reality. Recently, deep learning based terrain generation has emerged,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zexin Hu , Kun Hu , Clinton Mo , Lei Pan , Zhiyong Wang

Generating trajectory data is among promising solutions to addressing privacy concerns, collection costs, and proprietary restrictions usually associated with human mobility analyses. However, existing trajectory generation methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Yuanshao Zhu , James Jianqiao Yu , Xiangyu Zhao , Qidong Liu , Yongchao Ye , Wei Chen , Zijian Zhang , Xuetao Wei , Yuxuan Liang

Training models to high-end performance requires availability of large labeled datasets, which are expensive to get. The goal of our work is to automatically synthesize labeled datasets that are relevant for a downstream task. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Amlan Kar , Aayush Prakash , Ming-Yu Liu , Eric Cameracci , Justin Yuan , Matt Rusiniak , David Acuna , Antonio Torralba , Sanja Fidler

Synthetic data generation has been a growing area of research in recent years. However, its potential applications in serious games have not been thoroughly explored. Advances in this field could anticipate data modelling and analysis, as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jaime Pérez , Mario Castro , Edmond Awad , Gregorio López

In recent years, machine learning (ML) methods have become increasingly popular in wireless communication systems for several applications. A critical bottleneck for designing ML systems for wireless communications is the availability of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-03 Satyavrat Wagle , Akshay Malhotra , Shahab Hamidi-Rad , Aditya Sant , David J. Love , Christopher G. Brinton

Distribution data refers to a data set where each sample is represented as a probability distribution, a subject area receiving burgeoning interest in the field of statistics. Although several studies have developed…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-02-09 Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi

For autonomous agents to successfully operate in the real world, the ability to anticipate future scene states is a key competence. In real-world scenarios, future states become increasingly uncertain and multi-modal, particularly on long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

Census and Household Travel Survey datasets are regularly collected from households and individuals and provide information on their daily travel behavior with demographic and economic characteristics. These datasets have important…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Eren Arkangil , Mehmet Yildirimoglu , Jiwon Kim , Carlo Prato

The Wasserstein distance is a distance between two probability distributions and has recently gained increasing popularity in statistics and machine learning, owing to its attractive properties. One important approach to extending this…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-14 Ryo Okano , Masaaki Imaizumi