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Can we improve machine-learning (ML) emulators with synthetic data? If data are scarce or expensive to source and a physical model is available, statistically generated data may be useful for augmenting training sets cheaply. Here we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-28 David Meyer , Thomas Nagler , Robin J. Hogan

As insufficient data volume and quality remain the key impediments to the adoption of modern subsymbolic AI, techniques of synthetic data generation are in high demand. Simulation offers an apt, systematic approach to generating diverse…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Xiaoran Liu , Istvan David

Synthetic data serves as an alternative in training machine learning models, particularly when real-world data is limited or inaccessible. However, ensuring that synthetic data mirrors the complex nuances of real-world data is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lasse Hansen , Nabeel Seedat , Mihaela van der Schaar , Andrija Petrovic

It has been demonstrated that the amount of data is crucial in data-driven machine learning methods. Data is always valuable, but in some tasks, it is almost like gold. This occurs in engineering areas where data is scarce or very expensive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-12 David Solis-Martin , Juan Galan-Paez , Joaquin Borrego-Diaz

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tshilidzi Marwala , Eleonore Fournier-Tombs , Serge Stinckwich

One major barrier to advancing aerial autonomy has been collecting large-scale aerial datasets for training machine learning models. Due to costly and time-consuming real-world data collection through deploying drones, there has been an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Mehrnaz Sabet , Praveen Palanisamy , Sakshi Mishra

This paper addresses the challenge of overfitting in the learning of dynamical systems by introducing a novel approach for the generation of synthetic data, aimed at enhancing model generalization and robustness in scenarios characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Dario Piga , Matteo Rufolo , Gabriele Maroni , Manas Mejari , Marco Forgione

Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Unbalanced tabular data sets present significant challenges for predictive modeling and data analysis across a wide range of applications. In many real-world scenarios, such as fraud detection, medical diagnosis, and rare event prediction,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Ivona Krchova , Michael Platzer , Paul Tiwald

Recent advances in generative modelling have led many to see synthetic data as the go-to solution for a range of problems around data access, scarcity, and under-representation. In this paper, we study three prominent use cases: (1) Sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bogdan Kulynych , Theresa Stadler , Jean Louis Raisaro , Carmela Troncoso

Synthetic augmentation is increasingly used to mitigate data scarcity in financial machine learning, yet its statistical role remains poorly understood. We formalize synthetic augmentation as a modification of the effective training…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mel Sohm , Charles Dezons , Sami Sellami , Oscar Ninou , Axel Pincon

The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and high costs. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ruibo Liu , Jerry Wei , Fangyu Liu , Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Jinmeng Rao , Steven Zheng , Daiyi Peng , Diyi Yang , Denny Zhou , Andrew M. Dai

The use of synthetic data to deidentify data and to improve predictive models is well-attested to. The augmentation of datasets using synthetically generated data is an alluring proposition: in the best case, it generates realistic data…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-20 Reid Dale , Jordan Rodu , Mike Baiocchi

Reliable machine learning and statistical analysis rely on diverse, well-distributed training data. However, real-world datasets are often limited in size and exhibit underrepresentation across key subpopulations, leading to biased…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Xinyu Tian , Xiaotong Shen

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 lack of freely available standardized datasets represents an aggravating factor during the development and testing the performance of novel computational techniques in exposure assessment and dosimetry research. This hinders progress as…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-05-04 Ante Kapetanovic , Dragan Poljak , Kun Li

Nowadays, data augmentation through synthetic data has been widely used in the field of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) to alleviate the problem of data scarcity. However, these synthetic data are mainly used in the pre-training phase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yixuan Wang , Baoxin Wang , Yijun Liu , Qingfu Zhu , Dayong Wu , Wanxiang Che

This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation approach to hide specific information in the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Manel Slokom , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic

In the manufacturing industry, computer vision systems based on artificial intelligence (AI) are widely used to reduce costs and increase production. Training these AI models requires a large amount of training data that is costly to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Steven Moonen , Rob Salaets , Kenneth Batstone , Abdellatif Bey-Temsamani , Nick Michiels

The advent of accessible Generative AI tools enables anyone to create and spread synthetic images on social media, often with the intention to mislead, thus posing a significant threat to online information integrity. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Efthymia Amarantidou , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis