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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…

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As privacy regulations become more stringent and access to real-world data becomes increasingly constrained, synthetic data generation has emerged as a vital solution, especially for tabular datasets, which are central to domains like…

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Privacy poses a significant obstacle to the progress of learning analytics (LA), presenting challenges like inadequate anonymization and data misuse that current solutions struggle to address. Synthetic data emerges as a potential remedy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Qinyi Liu , Mohammad Khalil , Ronas Shakya , Jelena Jovanovic

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

Within the evolving landscape of deep learning, the dilemma of data quantity and quality has been a long-standing problem. The recent advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) offers a data-centric solution to alleviate the limitations of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lin Long , Rui Wang , Ruixuan Xiao , Junbo Zhao , Xiao Ding , Gang Chen , Haobo Wang

The proliferation of deep learning techniques led to a wide range of advanced analytics applications in important business areas such as predictive maintenance or product recommendation. However, as the effectiveness of advanced analytics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Peter Kowalczyk , Giacomo Welsch , Frédéric Thiesse

Collecting and annotating datasets for pixel-level semantic segmentation tasks are highly labor-intensive. Data augmentation provides a viable solution by enhancing model generalization without additional real-world data collection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Huy Che , Dinh-Duy Phan , Duc-Khai Lam

Dataset distillation is attracting more attention in machine learning as training sets continue to grow and the cost of training state-of-the-art models becomes increasingly high. By synthesizing datasets with high information density,…

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

Recent advancements in conversational systems have significantly enhanced human-machine interactions across various domains. However, training these systems is challenging due to the scarcity of specialized dialogue data. Traditionally,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Heydar Soudani , Roxana Petcu , Evangelos Kanoulas , Faegheh Hasibi

Generative models such as Large Language Models, Diffusion Models, and generative adversarial networks have recently revolutionized the creation of synthetic data, offering scalable solutions to data scarcity, privacy, and annotation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Dawei Li , Yue Huang , Ming Li , Tianyi Zhou , Xiangliang Zhang , Huan Liu

There is significant growth and interest in the use of synthetic data as an enabler for machine learning in environments where the release of real data is restricted due to privacy or availability constraints. Despite a large number of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Harrison Wilde , Jack Jewson , Sebastian Vollmer , Chris Holmes

Big data analysis poses the dual problem of privacy preservation and utility, i.e., how accurate data analyses remain after transforming original data in order to protect the privacy of the individuals that the data is about - and whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Md Sakib Nizam Khan , Niklas Reje , Sonja Buchegger

Machine learning has the potential to assist many communities in using the large datasets that are becoming more and more available. Unfortunately, much of that potential is not being realized because it would require sharing data in a way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 James Jordon , Jinsung Yoon , Mihaela van der Schaar

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

Tabular data is common yet typically incomplete, small in volume, and access-restricted due to privacy concerns. Synthetic data generation offers potential solutions. Many metrics exist for evaluating the quality of synthetic tabular data;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang , Baxter Eaves , Michael Schmidt , Ken Swanson , Patrick Shafto

Dataset Distillation (DD), a newly emerging field, aims at generating much smaller but efficient synthetic training datasets from large ones. Existing DD methods based on gradient matching achieve leading performance; however, they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Lei Zhang , Jie Zhang , Bowen Lei , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Xiang Pan , Bo Zhao , Caiwen Ding , Yao Li , Dongkuan Xu

The rapid growth in data availability has facilitated research and development, yet not all industries have benefited equally due to legal and privacy constraints. The healthcare sector faces significant challenges in utilizing patient data…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-18 Katariina Perkonoja , Kari Auranen , Joni Virta

The sharp increase in data-related expenses has motivated research into condensing datasets while retaining the most informative features. Dataset distillation has thus recently come to the fore. This paradigm generates synthetic datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Jiawei Du , Xin Zhang , Juncheng Hu , Wenxin Huang , Joey Tianyi Zhou