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The switch from a Model-Centric to a Data-Centric mindset is putting emphasis on data and its quality rather than algorithms, bringing forward new challenges. In particular, the sensitive nature of the information in highly regulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Giorgio Visani , Giacomo Graffi , Mattia Alfero , Enrico Bagli , Davide Capuzzo , Federico Chesani

In the realm of medical imaging, the training of machine learning models necessitates a large and varied training dataset to ensure robustness and interoperability. However, acquiring such diverse and heterogeneous data can be difficult due…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-03 Manuel Cossio

Data visualization is the process by which data of any size or dimensionality is processed to produce an understandable set of data in a lower dimensionality, allowing it to be manipulated and understood more easily by people. The goal of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Alexander Kiefer , Md. Khaledur Rahman

Aerial-view human detection has a large demand for large-scale data to capture more diverse human appearances compared to ground-view human detection. Therefore, synthetic data can be a good resource to expand data, but the domain gap with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Hyungtae Lee , Yan Zhang , Yi-Ting Shen , Heesung Kwon , Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya

Despite recent advances in synthetic data generation, the scientific community still lacks a unified consensus on its usefulness. It is commonly believed that synthetic data can be used for both data exchange and boosting machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Dionysis Manousakas , Sergül Aydöre

Collecting, analyzing and gaining insight from large volumes of data is now the norm in an ever increasing number of industries. Data analytics techniques, such as machine learning, are powerful tools used to analyze these large volumes of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Karl Mason , Sadegh Vejdan , Santiago Grijalva

This paper explores three simple data manipulation techniques (synthesis, augmentation, curriculum) for improving abstractive summarization models without the need for any additional data. We introduce a method of data synthesis with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ahmed Magooda , Diane Litman

Data augmentation is often used to enlarge datasets with synthetic samples generated in accordance with the underlying data distribution. To enable a wider range of augmentations, we explore negative data augmentation strategies (NDA)that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Abhishek Sinha , Kumar Ayush , Jiaming Song , Burak Uzkent , Hongxia Jin , Stefano Ermon

Data holders can produce synthetic versions of datasets when concerns about potential disclosure restrict the availability of the original records. This paper is concerned with methods to judge whether such synthetic data have a…

Applications · Statistics 2017-06-20 Joshua Snoke , Gillian Raab , Beata Nowok , Chris Dibben , Aleksandra Slavkovic

Recently, increasing attention has been drawn to training semantic segmentation models using synthetic data and computer-generated annotation. However, domain gap remains a major barrier and prevents models learned from synthetic data from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Yuhua Chen , Wen Li , Xiaoran Chen , Luc Van Gool

Existing private synthetic data generation algorithms are agnostic to downstream tasks. However, end users may have specific requirements that the synthetic data must satisfy. Failure to meet these requirements could significantly reduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Hao Wang , Shivchander Sudalairaj , John Henning , Kristjan Greenewald , Akash Srivastava

In today's business landscape, organizations need to find the right balance between using their customers' data ethically to power AI solutions and being compliant regarding data privacy and data usage regulations. In this paper, we discuss…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Aditi Godbole

Modern computer vision systems increasingly encounter performance limitations in data-scarce domains, where collecting large-scale, high-quality labeled data is costly or impractical. While controllable diffusion models enable scalable…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Yukang Shen

Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting between traditional resampling techniques and modern deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa , Ashfaq Ali Shafin , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

The evaluation of synthetic data generation is crucial, especially in the retail sector where data accuracy is paramount. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for assessing synthetic retail data, focusing on fidelity, utility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Xia , Chi-Hua Wang , Joshua Mabry , Guang Cheng

Dataset distillation aims to minimize the time and memory needed for training deep networks on large datasets, by creating a small set of synthetic images that has a similar generalization performance to that of the full dataset. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Xuxi Chen , Yu Yang , Zhangyang Wang , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Data augmentation using generative models has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing performance in computer vision tasks. However, most existing augmentation approaches primarily focus on optimizing intrinsic data attributes -- such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Jiyu Guo , Shuo Yang , Yiming Huang , Yancheng Long , Xiaobo Xia , Xiu Su , Bo Zhao , Zeke Xie , Liqiang Nie

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

In distributed computing environments, collaborative machine learning enables multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively. To preserve privacy in such settings, a common technique is to utilize frequent updates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Chia-Yuan Wu , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson

The utilization of statistical methods an their applications within the new field of study known as Topological Data Analysis has has tremendous potential for broadening our exploration and understanding of complex, high-dimensional data…

Applications · Statistics 2016-07-19 Patrick S. Medina , R. W. Doerge