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Synthetic data generators, when trained using privacy-preserving techniques like differential privacy, promise to produce synthetic data with formal privacy guarantees, facilitating the sharing of sensitive data. However, it is crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Flavio Hafner , Chang Sun

Synthetic data has gained attention for training large language models, but poor-quality data can harm performance (see, e.g., Shumailov et al. (2023); Seddik et al. (2024)). A potential solution is data pruning, which retains only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Aymane El Firdoussi , Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Soufiane Hayou , Reda Alami , Ahmed Alzubaidi , Hakim Hacid

We systematically study a wide variety of generative models spanning semantically-diverse image datasets to understand and improve the feature extractors and metrics used to evaluate them. Using best practices in psychophysics, we measure…

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved widespread popularity due to their unprecedented image generation capability. In particular, their ability to synthesize and modify human faces has spurred research into using generated face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Harrison Rosenberg , Shimaa Ahmed , Guruprasad V Ramesh , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Kassem Fawaz

This paper investigates the theoretical behavior of generative models under finite training populations. Within the stochastic interpolation generative framework, we derive closed-form expressions for the optimal velocity field and score…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Yunchen Li , Shaohui Lin , Zhou Yu

Recommendation systems must continuously adapt to evolving user behavior, yet the volume of data generated in large-scale streaming environments makes frequent full retraining impractical. This work investigates how targeted data selection…

Recent deep generative models (DGMs) such as generative adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have shown their impressive ability in generating high-fidelity photorealistic images. Although looking appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Ruyu Wang , Sabrina Schmedding , Marco F. Huber

Recent work argues that robust training requires substantially larger datasets than those required for standard classification. On CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100, this translates into a sizable robust-accuracy gap between models trained solely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Sven Gowal , Sylvestre-Alvise Rebuffi , Olivia Wiles , Florian Stimberg , Dan Andrei Calian , Timothy Mann

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

We investigate the impact of deep generative models on potential social biases in upcoming computer vision models. As the internet witnesses an increasing influx of AI-generated images, concerns arise regarding inherent biases that may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Tianwei Chen , Yusuke Hirota , Mayu Otani , Noa Garcia , Yuta Nakashima

In this paper, we address a key scientific problem in machine learning: Given a training set for an image classification task, can we train a generative model on this dataset to enhance the classification performance? (i.e., closed-set…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Haowen Wang , Guowei Zhang , Xiang Zhang , Zeyuan Chen , Haiyang Xu , Dou Hoon Kwark , Zhuowen Tu

Generative data augmentation, which scales datasets by obtaining fake labeled examples from a trained conditional generative model, boosts classification performance in various learning tasks including (semi-)supervised learning, few-shot…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Chenyu Zheng , Guoqiang Wu , Chongxuan Li

Large-scale generative models have shown impressive image-generation capabilities, propelled by massive data. However, this often inadvertently leads to the generation of harmful or inappropriate content and raises copyright concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Myeongseob Ko , Henry Li , Zhun Wang , Jonathan Patsenker , Jiachen T. Wang , Qinbin Li , Ming Jin , Dawn Song , Ruoxi Jia

As synthetic data proliferates across the Internet, it is often reused to train successive generations of generative models. This creates a ``self-consuming loop" that can lead to training instability or \textit{model collapse}. Common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zhongteng Cai , Yaxuan Wang , Yang Liu , Xueru Zhang

The proliferation of generative artificial intelligence has given rise to an interactive learning environment, where model parameters are continuously updated using not only data generated by natural processes, but also synthetic outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yuchen Wu , Kangjie Zhou , Weijie Su

As generative AI systems rapidly improve, a key question emerges: how do users adapt to these changes, and when does such adaptation matter for realizing performance gains? Drawing on theories of dynamic capabilities and IT complements, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Eaman Jahani , Benjamin S. Manning , Joe Zhang , Hong-Yi TuYe , Mohammed Alsobay , Christos Nicolaides , Siddharth Suri , David Holtz

In recent advances of deep generative models, face reenactment -manipulating and controlling human face, including their head movement-has drawn much attention for its wide range of applicability. Despite its strong expressiveness, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Takuya Yashima , Takuya Narihira , Tamaki Kojima

Sample-efficient online reinforcement learning often uses replay buffers to store experience for reuse when updating the value function. However, uniform replay is inefficient, since certain classes of transitions can be more relevant to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Renhao Wang , Kevin Frans , Pieter Abbeel , Sergey Levine , Alexei A. Efros

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

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