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Online social networks offer a valuable lens to analyze both individual and collective phenomena. Researchers often use simulators to explore controlled scenarios, and the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) makes these simulations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Elisa Composta , Nicolo' Fontana , Francesco Corso , Francesco Pierri

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 and Llama3 have significantly impacted various fields by enabling high-quality synthetic data generation and reducing dependence on expensive human-generated datasets. Despite this, challenges…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yue Huang , Siyuan Wu , Chujie Gao , Dongping Chen , Qihui Zhang , Yao Wan , Tianyi Zhou , Jianfeng Gao , Chaowei Xiao , Lichao Sun , Xiangliang Zhang

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) typically require extensive domain-specific conversational datasets, yet high costs, privacy concerns, and data-collection challenges severely limit their availability. Although Large Language Models…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Rohan Surana , Junda Wu , Zhouhang Xie , Yu Xia , Harald Steck , Dawen Liang , Nathan Kallus , Julian McAuley

Large language models (LLMs) have great potential for synthetic data generation. This work shows that useful data can be synthetically generated even for tasks that cannot be solved directly by LLMs: for problems with structured outputs, it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Martin Josifoski , Marija Sakota , Maxime Peyrard , Robert West

Computational models have emerged as powerful tools for multi-scale energy modeling research at the building and urban scale, supporting data-driven analysis across building and urban energy systems. However, these models require large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jackson Eshbaugh , Chetan Tiwari , Jorge Silveyra

The recent excitement around generative models has sparked a wave of proposals suggesting the replacement of human participation and labor in research and development--e.g., through surveys, experiments, and interviews--with synthetic…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Shivani Kapania , William Agnew , Motahhare Eslami , Hoda Heidari , Sarah Fox

We investigate the usefulness of generative Large Language Models (LLMs) in generating training data for cross-encoder re-rankers in a novel direction: generating synthetic documents instead of synthetic queries. We introduce a new dataset,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Arian Askari , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Evangelos Kanoulas , Suzan Verberne

Exponential growth in the quantity of digital news, social media, and other textual sources makes it difficult for humans to keep up with rapidly evolving narratives about world events. Various visualisation techniques have been touted to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Songhai Fan , Simon Angus , Tim Dwyer , Ying Yang , Sarah Goodwin , Helen Purchase

Problem: Effective patient-centered communication is a core competency for physicians. However, both seasoned providers and medical trainees report decreased confidence in leading conversations on sensitive topics such as goals of care or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Simon N. Chu , Alex J. Goodell

Recent approaches in skill matching, employing synthetic training data for classification or similarity model training, have shown promising results, reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive annotations. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Antoine Magron , Anna Dai , Mike Zhang , Syrielle Montariol , Antoine Bosselut

As Large Language Models (LLMs) and other forms of Generative AI permeate various aspects of our lives, their application for learning and education has provided opportunities and challenges. This paper presents an investigation into the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Daniel Leiker , Sara Finnigan , Ashley Ricker Gyllen , Mutlu Cukurova

The rapid development of the Internet has profoundly changed human life. Humans are increasingly expressing themselves and interacting with others on social media platforms. However, although artificial intelligence technology has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Haochen Xue , Chong Zhang , Chengzhi Liu , Fangyu Wu , Xiaobo Jin

This research explores the application of large language models (LLMs) to generate synthetic datasets for Product Desirability Toolkit (PDT) testing, a key component in evaluating user sentiment and product experience. Utilizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-11 John D. Hastings , Sherri Weitl-Harms , Joseph Doty , Zachary J. Myers , Warren Thompson

Fake news detection plays a crucial role in protecting social media users and maintaining a healthy news ecosystem. Among existing works, comment-based fake news detection methods are empirically shown as promising because comments could…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Qiong Nan , Qiang Sheng , Juan Cao , Beizhe Hu , Danding Wang , Jintao Li

Cluster analysis relies on effective benchmarks for evaluating and comparing different algorithms. Simulation studies on synthetic data are popular because important features of the data sets, such as the overlap between clusters, or the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Michael J. Zellinger , Peter Bühlmann

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being utilised across a range of tasks and domains, with a burgeoning interest in their application within the field of journalism. This trend raises concerns due to our limited understanding of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Filip Trhlik , Pontus Stenetorp

The success of large language models (LLMs) depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality instruction-following and reinforcement datasets. However, generating such data through human annotation is prohibitively time-consuming particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chenhua Shi , Gregor Macdonald , Bhavika Jalli , Wanlu Lei , John Zou , Mridul Jain , Joji Philip

With the growth of social media and large language models, content moderation has become crucial. Many existing datasets lack adequate representation of different groups, resulting in unreliable assessments. To tackle this, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shanu Kumar , Gauri Kholkar , Saish Mendke , Anubhav Sadana , Parag Agrawal , Sandipan Dandapat

Large language models (LLMs) present an exciting opportunity for generating synthetic classroom data. Such data could include code containing a typical distribution of errors, simulated student behaviour to address the cold start problem…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Stephen MacNeil , Magdalena Rogalska , Juho Leinonen , Paul Denny , Arto Hellas , Xandria Crosland

Concept generation is a creative step in the conceptual design phase, where designers often turn to brainstorming, mindmapping, or crowdsourcing design ideas to complement their own knowledge of the domain. Recent advances in natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Kevin Ma , Daniele Grandi , Christopher McComb , Kosa Goucher-Lambert