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Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. However, it is a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Marco Huber , Anh Thi Luu , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

The artificial intelligence (AI) world is running out of real data for training increasingly large generative models, resulting in accelerating pressure to train on synthetic data. Unfortunately, training new generative models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sina Alemohammad , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Shruti Agarwal , John Collomosse , Richard Baraniuk

Exploiting the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, showcased by ChatGPT and DALL-E, in real-world applications necessitates vast, domain-specific, and publicly accessible datasets. Unfortunately, the scarcity of such datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Cyril Picard , Jürg Schiffmann , Faez Ahmed

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled a range of applications in zero-shot and few-shot learning settings, including the generation of synthetic datasets for training and testing. However, to reliably use these synthetic datasets, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Gaurav Maheshwari , Dmitry Ivanov , Kevin El Haddad

Collecting high-quality training data is essential for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs). However, acquiring such data is often costly and time-consuming, especially for non-English languages such as Italian. Recently, researchers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Fatemeh Mohammadi , Tommaso Romano , Samira Maghool , Paolo Ceravolo

Training data is at the core of any successful text-to-image models. The quality and descriptiveness of image text are crucial to a model's performance. Given the noisiness and inconsistency in web-scraped datasets, recent works shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Manuel Brack , Sudeep Katakol , Felix Friedrich , Patrick Schramowski , Hareesh Ravi , Kristian Kersting , Ajinkya Kale

The use of synthetically generated data for training models is becoming a common practice. While generated data can augment the training data, repeated training on synthetic data raises concerns about distribution drift and degradation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Daniil Zverev , A. Sophia Koepke , Joao F. Henriques

Synthetic data offers a promising solution to privacy concerns in healthcare by generating useful datasets in a privacy-aware manner. However, although synthetic data is typically developed with the intention of sharing said data, ambiguous…

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Data augmentations are useful in closing the sim-to-real domain gap when training on synthetic data. This is because they widen the training data distribution, thus encouraging the model to generalize better to other domains. Many image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Bram Vanherle , Nick Michiels , Frank Van Reeth

Ensuring safe adoption of AI tools in healthcare hinges on access to sufficient data for training, testing and validation. In response to privacy concerns and regulatory requirements, using synthetic data has been suggested. Synthetic data…

Synthetic data is becoming increasingly common for training computer vision models for a variety of tasks. Notably, such data has been applied in tasks related to humans such as 3D pose estimation where data is either difficult to create or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Jake Deane , Sinead Kearney , Kwang In Kim , Darren Cosker

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare, but it requires access to health data. Synthetic data that is generated through machine learning models trained on real data, offers a way to share data while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Anne Kjersti C. Befring , Severin Elvatun , Jan Franz Nygaard

As synthetic imagery is used more frequently in training deep models, it is important to understand how different synthesis techniques impact the performance of such models. In this work, we perform a thorough evaluation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Kristofer Schlachter , Connor DeFanti , Sebastian Herscher , Ken Perlin , Jonathan Tompson

Using additional training data is known to improve the results, especially for medical image 3D segmentation where there is a lack of training material and the model needs to generalize well from few available data. However, the new data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 George Stoica , Mihaela Breaban , Vlad Barbu

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

The Surface Realization Shared Tasks of 2018 and 2019 were Natural Language Generation shared tasks with the goal of exploring approaches to surface realization from Universal-Dependency-like trees to surface strings for several languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Henry Elder , Robert Burke , Alexander O'Connor , Jennifer Foster

Differentially private training algorithms like DP-SGD protect sensitive training data by ensuring that trained models do not reveal private information. An alternative approach, which this paper studies, is to use a sensitive dataset to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Liam MacDermed , Andreas Terzis

Learning robust object detectors from only a handful of images is a critical challenge in industrial vision systems, where collecting high quality training data can take months. Synthetic data has emerged as a key solution for data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Brandon Trabucco , Qasim Wani , Benjamin Pikus , Vasu Sharma

Although highly valuable for a variety of applications, urban mobility data is rarely made openly available as it contains sensitive personal information. Synthetic data aims to solve this issue by generating artificial data that resembles…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Alexandra Kapp , Julia Hansmeyer , Helena Mihaljević