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Machine learning (ML) may be oblivious to human bias but it is not immune to its perpetuation. Marginalisation and iniquitous group representation are often traceable in the very data used for training, and may be reflected or even enhanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Stefano Sarao Mannelli , Federica Gerace , Negar Rostamzadeh , Luca Saglietti

This work presents a systematic benchmark of differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms that can generate tabular data. Utility of the synthetic data is evaluated by measuring whether the synthetic data preserve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuchao Tao , Ryan McKenna , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

There are many real-world classification problems wherein the issue of data imbalance (the case when a data set contains substantially more samples for one/many classes than the rest) is unavoidable. While under-sampling the problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 John McKay , Isaac Gerg , Vishal Monga

Synthetic data generation creates data based on real-world data using generative models. In health applications, generating high-quality data while maintaining fairness for sensitive attributes is essential for equitable outcomes. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Nitish Nagesh , Ziyu Wang , Amir M. Rahmani

The present study aimed to address the issue of imbalanced data in classification tasks and evaluated the suitability of SMOTE, ADASYN, and GAN techniques in generating synthetic data to address the class imbalance and improve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Nagarjuna Chereddy , Bharath Kumar Bolla

A significant impediment to progress in research on bias in machine learning (ML) is the availability of relevant datasets. This situation is unlikely to change much given the sensitivity of such data. For this reason, there is a role for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-05 William Blanzeisky , Pádraig Cunningham , Kenneth Kennedy

Machine learning applications are becoming increasingly pervasive in our society. Since these decision-making systems rely on data-driven learning, risk is that they will systematically spread the bias embedded in data. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Alessandro Castelnovo , Riccardo Crupi , Nicole Inverardi , Daniele Regoli , Andrea Cosentini

Learning from imbalanced data is one of the most significant challenges in real-world classification tasks. In such cases, neural networks performance is substantially impaired due to preference towards the majority class. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-13 Bronislav Yasinnik , Moshe Salhov , Ofir Lindenbaum , Amir Averbuch

Synthetic tabular data generation has emerged as a promising method to address limited data availability and privacy concerns. With the sharp increase in the performance of large language models in recent years, researchers have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Reilly Cannon , Nicolette M. Laird , Caesar Vazquez , Andy Lin , Amy Wagler , Tony Chiang

Synthetic data generation is integral to ML pipelines, e.g., to augment training data, replace sensitive information, and even to power advanced platforms like DeepSeek. While LLMs fine-tuned for synthetic data generation are gaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Shengzhe Xu , Cho-Ting Lee , Mandar Sharma , Raquib Bin Yousuf , Nikhil Muralidhar , Naren Ramakrishnan

Generative modelling has become the standard approach for synthesising tabular data. However, different use cases demand synthetic data to comply with different requirements to be useful in practice. In this survey, we review deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Thomas Lukasiewicz

The fact that image datasets are often imbalanced poses an intense challenge for deep learning techniques. In this paper, we propose a method to restore the balance in imbalanced images, by coalescing two concurrent methods, generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Pourya Shamsolmoali , Masoumeh Zareapoor , Linlin Shen , Abdul Hamid Sadka , Jie Yang

With the rising adoption of Machine Learning across the domains like banking, pharmaceutical, ed-tech, etc, it has become utmost important to adopt responsible AI methods to ensure models are not unfairly discriminating against any group.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Bhushan Chaudhari , Himanshu Chaudhary , Aakash Agarwal , Kamna Meena , Tanmoy Bhowmik

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

Synthetic healthcare data generation offers a promising solution to research limitations in clinical settings caused by privacy and regulatory constraints. However, current synthetic data generation approaches require specialized knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nitish Nagesh , Salar Shakibhamedan , Mahdi Bagheri , Ziyu Wang , Nima TaheriNejad , Axel Jantsch , Amir M. Rahmani

Ensuring the generalisability of clinical machine learning (ML) models across diverse healthcare settings remains a significant challenge due to variability in patient demographics, disease prevalence, and institutional practices. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Bradley Segal , Joshua Fieggen , David Clifton , Lei Clifton

This study is about inducing classifiers using data that is imbalanced, with a minority class being under-represented in relation to the majority classes. The first section of this research focuses on the main characteristics of data that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Shivaditya Shivganesh , Nitin Narayanan N , Pranav Murali , Ajaykumar M

Educational technologies nowadays increasingly use data and Machine Learning (ML) models. This gives the students, instructors, and administrators support and insights for the optimum policy. However, it is well acknowledged that ML models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Modar Sulaiman , Kallol Roy

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

Data augmentation is rapidly gaining attention in machine learning. Synthetic data can be generated by simple transformations or through the data distribution. In the latter case, the main challenge is to estimate the label associated to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Maria Perez-Ortiz , Peter Tino , Rafal Mantiuk , Cesar Hervas-Martinez