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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

An increasingly common practice is to train large language models (LLMs) using synthetic data. Often this synthetic data is produced by the same or similar LLMs as those it is being used to train. This raises the question of whether the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Lingze Zhang , Ellie Pavlick

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to interpret visual representations of data is crucial for advancing their application in data analysis and decision-making processes. This paper presents a novel synthetic dataset designed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Aneta Pawelec , Victoria Sara Wesołowska , Zuzanna Bączek , Piotr Sankowski

The increasing use of synthetic data generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) presents both opportunities and challenges in data-driven applications. While synthetic data provides a cost-effective, scalable alternative to real-world data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Tevin Atwal , Chan Nam Tieu , Yefeng Yuan , Zhan Shi , Yuhong Liu , Liang Cheng

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate synthetic textual data for training smaller specialized models. However, a comparison of various generation strategies for low-resource language settings is lacking. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Tatiana Anikina , Jan Cegin , Jakub Simko , Simon Ostermann

Although large language models (LLMs) have advanced the state-of-the-art in NLP significantly, deploying them for downstream applications is still challenging due to cost, responsiveness, control, or concerns around privacy and security. As…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Dong-Ho Lee , Jay Pujara , Mohit Sewak , Ryen W. White , Sujay Kumar Jauhar

The success of Large Language Models (LLMs) is inherently linked to the availability of vast, diverse, and high-quality data for training and evaluation. However, the growth rate of high-quality data is significantly outpaced by the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Ke Wang , Jiahui Zhu , Minjie Ren , Zeming Liu , Shiwei Li , Zongye Zhang , Chenkai Zhang , Xiaoyu Wu , Qiqi Zhan , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Current approaches to phrase break prediction address crucial prosodic aspects of text-to-speech systems but heavily rely on vast human annotations from audio or text, incurring significant manual effort and cost. Inherent variability in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Hoyeon Lee , Sejung Son , Ye-Eun Kang , Jong-Hwan Kim

Synthetic training data generation with Large Language Models (LLMs) like Google's Gemma and OpenAI's GPT offer a promising solution to the challenge of obtaining large, labeled datasets for training classifiers. When rapid model deployment…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for data generation. However, creating evaluation benchmarks raises the bar for this emerging paradigm. Benchmarks must target specific phenomena, penalize exploiting shortcuts, and be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alexander Gill , Abhilasha Ravichander , Ana Marasović

While large language models (LLMs) bring not only performance but also complexity, recent work has started to turn LLMs into data generators rather than task inferencers, where another affordable task model is trained for efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Jiacheng Ye , Chengzu Li , Lingpeng Kong , Tao Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for generating data across various modalities. By transforming data from a scarce resource into a controllable asset, LLMs mitigate the bottlenecks imposed by the acquisition costs…

The recent surge in research focused on generating synthetic data from large language models (LLMs), especially for scenarios with limited data availability, marks a notable shift in Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). Their ability to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Xu Guo , Yiqiang Chen

We investigate whether synthetic question-answer (QA) data generated by large language models (LLMs) can serve as an effective proxy for human-labeled benchmarks when the latter is unavailable. We assess the reliability of synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Jonas van Elburg , Peter van der Putten , Maarten Marx

Large Language Models (LLM) are increasingly trained on data generated by other LLM, either because generated text and images become part of the pre-training corpus, or because synthetized data is used as a replacement for expensive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yunzhen Feng , Elvis Dohmatob , Pu Yang , Francois Charton , Julia Kempe

Large Language Models are being used in conversational agents that simulate human conversations and generate social studies data. While concerns about the models' biases have been raised and discussed in the literature, much about the data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Guido Ivetta , Laura Moradbakhti , Rafael A. Calvo

The reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) play a critical role in many downstream tasks, yet depend strongly on the quality of training data. Despite various proposed data construction methods, their practical utility in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Yike Zhao , Simin Guo , Ziqing Yang , Shifan Han , Dahua Lin , Fei Tan

Despite recent advances in training and prompting strategies for Large Language Models (LLMs), these models continue to face challenges with complex logical reasoning tasks that involve long reasoning chains. In this work, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Jiaming Zhou , Abbas Ghaddar , Ge Zhang , Liheng Ma , Yaochen Hu , Soumyasundar Pal , Mark Coates , Bin Wang , Yingxue Zhang , Jianye Hao

Large Language Models (LLMs) represent a promising frontier for recommender systems, yet their development has been impeded by the absence of predictable scaling laws, which are crucial for guiding research and optimizing resource…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Benyu Zhang , Qiang Zhang , Jianpeng Cheng , Hong-You Chen , Qifei Wang , Wei Sun , Shen Li , Jia Li , Jiahao Wu , Xiangjun Fan , Hong Yan

This paper investigates the ability of large language models (LLMs) to solve statistical tasks, as well as their capacity to assess the quality of reasoning. While state-of-the-art LLMs have demonstrated remarkable performance in a range of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Crish Nagarkar , Leonid Bogachev , Serge Sharoff