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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…

Supervised machine learning utilizes large datasets, often with ground truth labels annotated by humans. While some data points are easy to classify, others are hard to classify, which reduces the inter-annotator agreement. This causes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Andrea Papenmeier , Dagmar Kern , Daniel Hienert , Yvonne Kammerer , Christin Seifert

Contrastive learning (CL), a self-supervised learning approach, can effectively learn visual representations from unlabeled data. Given the CL training data, generative models can be trained to generate synthetic data to supplement the real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Yawen Wu , Zhepeng Wang , Dewen Zeng , Yiyu Shi , Jingtong Hu

In the context of text classification, the financial burden of annotation exercises for creating training data is a critical issue. Active learning techniques, particularly those rooted in uncertainty sampling, offer a cost-effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Hamidreza Rouzegar , Masoud Makrehchi

Data plays a pivotal role in Text-Based Person Retrieval (TBPR) research. Mainstream research paradigm necessitates real-world person images with manual textual annotations for training models, posing privacy concerns and annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Min Cao , Yuxin Lu , Ziyin Zeng , Dong Yi , Jinqiao Wang , Mang Ye

Machine learning systems require representations of the real world for training and testing - they require data, and lots of it. Collecting data at scale has logistical and ethical challenges, and synthetic data promises a solution to these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Cedric Deslandes Whitney , Justin Norman

Existing work on VQA explores data augmentation to achieve better generalization by perturbing the images in the dataset or modifying the existing questions and answers. While these methods exhibit good performance, the diversity of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Paola Cascante-Bonilla , Hui Wu , Letao Wang , Rogerio Feris , Vicente Ordonez

Response generation is a task in natural language processing (NLP) where a model is trained to respond to human statements. Conversational response generators take this one step further with the ability to respond within the context of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Gabriel Louis Tan , Adrian Paule Ty , Schuyler Ng , Denzel Adrian Co , Jan Christian Blaise Cruz , Charibeth Cheng

Usability evaluation is crucial in human-centered design but can be costly, requiring expert time and user compensation. In this work, we developed a method for synthetic heuristic evaluation using multimodal LLMs' ability to analyze images…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Ruican Zhong , David W. McDonald , Gary Hsieh

Surveys provide valuable insights into public opinion and behavior, but their execution is costly and slow. Large language models (LLMs) have been proposed as a scalable, low-cost substitute for human respondents, but their outputs are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Stefan Krsteski , Giuseppe Russo , Serina Chang , Robert West , Kristina Gligorić

Recent approaches to large language model (LLM) alignment typically require millions of human annotations or rely on external aligned models for synthetic data generation. This paper introduces ALMA: Alignment with Minimal Annotation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Michihiro Yasunaga , Leonid Shamis , Chunting Zhou , Andrew Cohen , Jason Weston , Luke Zettlemoyer , Marjan Ghazvininejad

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

Synthetic participants represent a methodologically concerning concept that threatens the integrity of UX research. Findings from previous experiments specify how AI outputs are misaligned with the behaviors and thoughts of real humans in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Eduard Kuric , Peter Demcak , Matus Krajcovic

In the realm of Computational Social Science (CSS), practitioners often navigate complex, low-resource domains and face the costly and time-intensive challenges of acquiring and annotating data. We aim to establish a set of guidelines to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Anders Giovanni Møller , Jacob Aarup Dalsgaard , Arianna Pera , Luca Maria Aiello

Automated fact-checking is a needed technology to curtail the spread of online misinformation. One current framework for such solutions proposes to verify claims by retrieving supporting or refuting evidence from related textual sources.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Yibing Du , Antoine Bosselut , Christopher D. Manning

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has accentuated the need for diverse, high-quality pre-training data. Synthetic data emerges as a viable solution to the challenges of data scarcity and inaccessibility. While previous literature has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Hao Chen , Abdul Waheed , Xiang Li , Yidong Wang , Jindong Wang , Bhiksha Raj , Marah I. Abdin

As Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities advance, the demand for high-quality annotation of exponentially increasing text corpora has outpaced human capacity, leading to the widespread adoption of LLMs in automatic evaluation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Jiayu Wang , Junyoung Lee

Synthesizing relational data has started to receive more attention from researchers, practitioners, and industry. The task is more difficult than synthesizing a single table due to the added complexity of relationships between tables. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Valter Hudovernik , Martin Jurkovič , Erik Štrumbelj

Synthetic data has emerged as a promising source for 3D human research as it offers low-cost access to large-scale human datasets. To advance the diversity and annotation quality of human models, we introduce a new synthetic dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Zhitao Yang , Zhongang Cai , Haiyi Mei , Shuai Liu , Zhaoxi Chen , Weiye Xiao , Yukun Wei , Zhongfei Qing , Chen Wei , Bo Dai , Wayne Wu , Chen Qian , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu , Lei Yang

Nowadays, data augmentation through synthetic data has been widely used in the field of Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) to alleviate the problem of data scarcity. However, these synthetic data are mainly used in the pre-training phase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Yixuan Wang , Baoxin Wang , Yijun Liu , Qingfu Zhu , Dayong Wu , Wanxiang Che