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Synthetic data generation is increasingly important due to privacy concerns. While Autoencoder-based approaches have been widely used for this purpose, sampling from their latent spaces can be challenging. Mixture models are currently the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Aymene Mohammed Bouayed , David Naccache

We propose a training-free approach to improve sentence embeddings leveraging test-time compute by applying generative text models for data augmentation at inference time. Unlike conventional data augmentation that utilises synthetic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Manuel Frank , Haithem Afli

Deep metric learning aims to learn embeddings that contain semantic similarity information among data points. To learn better embeddings, methods to generate synthetic hard samples have been proposed. Existing methods of synthetic hard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Geonmo Gu , Byungsoo Ko

A common and effective means for improving language model capabilities involves finetuning a ``student'' language model's parameters on generations from a more proficient ``teacher'' model. Termed ``synthetic data'', these generations are…

Collecting, analyzing and gaining insight from large volumes of data is now the norm in an ever increasing number of industries. Data analytics techniques, such as machine learning, are powerful tools used to analyze these large volumes of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Karl Mason , Sadegh Vejdan , Santiago Grijalva

The capability gap between open-source and closed-source large language models (LLMs) remains a challenge in text-to-SQL tasks. In this paper, we introduce a synthetic data approach that combines data produced by larger, more powerful…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Jiaxi Yang , Binyuan Hui , Min Yang , Jian Yang , Junyang Lin , Chang Zhou

Accurately evaluating model performance is crucial for deploying machine learning systems in real-world applications. Traditional methods often require a sufficiently large labeled test set to ensure a reliable evaluation. However, in many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hai Hoang Thanh , Duy-Tung Nguyen , Hung The Tran , Khoat Than

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

An insufficient number of training samples is a common problem in neural network applications. While data augmentation methods require at least a minimum number of samples, we propose a novel, rendering-based pipeline for synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Andreas Spruck , Maximilane Gruber , Anatol Maier , Denise Moussa , Jürgen Seiler , Christian Riess , André Kaup

Defect segmentation is crucial for quality control in advanced manufacturing, yet data scarcity poses challenges for state-of-the-art supervised deep learning. Synthetic defect data generation is a popular approach for mitigating data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Shancong Mou , Raviteja Vemulapalli , Shiyu Li , Yuxuan Liu , C Thomas , Meng Cao , Haoping Bai , Oncel Tuzel , Ping Huang , Jiulong Shan , Jianjun Shi

Computational cost of training state-of-the-art deep models in many learning problems is rapidly increasing due to more sophisticated models and larger datasets. A recent promising direction for reducing training cost is dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Bo Zhao , Hakan Bilen

Synthetic data has the potential to improve the performance, training efficiency, and privacy of real training examples. Nevertheless, existing approaches for synthetic text generation are mostly heuristics and cannot generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Dang Nguyen , Zeman Li , Mohammadhossein Bateni , Vahab Mirrokni , Meisam Razaviyayn , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

Healthcare research and development face significant obstacles due to data scarcity and stringent privacy regulations, such as HIPAA and the GDPR, restricting access to essential real-world medical data. These limitations impede innovation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Md Ibrahim Shikder Mahin , Md Shamsul Arefin , Md Tanvir Hasan

Semantic scene understanding is crucial for robotics and computer vision applications. In autonomous driving, 3D semantic segmentation plays an important role for enabling safe navigation. Despite significant advances in the field, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Embedding models are crucial to modern NLP. However, the creation of the most effective models relies on carefully constructed supervised finetuning data. For high resource languages, such as English, such datasets are readily available.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Merve Basoz , Andrew Horne , Mattia Opper

As the state-of-the-art machine learning methods in many fields rely on larger datasets, storing datasets and training models on them become significantly more expensive. This paper proposes a training set synthesis technique for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Bo Zhao , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Hakan Bilen

Most large language models are fine-tuned using either expensive human-annotated data or GPT-4 generated data which cannot guarantee performance in certain domains. We argue that although the web-crawled data often has formatting errors…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jing Zhou , Chenglin Jiang , Wei Shen , Xiao Zhou , Xiaonan He

Machine learning has significant potential for optimizing various industrial processes. However, data acquisition remains a major challenge as it is both time-consuming and costly. Synthetic data offers a promising solution to augment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Georg Rottenwalter , Marcel Tilly , Christian Bielenberg , Katharina Obermeier

In this paper, we propose three methods for generating synthetic samples to train and evaluate multimodal large language models capable of processing both text and speech inputs. Addressing the scarcity of samples containing both…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Vahid Noroozi , Zhehuai Chen , Somshubra Majumdar , Steve Huang , Jagadeesh Balam , Boris Ginsburg

With the rise of low power speech-enabled devices, there is a growing demand to quickly produce models for recognizing arbitrary sets of keywords. As with many machine learning tasks, one of the most challenging parts in the model creation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 James Lin , Kevin Kilgour , Dominik Roblek , Matthew Sharifi