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While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) limit its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as alternative to enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

The generation of high-quality synthetic data presents significant challenges in machine learning research, particularly regarding statistical fidelity and uncertainty quantification. Existing generative models produce compelling synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Rahul Vishwakarma , Shrey Dharmendra Modi , Vishwanath Seshagiri

Synthetic data algorithms are widely employed in industries to generate artificial data for downstream learning tasks. While existing research primarily focuses on empirically evaluating utility of synthetic data, its theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-04 Shirong Xu , Will Wei Sun , Guang Cheng

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used widely to generate large volumes of synthetic data. This data is being utilized for augmenting with real examples in order to train deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). Studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Binod Bhattarai , Seungryul Baek , Rumeysa Bodur , Tae-Kyun Kim

The use of deep learning for database optimization has gained significant traction, offering improvements in indexing, cardinality estimation, and query optimization. However, acquiring high-quality training data remains a significant…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Angjela Davitkova , Sebastian Michel

This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically outline the importance of synthetic data generation in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Conor Hassan , Robert Salomone , Kerrie Mengersen

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

Synthetic data generation has been widely adopted in software testing, data privacy, imbalanced learning, and artificial intelligence explanation. In all such contexts, it is crucial to generate plausible data samples. A common assumption…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Martina Cinquini , Fosca Giannotti , Riccardo Guidotti

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn considerable attention in recent years for their proven capability in generating synthetic data which can be utilised for multiple purposes. While GANs have demonstrated tremendous successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Abdallah Alshantti , Damiano Varagnolo , Adil Rasheed , Aria Rahmati , Frank Westad

Training large language models (LLMs) for external tool usage is a rapidly expanding field, with recent research focusing on generating synthetic data to address the shortage of available data. However, the absence of systematic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Shadi Iskander , Nachshon Cohen , Zohar Karnin , Ori Shapira , Sofia Tolmach

Quantization is a widely adopted technique for deep neural networks to reduce the memory and computational resources required. However, when quantized, most models would need a suitable calibration process to keep their performance intact,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Athanasios Masouris , Mansi Sharma , Adrian Boguszewski , Alexander Kozlov , Zhuo Wu , Raymond Lo

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

Faced with the challenges of patient confidentiality and scientific reproducibility, research on machine learning for health is turning towards the conception of synthetic medical databases. This article presents a brief overview of…

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy

Synthetic data generation, leveraging generative machine learning techniques, offers a promising approach to mitigating privacy concerns associated with real-world data usage. Synthetic data closely resembles real-world data while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Weijie Niu , Alberto Huertas Celdran , Karoline Siarsky , Burkhard Stiller

The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and high costs. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ruibo Liu , Jerry Wei , Fangyu Liu , Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Jinmeng Rao , Steven Zheng , Daiyi Peng , Diyi Yang , Denny Zhou , Andrew M. Dai

With the advent of generative modeling techniques, synthetic data and its use has penetrated across various domains from unstructured data such as image, text to structured dataset modeling healthcare outcome, risk decisioning in financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Aman Gupta , Deepak Bhatt , Anubha Pandey

Handling imbalance in class distribution when building a classifier over tabular data has been a problem of long-standing interest. One popular approach is augmenting the training dataset with synthetically generated data. While classical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Annie D'souza , Swetha M , Sunita Sarawagi

Large generative language models such as GPT-2 are well-known for their ability to generate text as well as their utility in supervised downstream tasks via fine-tuning. Our work is twofold: firstly we demonstrate via human evaluation that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Dara Bahri , Yi Tay , Che Zheng , Donald Metzler , Cliff Brunk , Andrew Tomkins

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a promising technique for utilizing private datasets that otherwise cannot be exposed for model training or other analytics. While much research literature has focused on generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shuaiqi Wang , Vikas Raunak , Arturs Backurs , Victor Reis , Pei Zhou , Sihao Chen , Longqi Yang , Zinan Lin , Sergey Yekhanin , Giulia Fanti