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A common assumption in causal modeling posits that the data is generated by a set of independent mechanisms, and algorithms should aim to recover this structure. Standard unsupervised learning, however, is often concerned with training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-05 Francesco Locatello , Damien Vincent , Ilya Tolstikhin , Gunnar Rätsch , Sylvain Gelly , Bernhard Schölkopf

Synthetic data has been increasingly used to train frontier generative models. However, recent studies raise key concerns that iteratively retraining a generative model on its self-generated synthetic data may keep deteriorating model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-09 Bingji Yi , Qiyuan Liu , Yuwei Cheng , Haifeng Xu

For a fixed parameter size, the capabilities of large models are primarily determined by the quality and quantity of its training data. Consequently, training datasets now grow faster than the rate at which new data is indexed on the web,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Minqi Jiang , João G. M. Araújo , Will Ellsworth , Sian Gooding , Edward Grefenstette

Recent research has highlighted the risk of generative model collapse, where performance progressively degrades when continually trained on self-generated data. However, existing exploration on model collapse is limited to single, unimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Zizhao Hu , Mohammad Rostami , Jesse Thomason

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

In this paper, we propose novel generative models for creating adversarial examples, slightly perturbed images resembling natural images but maliciously crafted to fool pre-trained models. We present trainable deep neural networks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Omid Poursaeed , Isay Katsman , Bicheng Gao , Serge Belongie

The artificial intelligence (AI) world is running out of real data for training increasingly large generative models, resulting in accelerating pressure to train on synthetic data. Unfortunately, training new generative models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Sina Alemohammad , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun , Shruti Agarwal , John Collomosse , Richard Baraniuk

Big data analysis poses the dual problem of privacy preservation and utility, i.e., how accurate data analyses remain after transforming original data in order to protect the privacy of the individuals that the data is about - and whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Md Sakib Nizam Khan , Niklas Reje , Sonja Buchegger

Convolutional and recurrent neural networks have been widely employed to achieve state-of-the-art performance on classification tasks. However, it has also been noted that these networks can be manipulated adversarially with relative ease,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Shankar A. Deka , Dušan M. Stipanović , Claire J. Tomlin

This work studies training generative adversarial networks under the federated learning setting. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have achieved advancement in various real-world applications, such as image editing, style transfer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chenyou Fan , Ping Liu

Collecting large-scale datasets is crucial for training deep models, annotating the data, however, inevitably yields noisy labels, which poses challenges to deep learning algorithms. Previous efforts tend to mitigate this problem via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Yuanpeng Tu , Boshen Zhang , Yuxi Li , Liang Liu , Jian Li , Jiangning Zhang , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Cai Rong Zhao

Synthetic data has been hailed as the silver bullet for privacy preserving data analysis. If a record is not real, then how could it violate a person's privacy? In addition, deep-learning based generative models are employed successfully to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Benedikt Groß , Gerhard Wunder

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are gaining increasing attention as a means for synthesising data. So far much of this work has been applied to use cases outside of the data confidentiality domain with a common application being the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Claire Little , Mark Elliot , Richard Allmendinger , Sahel Shariati Samani

Programmatically generated synthetic data has been used in differential private training for classification to enhance performance without privacy leakage. However, as the synthetic data is generated from a random process, the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujin Choi , Jinseong Park , Junyoung Byun , Jaewook Lee

Machine learning models are frequently used to solve complex security problems, as well as to make decisions in sensitive situations like guiding autonomous vehicles or predicting financial market behaviors. Previous efforts have shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-29 Nicolas Papernot , Patrick McDaniel , Ananthram Swami , Richard Harang

The ubiquitous nature of chatbots and their interaction with users generate an enormous amount of data. Can we improve chatbots using this data? A self-feeding chatbot improves itself by asking natural language feedback when a user is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar , Kun Ni , Siva Reddy

Synthetic data generators, when trained using privacy-preserving techniques like differential privacy, promise to produce synthetic data with formal privacy guarantees, facilitating the sharing of sensitive data. However, it is crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Flavio Hafner , Chang Sun

Deep neural networks have proven to be quite effective in a wide variety of machine learning tasks, ranging from improved speech recognition systems to advancing the development of autonomous vehicles. However, despite their superior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-14 Qinglong Wang , Wenbo Guo , Alexander G. Ororbia , Xinyu Xing , Lin Lin , C. Lee Giles , Xue Liu , Peng Liu , Gang Xiong

Recognizing 3D point cloud plays a pivotal role in many real-world applications. However, deploying 3D point cloud deep learning model is vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Despite many efforts into developing robust model by adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jinpeng Lin , Xulei Yang , Tianrui Li , Xun Xu

The widespread adoption of synthetic data raises new questions about how models generating the data can influence other large language models (LLMs) via distilled data. To start, our work exhaustively characterizes the impact of passive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Luísa Shimabucoro , Sebastian Ruder , Julia Kreutzer , Marzieh Fadaee , Sara Hooker