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Machine learning models have been criticized for reflecting unfair biases in the training data. Instead of solving for this by introducing fair learning algorithms directly, we focus on generating fair synthetic data, such that any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Boris van Breugel , Trent Kyono , Jeroen Berrevoets , Mihaela van der Schaar

In an era of rapidly advancing data-driven applications, there is a growing demand for data in both research and practice. Synthetic data have emerged as an alternative when no real data is available (e.g., due to privacy regulations).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Maria F. Davila R. , Sven Groen , Fabian Panse , Wolfram Wingerath

Privacy and regulatory constraints make data generation vital to advancing machine learning without relying on real-world datasets. A leading approach for tabular data generation is the Forest Flow (FF) method, which combines Flow Matching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ange-Clément Akazan , Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Ioannis Mitliagkas

Synthetic data generation is integral to ML pipelines, e.g., to augment training data, replace sensitive information, and even to power advanced platforms like DeepSeek. While LLMs fine-tuned for synthetic data generation are gaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Shengzhe Xu , Cho-Ting Lee , Mandar Sharma , Raquib Bin Yousuf , Nikhil Muralidhar , Naren Ramakrishnan

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

We introduce behavioral fidelity -- a third evaluation dimension for synthetic tabular data that measures whether generated data preserves the temporal, sequential, and structural behavioral patterns that distinguish real-world entity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Bhavana Sajja

Algorithms that ensure reproducible findings from large-scale, high-dimensional data are pivotal in numerous signal processing applications. In recent years, multivariate false discovery rate (FDR) controlling methods have emerged,…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-01-31 Jasin Machkour , Michael Muma , Daniel P. Palomar

Scene graphs (SGs) represent objects and their relationships as structured graphs, enabling applications in image generation, robotics, and 3D understanding. Recent work suggests that conditioning image generation on scene graphs improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rajalaxmi Rajagopalan , Romit Roy Choudhury

Generative models for tabular data have evolved rapidly beyond Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). While GANs pioneered synthetic tabular data generation, recent advances in diffusion models and large language models (LLMs) have opened…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Insaf Ashrapov

While synthetic tabular data generation using Deep Generative Models (DGMs) offers a compelling solution to data scarcity and privacy concerns, their effectiveness relies on the availability of substantial training data, often lacking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Patricia A. Apellániz , Ana Jiménez , Borja Arroyo Galende , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

Single Domain Generalization (SDG) aims to train models that maintain consistent performance across diverse scenarios using data from a single source. While latent diffusion models (LDMs) show promise for augmenting limited source data, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hao Li , Yubin Xiao , Ke Liang , Mengzhu Wang , Long Lan , Kenli Li , Xinwang Liu

Real-world databases are predominantly relational, comprising multiple interlinked tables that contain complex structural and statistical dependencies. Learning generative models on relational data has shown great promise in generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Valter Hudovernik , Minkai Xu , Juntong Shi , Lovro Šubelj , Stefano Ermon , Erik Štrumbelj , Jure Leskovec

The social graphs synthesized by the generative models are increasingly in demand due to data scarcity and concerns over user privacy. One of the key performance criteria for generating social networks is the fidelity to specified…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Jui-Yi Tsai , Ya-Wen Teng , Ho Chiok Yew , De-Nian Yang , Lydia Y. Chen

Deep learning (DL) models require extensive data to achieve strong performance and generalization. Deep generative models (DGMs) offer a solution by synthesizing data. Yet current approaches for tabular data often fail to preserve feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Minh H. Vu , Daniel Edler , Carl Wibom , Tommy Löfstedt , Beatrice Melin , Martin Rosvall

Diffusion model has become a main paradigm for synthetic data generation in many subfields of modern machine learning, including computer vision, language model, or speech synthesis. In this paper, we leverage the power of diffusion model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Namjoon Suh , Xiaofeng Lin , Din-Yin Hsieh , Merhdad Honarkhah , Guang Cheng

Federated learning (FL) enables training large language models (LLMs) without sharing raw data, but adapting LLMs under strict data isolation and non-IID client distributions remains challenging in practice. Synthetic data offers a natural…

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial topic for financial institutions, driven by multiple factors, such as privacy protection and data augmentation. Many algorithms have been proposed for synthetic data generation but reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Fadi Hamad , Saheed Obitayo , Vamsi K. Potluru

Individual-level data (microdata) that characterizes a population, is essential for studying many real-world problems. However, acquiring such data is not straightforward due to cost and privacy constraints, and access is often limited to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Angeela Acharya , Siddhartha Sikdar , Sanmay Das , Huzefa Rangwala

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a widely adopted privacy-preserving distributed training approach, attracting significant interest from both academia and industry. Research efforts have been dedicated to improving…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jer Shyuan Ng , Aditya Pribadi Kalapaaking , Xiaoyu Xia , Dusit Niyato , Ibrahim Khalil , Iqbal Gondal

Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in every stage of drug development. Continuing breakthroughs in AI-based methods for drug discovery require the creation, improvement, and refinement of drug discovery data. We posit a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Bing Hu , Ashish Saragadam , Anita Layton , Helen Chen