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Research and education in machine learning needs diverse, representative, and open datasets that contain sufficient samples to handle the necessary training, validation, and testing tasks. Currently, the Recommender Systems area includes a…

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In this paper we investigate the feasibility of using synthetic data to augment face datasets. In particular, we propose a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) that can disentangle identity-related attributes from non-identity-related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Daniel Sáez Trigueros , Li Meng , Margaret Hartnett

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been used to model the underlying probability distribution of sample based datasets. GANs are notoriuos for training difficulties and their dependence on arbitrary hyperparameters. One recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Thomas Pinetz , Daniel Soukup , Thomas Pock

Generating synthetic residential load data that can accurately represent actual electricity consumption patterns is crucial for effective power system planning and operation. The necessity for synthetic data is underscored by the inherent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xinyu Liang , Ziheng Wang , Hao Wang

Real active distribution networks with associated smart meter (SM) data are critical for power researchers. However, it is practically difficult for researchers to obtain such comprehensive datasets from utilities due to privacy concerns.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 Rong Yan , Yuxuan Yuan , Zhaoyu Wang , Guangchao Geng , Quanyuan Jiang

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been successful in producing outstanding results in areas as diverse as image, video, and text generation. Building on these successes, a large number of empirical studies have validated the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Gérard Biau , Maxime Sangnier , Ugo Tanielian

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful generative models, but suffer from training instability. The recently proposed Wasserstein GAN (WGAN) makes progress toward stable training of GANs, but sometimes can still generate only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Ishaan Gulrajani , Faruk Ahmed , Martin Arjovsky , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville

Privacy is an important concern for our society where sharing data with partners or releasing data to the public is a frequent occurrence. Some of the techniques that are being used to achieve privacy are to remove identifiers, alter…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Noseong Park , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Kshitij Gorde , Sushil Jajodia , Hongkyu Park , Youngmin Kim

The generation of synthetic medical records using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is becoming crucial for addressing privacy concerns and facilitating data sharing in the medical domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tomohiro Kikuchi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Harushi Mori , Takeharu Yoshikawa

The ability to synthesize realistic patterns of neural activity is crucial for studying neural information processing. Here we used the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) framework to simulate the concerted activity of a population of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2018-04-18 Manuel Molano-Mazon , Arno Onken , Eugenio Piasini , Stefano Panzeri

Obtaining reliable data describing local poverty metrics at a granularity that is informative to policy-makers requires expensive and logistically difficult surveys, particularly in the developing world. Not surprisingly, the poverty…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Anthony Perez , Swetava Ganguli , Stefano Ermon , George Azzari , Marshall Burke , David Lobell

Synthetic data generation is an appealing tool for augmenting and enriching datasets, playing a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Not only does synthetic data help build robust AI/ML datasets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 José Pulido , Francesc Wilhelmi , Sergio Fortes , Alfonso Fernández-Durán , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Raquel Barco

We present a deep neural network based singing voice synthesizer, inspired by the Deep Convolutions Generative Adversarial Networks (DCGAN) architecture and optimized using the Wasserstein-GAN algorithm. We use vocoder parameters for…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Pritish Chandna , Merlijn Blaauw , Jordi Bonada , Emilia Gomez

This paper presents a methodology and workflow that overcome the limitations of the conventional Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for geological facies modeling. It attempts to improve the training stability and guarantee the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Lingchen Zhu , Tuanfeng Zhang

Artificial data synthesis is currently a well studied topic with useful applications in data science, computer vision, graphics and many other fields. Generating realistic data is especially challenging since human perception is highly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gil Shamai , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Substantial quantity and high quality are the golden rules of making a good training dataset with sample privacy protection equally important. Generating synthetic samples that resemble high-quality private data while ensuring Differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Tianyuan Zou , Yang Liu , Peng Li , Yufei Xiong , Jianqing Zhang , Jingjing Liu , Xiaozhou Ye , Ye Ouyang , Ya-Qin Zhang

Despite various breakthroughs in machine learning and data analysis techniques for improving smart operation and management of urban water infrastructures, some key limitations obstruct this progress. Among these shortcomings, the absence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Amin E. Bakhshipour , Alireza Koochali , Ulrich Dittmer , Ali Haghighi , Sheraz Ahmad , Andreas Dengel

Agent-based transportation modelling has become the standard to simulate travel behaviour, mobility choices and activity preferences using disaggregate travel demand data for entire populations, data that are not typically readily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq , Zachary Paterson

Generating realistic graph-structured data is challenging due to discrete structures, variable sizes, and class-specific connectivity patterns that resist conventional generative modelling. While recent graph generation methods employ…

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