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In this paper, we present a simple approach to train Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in order to avoid a \textit {mode collapse} issue. Implicit models such as GANs tend to generate better samples compared to explicit models that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Nasser M. Nasrabadi

Wasserstein GANs with Gradient Penalty (WGAN-GP) are a very popular method for training generative models to produce high quality synthetic data. While WGAN-GP were initially developed to calculate the Wasserstein 1 distance between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Tristan Milne , Adrian Nachman

Methods for the Generation of Synthetic Populations do generate the entities required for micro models or multi-agent models, such as they match field observations or hypothesis on the population under study. We tackle here the specific…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-11 Samuel Thiriot , Marie Sevenet

In this paper, we provide a method to generate synthetic population at various administrative levels for a country like India. This synthetic population is created using machine learning and statistical methods applied to survey data such…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Bhavesh Neekhra , Kshitij Kapoor , Debayan Gupta

Access to medical data is highly restricted due to its sensitive nature, preventing communities from using this data for research or clinical training. Common methods of de-identification implemented to enable the sharing of data are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-23 Anne Marie Delaney , Eoin Brophy , Tomas E. Ward

Time series synthesis is an important research topic in the field of deep learning, which can be used for data augmentation. Time series data types can be broadly classified into regular or irregular. However, there are no existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Jinsung Jeon , Jeonghak Kim , Haryong Song , Seunghyeon Cho , Noseong Park

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown success in approximating complex distributions for synthetic image generation. However, current GAN-based methods for generating biometric images, such as iris, have certain limitations: (a)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Shivangi Yadav , Arun Ross

This paper describes a new approach for training generative adversarial networks (GAN) to understand the detailed 3D shape of objects. While GANs have been used in this domain previously, they are notoriously hard to train, especially for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-01 Edward Smith , David Meger

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

The long-standing challenge of building effective classification models for small and imbalanced datasets has seen little improvement since the creation of the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) over 20 years ago. Though GAN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Leon O. Guertler , Andri Ashfahani , Anh Tuan Luu

Data plays a fundamental role in consolidating markets, services, and products in the digital financial ecosystem. However, the use of real data, especially in the financial context, can lead to privacy risks and access restrictions,…

This paper presents a novel, automated, generative adversarial networks (GAN) based synthetic feeder generation mechanism, abbreviated as FeederGAN. FeederGAN digests real feeder models represented by directed graphs via a deep learning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-13 Ming Liang , Yao Meng , Jiyu Wang , David Lubkeman , Ning Lu

In face-related applications with a public available dataset, synthesizing non-linear facial variations (e.g., facial expression, head-pose, illumination, etc.) through a generative model is helpful in addressing the lack of training data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-01 Geonmo Gu , Seong Tae Kim , Kihyun Kim , Wissam J. Baddar , Yong Man Ro

Generative models such as the variational autoencoder (VAE) and the generative adversarial networks (GAN) have proven to be incredibly powerful for the generation of synthetic data that preserves statistical properties and utility of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Moustafa Alzantot , Luis Garcia , Mani Srivastava

Generative models can serve as surrogates for some real data sources by creating synthetic training datasets, but in doing so they may transfer biases to downstream tasks. We focus on protecting quality and diversity when generating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Allen Chang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Serena Booth , Maja J. Matarić , Stefanos Nikolaidis

This work provides a solution to the challenge of small amounts of training data in Non-Destructive Ultrasonic Testing for composite components. It was demonstrated that direct simulation alone is ineffective at producing training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Shaun McKnight , S. Gareth Pierce , Ehsan Mohseni , Christopher MacKinnon , Charles MacLeod , Tom OHare , Charalampos Loukas

We combine hierarchical Bayesian modeling with a flow-based deep generative network, in order to demonstrate that one can efficiently constraint numerical gravitational wave (GW) population models at a previously intractable complexity.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 Kaze W. K. Wong , Gabriella Contardo , Shirley Ho

We propose a novel online test generation algorithm WOGAN based on Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks. WOGAN is a general-purpose black-box test generator applicable to any system under test having a fitness function for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Jarkko Peltomäki , Frankie Spencer , Ivan Porres

In this study, we explore the growing potential of AI and deep learning technologies, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), for generating synthetic tabular data. Access to quality students…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mohammad Khalil , Sam Urmian , Ronas Shakya , Qinyi Liu

Labeled handwriting data is often scarce, limiting the effectiveness of recognition systems that require diverse, style-consistent training samples. Handwriting synthesis offers a promising solution by generating artificial data to augment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Huynh Tong Dang Khoa , Dang Hoai Nam , Vo Nguyen Le Duy