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Generating synthetic data through generative models is gaining interest in the ML community and beyond, promising a future where datasets can be tailored to individual needs. Unfortunately, synthetic data is usually not perfect, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Boris van Breugel , Zhaozhi Qian , Mihaela van der Schaar

Generating synthetic data through generative models is gaining interest in the ML community and beyond. In the past, synthetic data was often regarded as a means to private data release, but a surge of recent papers explore how its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Boris van Breugel , Mihaela van der Schaar

Generative modeling has been used frequently in synthetic data generation. Fairness and privacy are two big concerns for synthetic data. Although Recent GAN [\cite{goodfellow2014generative}] based methods show good results in preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Weijie Xu , Jinjin Zhao , Francis Iannacci , Bo Wang

$\textbf{Background:}$ At the onset of a pandemic, such as COVID-19, data with proper labeling/attributes corresponding to the new disease might be unavailable or sparse. Machine Learning (ML) models trained with the available data, which…

Deep generative models (DGMs) have the potential to revolutionize diagnostic imaging. Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one kind of DGM which are widely employed. The overarching problem with deploying GANs, and other DGMs, in any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rucha Deshpande , Mark A. Anastasio , Frank J. Brooks

Recommendation systems make predictions chiefly based on users' historical interaction data (e.g., items previously clicked or purchased). There is a risk of privacy leakage when collecting the users' behavior data for building the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Fan Liu , Zhiyong Cheng , Huilin Chen , Yinwei Wei , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Data imbalance in training data often leads to biased predictions from trained models, which in turn causes ethical and social issues. A straightforward solution is to carefully curate training data, but given the enormous scale of modern…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Moon Ye-Bin , Nam Hyeon-Woo , Wonseok Choi , Nayeong Kim , Suha Kwak , Tae-Hyun Oh

Training a deep learning model with artificially generated data can be an alternative when training data are scarce, yet it suffers from poor generalization performance due to a large domain gap. In this paper, we characterize the domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Gilhyun Nam , Gyeongjae Choi , Kyungmin Lee

Causal machine learning has the potential to revolutionize decision-making by combining the predictive power of machine learning algorithms with the theory of causal inference. However, these methods remain underutilized by the broader…

Score-based graph generative models (SGGMs) have proven effective in critical applications such as drug discovery and protein synthesis. However, their theoretical behavior, particularly regarding convergence, remains underexplored. Unlike…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Junwei Su , Chuan Wu

The generation of synthetic data is an essential tool to study complex systems, allowing for example to test models of these in precisely controlled settings, or to parametrize simulation models when data is missing. This paper focuses on…

Applications · Statistics 2019-11-25 Juste Raimbault

Machine learning, particularly deep learning, is transforming industrial quality inspection. Yet, training robust machine learning models typically requires large volumes of high-quality labeled data, which are expensive, time-consuming,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruo-Syuan Mei , Sixian Jia , Guangze Li , Soo Yeon Lee , Brian Musser , William Keller , Sreten Zakula , Jorge Arinez , Chenhui Shao

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

Automated systems built on artificial intelligence (AI) are increasingly deployed across high-stakes domains, raising critical concerns about fairness and the perpetuation of demographic disparities that exist in the world. In this context,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Drago Plecko

Training generative machine learning models to produce synthetic tabular data has become a popular approach for enhancing privacy in data sharing. As this typically involves processing sensitive personal information, releasing either the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

The growing reliance on data-driven applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and law enforcement underscores the need for secure, privacy-preserving, and scalable mechanisms for data generation and sharing. Synthetic data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Eduardo Brito , Mahmoud Shoush , Kristian Tamm , Paula Etti , Liina Kamm

High-quality labeled datasets are fundamental for training and evaluating machine learning models, yet domains such as healthcare and Requirements Engineering (RE) face persistent barriers due to data scarcity, privacy constraints, or…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Abdelkarim El-Hajjami , Camille Salinesi

Causal discovery aims to extract qualitative causal knowledge in the form of causal graphs from data. Because causal ground truth is rarely known in the real world, simulated data plays a vital role in evaluating the performance of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rebecca J. Herman , Jonas Wahl , Urmi Ninad , Jakob Runge