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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

What happens when generative machine learning models are pretrained on web-scale datasets containing data generated by earlier models? Some prior work warns of "model collapse" as the web is overwhelmed by synthetic data; other work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Joshua Kazdan , Rylan Schaeffer , Apratim Dey , Matthias Gerstgrasser , Rafael Rafailov , David L. Donoho , Sanmi Koyejo

The proliferation of generative models, combined with pretraining on web-scale data, raises a timely question: what happens when these models are trained on their own generated outputs? Recent investigations into model-data feedback loops…

The problem of model collapse has presented new challenges in iterative training of generative models, where such training with synthetic data leads to an overall degradation of performance. This paper looks at the problem from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-19 Soham Bakshi , Sunrit Chakraborty

The increasing prevalence of synthetic data in training loops has raised concerns about model collapse, where generative models degrade when trained on their own outputs. While prior work focuses on this self-consuming process, we study an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Weiguo Gao , Ming Li

The phenomenon of model collapse, introduced in (Shumailov et al., 2023), refers to the deterioration in performance that occurs when new models are trained on synthetic data generated from previously trained models. This recursive training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Mohamed El Amine Seddik , Suei-Wen Chen , Soufiane Hayou , Pierre Youssef , Merouane Debbah

As synthetic content increasingly infiltrates the web, generative AI models may be retrained on their own outputs: a process termed "autophagy". This leads to model collapse: a progressive loss of performance and diversity across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Daniele Gambetta , Gizem Gezici , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi , Alistair Knott , Luca Pappalardo

The internet serves as a common source of training data for generative AI (genAI) models but is increasingly populated with AI-generated content. This duality raises the possibility that future genAI models may be trained on other models'…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hung Anh Vu , Galen Reeves , Emily Wenger

The use of synthetically generated data for training models is becoming a common practice. While generated data can augment the training data, repeated training on synthetic data raises concerns about distribution drift and degradation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Daniil Zverev , A. Sophia Koepke , Joao F. Henriques

Improvement and adoption of generative machine learning models is rapidly accelerating, as exemplified by the popularity of LLMs (Large Language Models) for text, and diffusion models for image generation. As generative models become…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Matteo Marchi , Stefano Soatto , Pratik Chaudhari , Paulo Tabuada

The proliferation of AI-generated content online has fueled concerns over \emph{model collapse}, a degradation in future generative models' performance when trained on synthetic data generated by earlier models. Industry leaders, premier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Rylan Schaeffer , Joshua Kazdan , Alvan Caleb Arulandu , Sanmi Koyejo

Model collapse, the degradation in performance that arises when generative models are trained on the outputs of prior models, is an increasing concern as artificially generated content proliferates. Related critiques of large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Devon Jarvis , Richard Klein , Benjamin Rosman , Steven James , Stefano Sarao Mannelli

High-quality data is essential for training large generative models, yet the vast reservoir of real data available online has become nearly depleted. Consequently, models increasingly generate their own data for further training, forming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Shi Fu , Yingjie Wang , Yuzhu Chen , Xinmei Tian , Dacheng Tao

In the era of proliferation of large language and image generation models, the phenomenon of "model collapse" refers to the situation whereby as a model is trained recursively on data generated from previous generations of itself over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Elvis Dohmatob , Yunzhen Feng , Julia Kempe

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), such as large language models (LLMs), has become a transformative force across science, industry, and society. As these systems grow in popularity, web data becomes increasingly interwoven with this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Kevin Wang , Hongqian Niu , Didong Li

The study conducted by Shumailov et al. (2024) demonstrates that repeatedly training a generative model on synthetic data leads to model collapse. This finding has generated considerable interest and debate, particularly given that current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ali Borji

Autonomous Vehicle decisions rely on multimodal prediction models that account for multiple route options and the inherent uncertainty in human behavior. However, models can suffer from mode collapse, where only the most likely mode is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Maarten Hugenholtz , Anna Meszaros , Jens Kober , Zlatan Ajanovic

In this manuscript, we consider the problem of learning a flow or diffusion-based generative model parametrized by a two-layer auto-encoder, trained with online stochastic gradient descent, on a high-dimensional target density with an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Hugo Cui , Cengiz Pehlevan , Yue M. Lu

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

Large language models increasingly rely on synthetic data due to human-written content scarcity, yet recursive training on model-generated outputs leads to model collapse, a degenerative process threatening factual reliability. We define…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Figarri Keisha , Zekun Wu , Ze Wang , Adriano Koshiyama , Philip Treleaven
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