arXiv AI

When Sample Selection Bias Precipitates Model Collapse

arXiv:2606. 13732v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The proliferation of recursive training on synthetic data can alleviate data scarcity but risks model collapse, where repeated training erodes distributional tails and homogenizes outputs.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 14

SynthSentry: Detecting Synthetic Data Contamination in Language Model Training Data

The paper introduces SynthSentry, a model‑agnostic method for detecting synthetic data contamination in language‑model training corpora. It computes a distributional divergence score based on lexical diversity collapse, n‑gram tail truncation, and perplexity variance across reference models, requiring no access to the generating model or synthetic labels. Experiments on English corpora contaminated by small open‑weight generators and an instruction‑tuned model show that SynthSentry ranks contamination severity accurately, maintains low false‑positive rates after calibration, and does not degrade downstream fine‑tuning performance at the tested scale.

By Praveen Kumar Myakala, Ravichandra Namburi, Sowmya Keragodu Jayaramu, Sooraj George Thomas
arXiv AI
Jul 24

Synthetic minority data is redundant or invalid: a data-dependent validity theory and a de-biased test

arXiv:2607. 20787v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For two decades, the standard remedy for class-imbalanced learning has been to fabricate synthetic minority examples, and the standard evidence of their validity has been a check that cannot fail: synthetic points are scored against the very data that generated them.

By Ahmad B. Hassanat, Ahmad S. Tarawneh, Ghada A. Altarawneh