The paper introduces the Real‑Calibrated Synthetic‑First Data Engine, a modular pipeline that integrates controllable diffusion‑based synthetic image generation with multi‑stage curation, filtering, and optional uncertainty‑driven selection and human verification. Designed as a CLI‑based framework, it allows independent configuration of generation, filtering, selection, and validation modules to enhance reproducibility and flexibility in real‑world data workflows. Empirical tests on human pose estimation demonstrate that synthetic data can boost a real‑data baseline when used as low‑cost augmentation, though synthetic‑only training still lags behind real‑only performance, underscoring the importance of data‑centric orchestration in low‑data regimes.
By Yukang Shen, Zhiguo Liu, Yingshu Li, Yan Huang
arXiv:2607. 02637v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent generative models can produce high-quality synthetic images, offering scalable training training data for data-hungry models.
By Disheng Liu, Tuo Liang, Chaoda Song, Yu Yin
arXiv:2510. 06596v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The performance of machine learning models depends heavily on training data.
By Ayush Zenith, Arnold Zumbrun, Neel Raut, Jing Lin
JEPAMatch introduces a new semi‑supervised learning framework that replaces traditional output‑thresholding with explicit geometric shaping of latent representations. By combining the FlexMatch loss with a latent‑space regularization inspired by LeJEPA, the method encourages isotropic Gaussian structure in the embedding space, mitigating class imbalance and noisy pseudo‑labels. Experiments on CIFAR‑100, STL‑10, and Tiny‑ImageNet show consistent performance gains and faster convergence compared to existing FixMatch‑based baselines.
By Ali Aghababaei-Harandi, Aude Sportisse, Massih-Reza Amini
Volume and quality of datasets are crucial for deep learning model training, yet they are often constrained by availability and data acquisition costs. Synthetic data augmentation can extend existing datasets with realistic images, and the quality of these images is generally assessed through fidelity metrics such as FID, KID, IS, LPIPS and SSIM that measure structural or distributional similarity.
arXiv:2606. 25128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Volume and quality of datasets are crucial for deep learning model training, yet they are often constrained by availability and data acquisition costs.
By \"Umit Mert \c{C}a\u{g}lar, Alptekin Temizel
arXiv:2602. 19946v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models produce visually stunning images and demonstrate excellent prompt following.
By Krzysztof Adamkiewicz, Brian Bernhard Moser, Stanislav Frolov, Tobias Christian Nauen, Federico Raue, Andreas Dengel
ScoreMix is a self‑contained synthetic data generation method that improves recognition tasks by mixing class‑conditioned scores along reverse diffusion trajectories, thereby creating hard synthetic samples without external resources. The approach shows that selecting classes far apart in the discriminator’s embedding space yields larger performance gains, up to 3% more improvement than proximity‑based selection. Across eight public face recognition benchmarks, ScoreMix boosts accuracy by up to 7 percentage points, demonstrating robustness and practicality without hyperparameter tuning.
By Parsa Rahimi, Sebastien Marcel
arXiv:2609.14316v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Advances in image generation have made synthetic images increasingly difficult to distinguish from real photographs, raising concerns about the trustwo...
By Manni Cui, Ruiqi Liu, Zijian Yu, Hao Tan, Zibo Wei, Zian Wang, Ziheng Qin, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Jun Lan, Shu Wu
arXiv:2608. 00716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robust detection of generated images is critical to counter the misuse of generative models.
By Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Tongliang Liu, Yiu-ming Cheung, Bo Han, Xinmei Tian
arXiv:2610.00814v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Synthetic data are increasingly used to scale LLM training, yet more synthetic data do not necessarily produce better models. Useful synthetic data m...
By Yang Ba, Michelle V. Mancenido, Rong Pan
arXiv:2308. 04553v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual recognition models are prone to learning spurious correlations induced by a biased training set where certain conditions $B$ (\eg, Indoors) are over-represented in certain classes $Y$ (\eg, Big Dogs).
By Maan Qraitem, Kate Saenko, Bryan A. Plummer