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Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

By : Abdulrahman Kerim
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Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

By: Abdulrahman Kerim

Overview of this book

The machine learning (ML) revolution has made our world unimaginable without its products and services. However, training ML models requires vast datasets, which entails a process plagued by high costs, errors, and privacy concerns associated with collecting and annotating real data. Synthetic data emerges as a promising solution to all these challenges. This book is designed to bridge theory and practice of using synthetic data, offering invaluable support for your ML journey. Synthetic Data for Machine Learning empowers you to tackle real data issues, enhance your ML models' performance, and gain a deep understanding of synthetic data generation. You’ll explore the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches, gaining practical knowledge with hands-on examples of modern methods, including Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and diffusion models. Additionally, you’ll uncover the secrets and best practices to harness the full potential of synthetic data. By the end of this book, you’ll have mastered synthetic data and positioned yourself as a market leader, ready for more advanced, cost-effective, and higher-quality data sources, setting you ahead of your peers in the next generation of ML.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1:Real Data Issues, Limitations, and Challenges
5
Part 2:An Overview of Synthetic Data for Machine Learning
8
Part 3:Synthetic Data Generation Approaches
13
Part 4:Case Studies and Best Practices
18
Part 5:Current Challenges and Future Perspectives

Exploring Diffusion Models for Synthetic Data

This chapter introduces you to diffusion models, which are cutting-edge approaches to synthetic data generation. We will highlight the pros and cons of this novel synthetic data generation approach. This will help you to make informed decisions about the best methods to utilize for your own problems. We will highlight the opportunities and challenges of diffusion models. Moreover, this chapter is enriched with a comprehensive practical example, providing hands-on experience in both generating and effectively employing synthetic data for a real-world ML application. As you go through diffusion models, you will learn about the main ethical issues and concerns around utilizing this synthetic data approach in practice. In addition to that, we will review some state-of-the-art research on this topic. Thus, this chapter will equip you with the necessary knowledge to thoroughly understand this novel synthetic data generation approach.

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