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Synthetic Data for Machine Learning

By : Abdulrahman Kerim
Book Image

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

A brief introduction to NLP

NLP is an interdisciplinary field that combines computer science, ML, and linguistics. It gives computers the ability to understand, analyze, and respond to natural language texts, written or spoken. The field of NLP is evolving for many reasons, including the availability of big data and powerful computational resources such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). Examples of state-of-the-art NLP models include BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding (https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805), ChatGPT (https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt), and Google Bard (https://bard.google.com). Next, let’s explore some of the key applications of NLP models in practice.

Applications of NLP in practice

Some common applications of NLP models are shown in Figure 11.1.

Figure 11.1 – Samples of key applications of NLP models in practice

Figure 11.1 – Samples of key applications of NLP models in practice

Let’s now discuss some...