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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

The need for large-scale training datasets in NLP

NLP models require large-scale training datasets to perform well in practice. In this section, you will understand why NLP models need a substantial amount of training data to converge.

ML models in general required a huge number of training samples to cover in practice. NLP models require even more training data compared to other ML fields. There are many reasons for that. Next, let’s discuss the main ones, which are as follows:

  • Human language complexity
  • Contextual dependence
  • Generalization

Human language complexity

Recent research shows that a huge proportion of our brains is used for language understanding. At the same time, it is still a research problem to understand how different brain regions communicate with each other while reading, writing, or carrying out other language-related activities. For more information, please refer to A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI...