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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

Best Practices for Applying Synthetic Data

Synthetic data indeed has many advantages and has been successfully and extensively utilized recently in various domains and applications. However, many general issues limit the usability of synthetic data. In this chapter, you will learn about these issues that present a bottleneck for synthetic data. Then, we will delve into domain-related issues that make deploying synthetic data even more challenging. You will explore these issues in various fields, such as healthcare, finance, and self-driving cars. Following this, you will be introduced to an excellent set of good practices that improve the usability of synthetic data in practice.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Unveiling the challenges of generating and utilizing synthetic data
  • Domain-specific issues limiting the usability of synthetic data
  • Best practices for the effective utilization of synthetic data