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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

Approaches for synthetic-to-real domain adaptation

In this section, you will learn the key approaches for synthetic-to-real domain adaptation. We will discuss the following methods:

  • Domain randomization
  • Adversarial domain adaptation
  • Feature-based domain adaptation

Let’s start with one of the most commonly used approaches for domain adaptation.

Domain randomization

Domain randomization is a mechanism or procedure usually used to mitigate the domain gap problem and improve the performance of ML models on the target domain. This approach aims at randomizing the main properties and attributes of the training data or environment, such as simulators to increase the diversity of the scenarios the ML model is exposed to in the training stage. Thus, we can increase the robustness of the ML model for scenarios that it may encounter in the future. For more information, please refer to Domain Randomization for Transferring Deep Neural Networks from Simulation...