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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

Challenges and limitations

To ensure that you are aware of common issues that usually hinder the effective utilization of synthetic data, we comprehensively explored synthetic-to-real domain adaptation approaches. We thoroughly studied the domain gap problem in ML and learned about the main approaches for synthetic-to-real domain adaptation (Chapter 14). Then, we learned why diverse data is essential in ML and discovered the main strategies to generate diverse synthetic datasets. Following this, we highlighted the main issues and challenges of generating diverse synthetic data (Chapter 15). After that, we learned why generating photorealistic data is pivotal in computer vision. We also learned about the main approaches to enhancing photorealism and discussed the essential photorealism evaluation metrics. Then, we covered the challenges and limitations of generating photorealistic synthetic data in practice (Chapter 16).