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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

Synthetic data types

There are various synthetic data types, such as textual, imagery, point cloud, and tabular. Based on the ML problem and task, different types of data are required. In this section, we will discuss the main types of synthetic data in more detail.

Figure 4.5 – A sample of synthetic data types

Figure 4.5 – A sample of synthetic data types

  • Text: Wikipedia, digital books, lexicons, and text corpora are examples of textual data. ML models can be trained on large-scale textual datasets to learn the structure of the text that we generate or write as humans. Then, these models can be leveraged to answer questions, summarize texts, or translate from one language to another. These models, such as ChatGPT, ChatSonic (https://writesonic.com), and Jasper Chat (https://www.jasper.ai), work by generating synthetic texts based on making predictions on what word should come next.
  • Video, image, and audio: ML models can learn the patterns in a video, image, or audio, and then they...