In this paper, we propose a novel method for generating a synthetic dataset obeying Gaussian distribution. Compared to the commonly used benchmark datasets with unknown distribution, the synthetic dataset has an explicit distribution, i.e., Gaussian distribution. Meanwhile, it has the same characteristics as the benchm…
DIGEN benchmark provides synthetic datasets for ML algorithm evaluation.
problem Understanding and comparing machine learning algorithms' performance.
method Synthetic datasets generated using 40 mathematical functions to evaluate machine learning algorithms.
result DIGEN resource facilitates understanding why algorithms perform poorly and provides ideas for improvement.
TimeGraph creates synthetic datasets for robust time-series causal discovery.
problem Lack of reliable synthetic benchmark datasets for robust time-series causal discovery.
method Developed comprehensive synthetic datasets with temporal properties, including trends, seasonality, and noise.
result Demonstrated significant variations in algorithm performance under realistic temporal conditions.
SurvHTE-Bench benchmarks HTE estimation in survival analysis with diverse datasets.
problem Challenges in estimating HTEs from right-censored survival data.
method Modular synthetic datasets, semi-synthetic datasets, and real-world datasets.
result First rigorous comparison of survival HTE methods under diverse conditions.
XAI-Bench releases synthetic datasets for evaluating feature attribution methods.
problem Evaluating and comparing feature attribution methods is challenging.
method Released synthetic datasets and benchmarking library.
result Efficiently evaluates feature attribution methods across various metrics.
DSLOB creates synthetic LOB data for benchmarking forecasting algorithms under distributional shifts.
problem Challenges in dealing with out-of-distribution limit order book data.
method Multi-agent market simulator to create labeled synthetic LOB dataset with and without market stress.
result Demonstrates the need for robust forecasting algorithms to handle distributional shifts.
Method for creating synthetic multi-fidelity data sets.
problem Lack of representative synthetic datasets for multifidelity optimisation benchmarks.
method Systematic generation of synthetic fidelities from preexisting datasets.
result Allows systematic investigation of lower fidelity proxies' influence.
Paper benchmarks machine learning for detecting process curve drifts.
problem Detecting drifts in multivariate manufacturing process data.
method Synthetic data generation and evaluation score introduction.
result Existing algorithms often fail with complex drift scenarios.
MNIST-Nd offers synthetic datasets to benchmark clustering across dimensions.
problem Clustering performance degrades with high-dimensional data.
method Training mixture variational autoencoders on MNIST to create synthetic datasets with varying latent dimensions.
result Leiden clustering algorithm is most robust as dimensionality grows.
KT models improved slightly with synthetic student data.
problem Limited access to real student data and lack of diversity in public datasets.
method Simulated student data using three statistical strategies and tested on KT baselines.
result Synthetic data can lead to similar performance as real data.
New benchmarks improve model performance by accounting for isomorphism classes in multi-relational datasets.
problem Synthetic multi-relational datasets lack isomorphism class awareness, leading to overestimation of model performance.
method Proposed isomorphism-aware synthetic benchmarks and a prioritisation scheme to improve model performance and stability.
result Isomorphism classes can be utilised to improve model performance, stability during training, and reduce training time.
MixBoost generates synthetic instances to balance imbalanced datasets.
problem Training models on imbalanced datasets.
method Iterative data augmentation method that selects and combines instances from majority and minority classes.
result MixBoost outperforms existing approaches on 20 benchmark datasets.
Performing controlled experiments on noisy data is essential in understanding deep learning across noise levels. Due to the lack of suitable datasets, previous research has only examined deep learning on controlled synthetic label noise, and real-world label noise has never been studied in a controlled setting. This pa…
This paper tackles imbalanced classification with weakly supervised oversampling.
problem Imbalanced classification in high-dimensional datasets.
method Weakly supervised SMOTE, cost-sensitive NCA, bootstrap ensemble.
result Improved classification performance on synthetic and real-world datasets.
privGAN protects synthetic data from membership inference attacks.
problem Membership inference attacks on synthetic data generated by GANs.
method Developed a new GAN architecture (privGAN) that not only generates synthetic data but also defends against membership inference attacks.
result privGAN provides protection against membership inference attacks without significantly compromising downstream performance.
Graph learning is often unnecessary for common benchmarks, as node features can suffice.
problem The necessity of graph learning in common graph benchmarks is often assumed.
method We compared graph learning to feature-only models on seven datasets and found that graph structure often adds little to performance.
result Node features can often suffice for common graph benchmarks, challenging the orthodoxy.
Paper introduces TAP-Vid, a benchmark for tracking any point in videos.
problem Tackles the problem of tracking arbitrary physical points on surfaces over longer video clips.
method Formalizes the problem as TAP, introduces TAP-Vid benchmark, uses crowdsourced pipeline with optical flow estimates, proposes TAP-Net model.
result TAP-Net outperforms all prior methods on TAP-Vid benchmark when trained on synthetic data.
Study real-world noisy labels from human annotations for better understanding.
problem Understanding and modeling real-world label noise in machine learning.
method Developed two new benchmark datasets (CIFAR-10N, CIFAR-100N) with human-annotated real-world noisy labels.
result Real-world noisy labels exhibit instance-dependent patterns, not class-dependent as previously assumed.
We report a series of robust empirical observations, demonstrating that deep Neural Networks learn the examples in both the training and test sets in a similar order. This phenomenon is observed in all the commonly used benchmarks we evaluated, including many image classification benchmarks, and one text classification…
Scoping review and benchmarking of synthetic EHR data generation methods.
problem Creating realistic synthetic electronic health records for research and training.
method Conducted a scoping review and benchmarked seven methods on open-source EHR datasets.
result GAN-based methods excel in fidelity and utility, while rule-based methods excel in privacy protection.
Gradient matching method improves domain generalization across various datasets.
problem Machine learning's inability to generalize to unseen domains.
method Inter-domain gradient matching objective and first-order algorithm Fish.
result Fish method produces competitive results and surpasses baselines on 4 datasets.
Natural experiment dataset reveals inconsistent treatment effect estimators.
problem Inconsistent results from over 20 estimators on a new dataset.
method Created a benchmark to evaluate estimator accuracy, derived variance formula, introduced new estimator.
result Doubly robust estimators outperform others by orders of magnitude.
Python package for estimating intrinsic dimensionality of datasets.
problem Estimating intrinsic dimensionality for machine learning applications.
method Implementation of various intrinsic dimension estimators in Python.
result Benchmarking of ID estimation methods on real and synthetic data.
Paper proposes a new dataset for group anomaly detection in physics.
problem Group anomaly detection in physics.
method Development of a synthetic benchmark dataset and comparison of anomaly detection techniques.
result Demonstrated performance of anomaly detection techniques on the new dataset.
New algorithms for clustering and synthetic data generation of heterogeneous tabular datasets.
problem Clustering and generating synthetic data from heterogeneous tabular datasets with hidden cluster structure.
method Developed MMM and MMMsynth algorithms for clustering and synthetic data generation.
result MMMsynth algorithm outperforms other literature tabular-data generators and approaches real data performance.
Online data augmentation improves forecasting performance in deep learning.
problem Insufficient training data for forecasting tasks.
method An online data augmentation framework that generates synthetic samples during training.
result Online data augmentation leads to better forecasting performance.
Foundation models leak sensitive data in synthetic tabular data generation, especially LLaMA 3.3 70B.
problem Privacy leakage in synthetic tabular data generation using foundation models.
method Benchmarked three foundation models (GPT-4o-mini, LLaMA 3.3 70B, TabPFN v2) against four baselines on 35 real-world tables.
result Foundation models, especially LLaMA 3.3 70B, have the highest privacy risk in synthetic tabular data generation.
Improved tabular models learn better from real-world data.
problem Tabular models perform poorly on real-world datasets when trained only on synthetic data.
method Continued pre-training on a curated set of real-world datasets.
result Real-TabPFN achieves superior predictive accuracy on 29 datasets.
CausalTime generates realistic time-series for TSCD evaluation.
problem Lack of realistic synthetic datasets for TSCD performance evaluation.
method Harnessing deep neural networks and normalizing flow for dynamics, extracting causal graphs, and deriving ground truth causal graphs.
result Generated datasets accurately reflect real data and ground truth causal graphs.
Paper generates synthetic financial transactions for AML model testing.
problem Insufficient real data for AML model training.
method Agent-based generator calibrated to real transactions.
result Synthetic datasets improve model comparison by providing complete ground truth.
Generates synthetic data for benchmarking unsupervised outlier detection.
problem Difficulty in benchmarking unsupervised outlier detection due to rare and varied outliers in real data.
method Proposes a generic process to generate synthetic data with insightful characteristics.
result Demonstrates practicality of the generic process through a benchmark with state-of-the-art detection methods.
CTBench benchmarks cryptocurrency time series generation for trading applications.
problem Lack of comprehensive benchmarks for cryptocurrency time series generation.
method Developed a comprehensive benchmark extsf{CTBench} with 13 metrics across 5 dimensions.
result Uncovered trade-offs between statistical fidelity and real-world profitability.
WRENCH benchmarks weak supervision datasets for machine learning.
problem Lack of standardized evaluation for weak supervision datasets.
method Developed a comprehensive benchmark platform WRENCH.
result Demonstrated the efficacy of WRENCH as a benchmark platform.
We study the role of latent space dimensionality in Wasserstein auto-encoders (WAEs). Through experimentation on synthetic and real datasets, we argue that random encoders should be preferred over deterministic encoders. We highlight the potential of WAEs for representation learning with promising results on a benchmar…
This paper uses deep generative models to create synthetic financial data for portfolio and risk modeling.
problem Challenges in empirical research due to privacy, accessibility, and reproducibility issues in financial data.
method Investigates the use of Time-series Generative Adversarial Networks (TimeGAN) and Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) to generate synthetic financial return series.
result Synthetic data from TimeGAN closely mimics real financial data in distributional shapes, volatility, and autocorrelation.
Benchmark for math reasoning models from human proofs.
problem Measuring and accelerating machine learning models in high-level mathematical reasoning.
method Built a non-synthetic dataset from theorem prover proofs, defined a task for model to fill in missing propositions, used hierarchical transformer to improve performance.
result Neural models can capture non-trivial mathematical reasoning, hierarchical transformer outperforms baseline.
Private training and synthetic data generation using DP clustering.
problem Protecting sensitive data in deep neural networks training.
method Approximate input dataset with privately generated synthetic dataset using DP clustering.
result Simple two-layer neural network achieves SOTA classification accuracy on standard benchmark datasets.
DPDMs use DP-SGD to generate private synthetic data.
problem Generating private synthetic data from sensitive datasets.
method Introduced DP-SGD for DMs, investigated DM parameterization and sampling, proposed noise multiplicity.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in image generation benchmarks.
Proposes K-Fold Causal BART for improved CATE estimation.
problem Improving estimation of Conditional Average Treatment Effects (CATE).
method K-Fold Causal Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (K-Fold Causal BART).
result K-Fold Causal BART is not state-of-the-art for ATE and CATE estimation in the IHDP dataset, but provides insights into model robustness and evaluation methods.
Mobility datasets are fundamental for evaluating algorithms pertaining to geographic information systems and facilitating experimental reproducibility. But privacy implications restrict sharing such datasets, as even aggregated location-data is vulnerable to membership inference attacks. Current synthetic mobility data…
SpaCE tackles spatial confounding in scientific studies.
problem Spatial confounding influences treatment and outcome, leading to spurious associations.
method Introduces SpaCE toolkit for benchmark datasets and tools to evaluate causal inference methods.
result Facilitates automated evaluation of machine learning and causal inference models.
Frugal Flows learn complex data and infer marginal causal effects.
problem Challenges in estimating marginal causal effects from complex data.
method Frugal Flows use normalizing flows to flexibly learn data and infer causal quantities.
result Frugal Flows can generate synthetic data that closely matches real-world data and exactly parameterize causal quantities.
Study benchmarks label noise detection methods, identifying best practices.
problem Label noise in real-world datasets affects model performance and evaluation reliability.
method Decomposed detection methods into label agreement, aggregation, and information gathering components; introduced a unified benchmark task and novel metric.
result In-sample probability aggregation with logit margin label agreement function achieves best results across scenarios.
We study the effect of structural variation in graph data on the predictive performance of graph kernels. To this end, we introduce a novel, noise-robust adaptation of the GraphHopper kernel and validate it on benchmark data, obtaining modestly improved predictive performance on a range of datasets. Next, we investigat…
Researchers compute Bayes error for classification models using normalizing flows.
problem Evaluating the inherent difficulty of classification problems.
method Invertible transformations and Gaussian base distributions to compute Bayes error.
result State-of-the-art models can achieve near-optimal accuracy but not always.
New benchmark for causal reasoning from human video descriptions.
problem Lack of diversity in event types and natural language descriptions, and differences from human judgments.
method Iterative event cloze task and data augmentation techniques.
result Improved data collection efficiency and diverse causal judgments.
TabPFN doesn't outperform GLM and XGBoost for motor insurance pricing.
problem Improving insurance pricing models using Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs).
method Pre-training on synthetic datasets and in-context learning for inference.
result TabPFN does not consistently outperform established baselines, has longer inference times, and is sensitive to training set size.
A Python tool generates synthetic data for cluster analysis from high-level descriptions.
problem Creating synthetic data for cluster analysis is laborious and requires detailed geometric parameters.
method Proposes natural language-based synthetic data generation and implements it in a Python package.
result Makes it easy to set up interpretable and reproducible benchmarks for cluster analysis.