Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching

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Main Authors: Yuan, Jianhao, Zhang, Jie, Sun, Shuyang, Torr, Philip, Zhao, Bo
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Published: 2023
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author Yuan, Jianhao
Zhang, Jie
Sun, Shuyang
Torr, Philip
Zhao, Bo
author_facet Yuan, Jianhao
Zhang, Jie
Sun, Shuyang
Torr, Philip
Zhao, Bo
contents Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite these benefits, the efficiency of synthetic data generated by current methodologies remains inferior when training advanced deep models exclusively, limiting its practical utility. To address this challenge, we analyze the principles underlying training data synthesis for supervised learning and elucidate a principled theoretical framework from the distribution-matching perspective that explicates the mechanisms governing synthesis efficacy. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our synthetic data across diverse image classification tasks, both as a replacement for and augmentation to real datasets, while also benefits such as out-of-distribution generalization, privacy preservation, and scalability. Specifically, we achieve 70.9% top1 classification accuracy on ImageNet1K when training solely with synthetic data equivalent to 1 X the original real data size, which increases to 76.0% when scaling up to 10 X synthetic data.
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spellingShingle Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
Yuan, Jianhao
Zhang, Jie
Sun, Shuyang
Torr, Philip
Zhao, Bo
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Synthetic training data has gained prominence in numerous learning tasks and scenarios, offering advantages such as dataset augmentation, generalization evaluation, and privacy preservation. Despite these benefits, the efficiency of synthetic data generated by current methodologies remains inferior when training advanced deep models exclusively, limiting its practical utility. To address this challenge, we analyze the principles underlying training data synthesis for supervised learning and elucidate a principled theoretical framework from the distribution-matching perspective that explicates the mechanisms governing synthesis efficacy. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our synthetic data across diverse image classification tasks, both as a replacement for and augmentation to real datasets, while also benefits such as out-of-distribution generalization, privacy preservation, and scalability. Specifically, we achieve 70.9% top1 classification accuracy on ImageNet1K when training solely with synthetic data equivalent to 1 X the original real data size, which increases to 76.0% when scaling up to 10 X synthetic data.
title Real-Fake: Effective Training Data Synthesis Through Distribution Matching
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10402