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Main Authors: Jia, Xuemei, Du, Jiawei, Wei, Hui, Chen, Jun, Zhou, Joey Tianyi, Wang, Zheng
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07884
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author Jia, Xuemei
Du, Jiawei
Wei, Hui
Chen, Jun
Zhou, Joey Tianyi
Wang, Zheng
author_facet Jia, Xuemei
Du, Jiawei
Wei, Hui
Chen, Jun
Zhou, Joey Tianyi
Wang, Zheng
contents High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in settings where generative models are most needed to compensate for the lack of data. This creates a self-reinforcing challenge: limited data leads to poor generative models, which in turn fail to mitigate data scarcity. To break this cycle, we propose a reinforcement-guided synthetic data generation framework that adapts general-domain generative priors to privacy-sensitive identity recognition tasks. We first perform a cold-start adaptation to align a pretrained generator with the target domain, establishing semantic relevance and initial fidelity. Building on this foundation, we introduce a multi-objective reward that jointly optimizes semantic consistency, coverage diversity, and expression richness, guiding the generator to produce both realistic and task-effective samples. During downstream training, a dynamic sample selection mechanism further prioritizes high-utility synthetic samples, enabling adaptive data scaling and improved domain alignment. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our framework significantly improves both generation fidelity and classification accuracy, while also exhibiting strong generalization to novel categories in small-data regimes.
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spellingShingle Reinforcement-Guided Synthetic Data Generation for Privacy-Sensitive Identity Recognition
Jia, Xuemei
Du, Jiawei
Wei, Hui
Chen, Jun
Zhou, Joey Tianyi
Wang, Zheng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in settings where generative models are most needed to compensate for the lack of data. This creates a self-reinforcing challenge: limited data leads to poor generative models, which in turn fail to mitigate data scarcity. To break this cycle, we propose a reinforcement-guided synthetic data generation framework that adapts general-domain generative priors to privacy-sensitive identity recognition tasks. We first perform a cold-start adaptation to align a pretrained generator with the target domain, establishing semantic relevance and initial fidelity. Building on this foundation, we introduce a multi-objective reward that jointly optimizes semantic consistency, coverage diversity, and expression richness, guiding the generator to produce both realistic and task-effective samples. During downstream training, a dynamic sample selection mechanism further prioritizes high-utility synthetic samples, enabling adaptive data scaling and improved domain alignment. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our framework significantly improves both generation fidelity and classification accuracy, while also exhibiting strong generalization to novel categories in small-data regimes.
title Reinforcement-Guided Synthetic Data Generation for Privacy-Sensitive Identity Recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.07884