Core Concepts
Generative AI and Large Language Models are revolutionizing synthetic data generation, addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns while pushing the boundaries of AI development.
Abstract
Introduction to the recent surge in research on synthetic data generation using Large Language Models (LLMs).
Evolution from Generative Adversarial Networks to LLMs like GPT-3 and ChatGPT.
Importance of synthetic data in specialized domains with limited data availability.
Synergy between LLMs and synthetic data generation for diverse datasets.
Overview of related survey papers and the focus of the current paper on recent technologies.
Detailed outline of the paper's structure and key sections.
Methods for generating synthetic training data from LLMs, including prompt engineering and parameter-efficient task adaptation.
Importance of measuring data quality and training with synthetic data.
Applications of synthetic data in low-resource tasks, fast inference, and medical scenarios.
Challenges with synthetic data and future research directions.
Stats
"ZeroGen: Efficient zero-shot learning via dataset generation," in Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
"ProGen: Progressive zero-shot dataset generation via in-context feedback," in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022.
"ReGen: Zero-shot text classification via training data generation with progressive dense retrieval," in Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023.
Quotes
"Large Language Models (LLMs) for synthetic data generation marks a significant frontier in the field of AI."
"Synthetic data generation requires LLMs to generate text data based on label-conditional prompts."
"Synthetic data surpasses real data in performance across various biomedical tasks, showcasing the potential of synthetic data in transforming medical AI applications."