README.md

awesome-synthetic-data

A curated list of resources dedicated to Synthetic Data

If you want to contribute to this list (please do), send me a pull request or contact me @AlexWatson405. Also, a listed repository should be deprecated if:

• Repository's owner explicitly says that "this library is not maintained".
• Not committed for a long time (2~3 years).

Contents

• Research Summaries and Trends
• Tutorials
  • Reading Content
  • Videos and Online Courses
• Libraries
  • Text
  • Tabular
  • Time Series
  • Image
  • Audio
  • Simulation
• Academic Papers
  • Language Models
  • Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
  • Diffusion Models
  • Fair AI
• Services
• Prominent Synthetic Data Research Labs
• Datasets

Research Summaries and Trends

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Tutorials

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Reading Content

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Introductions and Guides to Synthetic Data

Blogs and Newsletters

Videos and Online Courses

Videos and Online Courses

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Libraries

Open Source Generative Synthetic Data Models, Libraries and Frameworks | Back to Top

Text, Tabular and Time-Series

• gretel-synthetics - Generative models for structured and unstructured text, tabular, and multi-variate time-series data featuring differentially private learning.
• SDV - Synthetic Data Generator for tabular, relational, and time series data.
• Synthea - Synthetic Patient Population Simulator.
• ydata-synthetic - Synthetic structured data generators.

Images

• Contrastive Unpaired Translation - Contrastive unpaired image-to-image translation, faster and lighter training than cyclegan.
• StyleGAN 3 - Official PyTorch implementation of StyleGAN3 from NeurIPS 2021.

Audio

• Jukebox - OpenAI's Jukebox- A Generative Model for Music.

Simulation

• AirSim - AirSim is a simulator for drones, cars and more, built on Unreal and Unity engines.
• Nvidia Dataset Synthesizer - NDDS is a UE4 plugin from NVIDIA to empower computer vision researchers to export high-quality synthetic images with metadata.
• OpenAI Gym - A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
• Unity Perception Perception toolkit for sim2real training and validation in Unity.

Academic Papers

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Language Models

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Diffusion Models

• Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution (2021) Yang Song [pdf]
• Diffusion Models are Autoencoders S. Dielman (2021) [pdf]
• Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics (2015) J Sohl-Dickstein et al. [pdf]

Fair AI

Services

Synthetic Data as API with higher level functionality such model training, fine-tuning, and generation | Back to Top

Prominent Synthetic Data Research Labs

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Datasets

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• HuggingFace Datasets - Library for easily accessing and sharing datasets, and evaluation metrics for Natural Language Processing (NLP), computer vision, and audio tasks.
• Google Cloud Public Datasets - Publicly available and free machine learning and analytics datasets.
• Kaggle Datasets - Data science and machine learning datasets.
• /r/datasets - A place to share, find, and discuss Datasets.

License

License - CC0