Synthetic Data Generation

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Seonglae ChoSeonglae Cho
Created
Created
2025 Feb 21 21:0
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2025 Dec 29 16:32
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Synthetic Data Generation Methods
 
 
 
 
Dreams are not meaningless byproducts, but rather evolved to prevent
Overfitting
in the brain and aid generalization. Just as deep learning uses noise injection and
Dropout
to prevent overfitting, dreams provide the brain with distorted, sparse, and hallucinatory inputs: the sparsity, hallucination, and narrative that differ from reality are precisely the "intentional corruption" that favors generalization.
In other words, dreams expose the brain to high-entropy data that differs from existing data, preventing overfitting
Model Collapse
. This means the brain continuously generates its own
Synthetic Dataset
for self-training, thereby generalizing its performance
This explains the phenomenology of dreams (their strangeness) better than
Memory Consolidation
or emotional regulation theories.
Sleep
(especially dream) deprivation → memorization remains intact but ability to respond to new situations declines. Dreams contribute to performance recovery after repeated overtraining. Fiction like novels and films can also help generalization like "artificial dreams"
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