Privacy Amplification Persists under Unlimited Synthetic Data Release
Abstract
We study privacy amplification by synthetic data release, a phenomenon in which differential privacy guarantees are improved by releasing only synthetic data rather than the private generative model itself. Recent work by Pierquin et al. (2025) established the first formal amplification guarantees for a linear generator, but they apply only in asymptotic regimes where the model dimension far exceeds the number of released synthetic records, limiting their practical relevance. In this work, we show a surprising result: under a bounded-parameter assumption, privacy amplification persists even when releasing an unbounded number of synthetic records, thereby improving upon the bounds of Pierquin et al. (2025). Our analysis provides structural insights that may guide the development of tighter privacy guarantees for more complex release mechanisms.
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@article{arxiv.2602.04895,
title = {Privacy Amplification Persists under Unlimited Synthetic Data Release},
author = {Clément Pierquin and Aurélien Bellet and Marc Tommasi and Matthieu Boussard},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.04895},
year = {2026}
}