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Differentially private (DP) synthetic data is a promising approach to maximizing the utility of data containing sensitive information. Due to the suppression of underrepresented classes that is often required to achieve privacy, however, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Blake Bullwinkel , Kristen Grabarz , Lily Ke , Scarlett Gong , Chris Tanner , Joshua Allen

Differentially private synthetic data generation offers a recent solution to release analytically useful data while preserving the privacy of individuals in the data. In order to utilize these algorithms for public policy decisions,…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-13 Claire McKay Bowen , Joshua Snoke

Synthetic data has been advertised as a silver-bullet solution to privacy-preserving data publishing that addresses the shortcomings of traditional anonymisation techniques. The promise is that synthetic data drawn from generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Theresa Stadler , Bristena Oprisanu , Carmela Troncoso

Background: Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution for sharing anonymized versions of sensitive biomedical datasets. Ideally, synthetic data should preserve the structure and statistical properties of the original data, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ileana Montoya Perez , Parisa Movahedi , Valtteri Nieminen , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala

Synthetic data is seen as the most promising solution to share individual-level data while preserving privacy. Shadow modeling-based Membership Inference Attacks (MIAs) have become the standard approach to evaluate the privacy risk of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Matthieu Meeus , Florent Guépin , Ana-Maria Cretu , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

The success of AI models relies on the availability of large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which can be challenging to obtain due to data scarcity, privacy concerns, and high costs. Synthetic data has emerged as a promising solution…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ruibo Liu , Jerry Wei , Fangyu Liu , Chenglei Si , Yanzhe Zhang , Jinmeng Rao , Steven Zheng , Daiyi Peng , Diyi Yang , Denny Zhou , Andrew M. Dai

Machine learning systems require representations of the real world for training and testing - they require data, and lots of it. Collecting data at scale has logistical and ethical challenges, and synthetic data promises a solution to these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Cedric Deslandes Whitney , Justin Norman

Data privacy is a core tenet of responsible computing, and in the United States, differential privacy (DP) is the dominant technical operationalization of privacy-preserving data analysis. With this study, we qualitatively examine one class…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lucas Rosenblatt , Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich

Deep neural networks have become prevalent in human analysis, boosting the performance of applications, such as biometric recognition, action recognition, as well as person re-identification. However, the performance of such networks scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Indu Joshi , Marcel Grimmer , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch , Francois Bremond , Antitza Dantcheva

Synthetic data generation, a cornerstone of Generative Artificial Intelligence, promotes a paradigm shift in data science by addressing data scarcity and privacy while enabling unprecedented performance. As synthetic data becomes more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Xiaotong Shen , Yifei Liu , Rex Shen

With the growing demand for synthetic data to address contemporary issues in machine learning, such as data scarcity, data fairness, and data privacy, having robust tools for assessing the utility and potential privacy risks of such data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Anton Danholt Lautrup , Tobias Hyrup , Arthur Zimek , Peter Schneider-Kamp

The use of synthetic data in health applications raises privacy concerns, yet the lack of open frameworks for privacy evaluations has slowed its adoption. A major challenge is the absence of accessible benchmark datasets for evaluating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Bing Hu , Yixin Li , Asma Bahamyirou , Helen Chen

Data synthesis is a privacy enhancing technology aiming to produce realistic and timely data when real data is hard to obtain. Utility of synthetic data generators (SDGs) has been investigated through different utility metrics. These…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-12-13 F. K. Dankar , M. K. Ibrahim

The use of synthetic data provides an opportunity to accelerate online safety research and development efforts while showing potential for bias mitigation, facilitating data storage and sharing, preserving privacy and reducing exposure to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Pica Johansson , Jonathan Bright , Shyam Krishna , Claudia Fischer , David Leslie

Synthetic data (SD) have garnered attention as a privacy enhancing technology. Unfortunately, there is no standard for quantifying their degree of privacy protection. In this paper, we discuss proposed quantification approaches. This…

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

This paper provides a detailed survey of synthetic data techniques. We first discuss the expected goals of using synthetic data in data augmentation, which can be divided into four parts: 1) Improving Diversity, 2) Data Balancing, 3)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hsin-Yu Chang , Pei-Yu Chen , Tun-Hsiang Chou , Chang-Sheng Kao , Hsuan-Yun Yu , Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

Data for good implies unfettered access to data. But data owners must be conservative about how, when, and why they share data or risk violating the trust of the people they aim to help, losing their funding, or breaking the law. Data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich , Haoyue Ping , Bernease Herman , Matt Gee

When sharing data among researchers or releasing data for public use, there is a risk of exposing sensitive information of individuals in the data set. Data synthesis (DS) is a statistical disclosure limitation technique for releasing…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-07-01 Claire McKay Bowen , Fang Liu

Formal disclosure avoidance techniques are necessary to ensure that published data can not be used to identify information about individuals. The addition of statistical noise to unpublished data can be implemented to achieve differential…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-10 Ryan Janicki , Scott H. Holan , Kyle M. Irimata , James Livsey , Andrew Raim