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Synthetic data generation is a fundamental task for many data management and data science applications. Spatial data is of particular interest, and its sensitive nature often leads to privacy concerns. We introduce GeoPointGAN, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Teddy Cunningham , Konstantin Klemmer , Hongkai Wen , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

The scarcity of accessible, compliant, and ethically sourced data presents a considerable challenge to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in sensitive fields like healthcare, finance, and biomedical research. Furthermore, access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Kumar Kshitij Patel , Weitong Zhang , Lingxiao Wang

Data is used widely by service providers as input to inference systems to perform decision making for authorized tasks. The raw data however allows a service provider to infer other sensitive information it has not been authorized for. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Chong Xiao Wang , Wee Peng Tay

With the increasing popularity of graph neural networks (GNNs) in several sensitive applications like healthcare and medicine, concerns have been raised over the privacy aspects of trained GNNs. More notably, GNNs are vulnerable to privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Iyiola E. Olatunji , Thorben Funke , Megha Khosla

With powerful parallel computing GPUs and massive user data, neural-network-based deep learning can well exert its strong power in problem modeling and solving, and has archived great success in many applications such as image…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang , Qin Zou , Yan Zhang , Yanjiao Chen

The preservation of privacy has emerged as a critical topic in the era of artificial intelligence. However, current work focuses on user-oriented privacy, overlooking severe enterprise data leakage risks exacerbated by the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zhihao Yao , Yuxuan Gu , Xiachong Feng , Weitao Ma , Bo Li , Xiaocheng Feng

Data-driven agriculture, which integrates technology and data into agricultural practices, has the potential to improve crop yield, disease resilience, and long-term soil health. However, privacy concerns, such as adverse pricing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Osama Zafar , Rosemarie Santa González , Mina Namazi , Alfonso Morales , Erman Ayday

When users submit queries to Large Language Models (LLMs), their prompts can often contain sensitive data, forcing a difficult choice: Send the query to a powerful proprietary LLM providers to achieving state-of-the-art performance and risk…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zheng Hui , Yijiang River Dong , Sanhanat Sivapiromrat , Ehsan Shareghi , Nigel Collier

Credit risk modeling has permeated our everyday life. Most banks and financial companies use this technique to model their clients' trustworthiness. While machine learning is increasingly used in this field, the resulting large-scale…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Yuli Zheng , Zhenyu Wu , Ye Yuan , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

The privacy and security of face data on social media are facing unprecedented challenges as it is vulnerable to unauthorized access and identification. A common practice for solving this problem is to modify the original data so that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Yueming Lyu , Yue Jiang , Ziwen He , Bo Peng , Yunfan Liu , Jing Dong

With the recent remarkable advancement of large language models (LLMs), there has been a growing interest in utilizing them in the domains with highly sensitive data that lies outside their training data. For this purpose,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tatsuki Koga , Ruihan Wu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Differential privacy has emerged as a gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. A popular variant is local differential privacy, where the data holder is the trusted curator. A major barrier, however, towards a wider adoption of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Joseph Geumlek , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Deep Learning has recently become hugely popular in machine learning, providing significant improvements in classification accuracy in the presence of highly-structured and large databases. Researchers have also considered privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Briland Hitaj , Giuseppe Ateniese , Fernando Perez-Cruz

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

Data is the main fuel of a successful machine learning model. A dataset may contain sensitive individual records e.g. personal health records, financial data, industrial information, etc. Training a model using this sensitive data has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Joydeb Kumar Sana , M Sohel Rahman , M Saifur Rahman

Personalized AI agents rely on access to a user's digital footprint, which often includes sensitive data from private emails, chats and purchase histories. Yet this access creates a fundamental societal and privacy risk: systems lacking…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Srija Mukhopadhyay , Sathwik Reddy , Shruthi Muthukumar , Jisun An , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Synthetic data inherits the differential privacy guarantees of the model used to generate it. Additionally, synthetic data may benefit from privacy amplification when the generative model is kept hidden. While empirical studies suggest this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Clément Pierquin , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Matthieu Boussard

Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-13 Seyed Ali Osia , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Ali Taheri , Kleomenis Katevas , Hamid R. Rabiee , Nicholas D. Lane , Hamed Haddadi

Real-world data is usually segmented by attributes and distributed across different parties. Federated learning empowers collaborative training without exposing local data or models. As we demonstrate through designed attacks, even with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-30 Shuang Zhang , Liyao Xiang , Xi Yu , Pengzhi Chu , Yingqi Chen , Chen Cen , Li Wang

Generative machine learning models are being increasingly viewed as a way to share sensitive data between institutions. While there has been work on developing differentially private generative modeling approaches, these approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yixi Xu , Sumit Mukherjee , Xiyang Liu , Shruti Tople , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres