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Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are emerging machine learning models for generating synthesized data similar to real data by jointly training a generator and a discriminator. In many applications, data and computational resources are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-20 Jinke Ren , Chonghe Liu , Guanding Yu , Dongning Guo

Generative models producing synthetic data are meant to provide a privacy-friendly approach to releasing data. However, their privacy guarantees are only considered robust when models satisfy Differential Privacy (DP). Alas, this is not a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

With the massive proliferation of data-driven algorithms, such as deep learning-based approaches, the availability of high-quality data is of great interest. Volumetric data is very important in medicine, as it ranges from disease diagnoses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 André Ferreira , Jianning Li , Kelsey L. Pomykala , Jens Kleesiek , Victor Alves , Jan Egger

We propose a general, flexible, and scalable framework dpart, an open source Python library for differentially private synthetic data generation. Central to the approach is autoregressive modelling -- breaking the joint data distribution to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Sofiane Mahiou , Kai Xu , Georgi Ganev

We propose dpmm, an open-source library for synthetic data generation with Differentially Private (DP) guarantees. It includes three popular marginal models -- PrivBayes, MST, and AIM -- that achieve superior utility and offer richer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sofiane Mahiou , Amir Dizche , Reza Nazari , Xinmin Wu , Ralph Abbey , Jorge Silva , Georgi Ganev

As a revolutionary generative paradigm of deep learning, generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been widely applied in various fields to synthesize realistic data. However, it is challenging for conventional GANs to synthesize raw…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-27 Weidong Wang , Jiancheng An , Hongshu Liao , Lu Gan , Chau Yuen

Differential privacy (DP) has been accepted as a rigorous criterion for measuring the privacy protection offered by random mechanisms used to obtain statistics or, as we will study here, synthetic datasets from confidential data. Methods to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Leila Nombo , Anne-Sophie Charest

When a database is protected by Differential Privacy (DP), its usability is limited in scope. In this scenario, generating a synthetic version of the data that mimics the properties of the private data allows users to perform any operation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 David Pujol , Amir Gilad , Ashwin Machanavajjhala

The widespread adoption of electronic health records and digital healthcare data has created a demand for data-driven insights to enhance patient outcomes, diagnostics, and treatments. However, using real patient data presents privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Aryan Jadon , Shashank Kumar

Differentially private (DP) tabular data synthesis generates artificial data that preserves the statistical properties of private data while safeguarding individual privacy. The emergence of diverse algorithms in recent years has introduced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kai Chen , Xiaochen Li , Chen Gong , Ryan McKenna , Tianhao Wang

This paper considers the problem of enhancing user privacy in common machine learning development tasks, such as data annotation and inspection, by substituting the real data with samples form a generative adversarial network. We propose…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-03 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

Power consumption data is very useful as it allows to optimize power grids, detect anomalies and prevent failures, on top of being useful for diverse research purposes. However, the use of power consumption data raises significant privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Ganesh Del Grosso , Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida

We present an approach for generating differentially private synthetic text using large language models (LLMs), via private prediction. In the private prediction framework, we only require the output synthetic data to satisfy differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kareem Amin , Alex Bie , Weiwei Kong , Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Andreas Terzis , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Financial datasets often suffer from bias that can lead to unfair decision-making in automated systems. In this work, we propose FairFinGAN, a WGAN-based framework designed to generate synthetic financial data while mitigating bias with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Tai Le Quy , Dung Nguyen Tuan , Trung Nguyen Thanh , Duy Tran Cong , Huyen Giang Thi Thu , Frank Hopfgartner

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving data analytics in various domains necessitates solutions for synthetic data generation that rigorously uphold privacy standards. We introduce the DP-FedTabDiff framework, a novel integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Recent advances in computing have allowed for the possibility to collect large amounts of data on personal activities and private living spaces. To address the privacy concerns of users in this environment, we propose a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Aria Rezaei , Chaowei Xiao , Jie Gao , Bo Li , Sirajum Munir

As deep learning technologies advance, increasingly more data is necessary to generate general and robust models for various tasks. In the medical domain, however, large-scale and multi-parties data training and analyses are infeasible due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Qi Chang , Zhennan Yan , Lohendran Baskaran , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Tong Zhang , Shaoting Zhang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) can produce synthetic data while reducing privacy risks. However, navigating their privacy-utility tradeoffs makes finding the best models for specific settings/tasks challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Georgi Ganev , Kai Xu , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial topic for financial institutions, driven by multiple factors, such as privacy protection and data augmentation. Many algorithms have been proposed for synthetic data generation but reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Fadi Hamad , Saheed Obitayo , Vamsi K. Potluru

Increasing interest in privacy-preserving machine learning has led to new and evolved approaches for generating private synthetic data from undisclosed real data. However, mechanisms of privacy preservation can significantly reduce the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-23 Sahra Ghalebikesabi , Harrison Wilde , Jack Jewson , Arnaud Doucet , Sebastian Vollmer , Chris Holmes