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There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

We present a novel approach for differentially private data synthesis of protected tabular datasets, a relevant task in highly sensitive domains such as healthcare and government. Current state-of-the-art methods predominantly use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Konstantin Donhauser , Javier Abad , Neha Hulkund , Fanny Yang

Differential privacy has become a de facto standard for releasing data in a privacy-preserving way. Creating a differentially private algorithm is a process that often starts with a noise-free (non-private) algorithm. The designer then…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Yuxin Wang , Zeyu Ding , Yingtai Xiao , Daniel Kifer , Danfeng Zhang

Polygenic risk scores and other genomic analyses require large individual-level genotype datasets, yet strict data access restrictions impede sharing. Synthetic genotype generation offers a privacy-preserving alternative, but most existing…

In the post-genomic era, large-scale personal DNA sequences are produced and collected for genetic medical diagnoses and new drug discovery, which, however, simultaneously poses serious challenges to the protection of personal genomic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Shibiao Wan , Man-Wai Mak , Sun-Yuan Kung

Classical techniques for protecting facial image privacy typically fall into two categories: data-poisoning methods, exemplified by Fawkes, which introduce subtle perturbations to images, or anonymization methods that generate images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Mariia Zameshina , Marlene Careil , Olivier Teytaud , Laurent Najman

To protect privacy and prevent malicious use of deepfake, current studies propose methods that interfere with the generation process, such as detection and destruction approaches. However, these methods suffer from sub-optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Gido Kato , Yoshihiro Fukuhara , Mariko Isogawa , Hideki Tsunashima , Hirokatsu Kataoka , Shigeo Morishima

Group based anonymization is the most widely studied approach for privacy preserving data publishing. This includes k-anonymity, l-diversity, and t-closeness, to name a few. The goal of this paper is to raise a fundamental issue on the…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-05-13 Raymond Chi-Wing Wong , Ada Wai-Chee Fu , Ke Wang , Yabo Xu , Philip S. Yu

Differential privacy allows quantifying privacy loss resulting from accessing sensitive personal data. Repeated accesses to underlying data incur increasing loss. Releasing data as privacy-preserving synthetic data would avoid this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Joonas Jälkö , Eemil Lagerspetz , Jari Haukka , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Privacy concerns have become increasingly critical in modern AI and data science applications, where sensitive information is collected, analyzed, and shared across diverse domains such as healthcare, finance, and mobility. While prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Ziyao Cui , Minxing Zhang , Jian Pei

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

In this paper, we propose generating artificial data that retain statistical properties of real data as the means of providing privacy with respect to the original dataset. We use generative adversarial network to draw privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

We propose a new framework of synthesizing data using deep generative models in a differentially private manner. Within our framework, sensitive data are sanitized with rigorous privacy guarantees in a one-shot fashion, such that training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Michihiko Ueno

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

Publishing trajectory data (individual's movement information) is very useful, but it also raises privacy concerns. To handle the privacy concern, in this paper, we apply differential privacy, the standard technique for data privacy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Haiming Wang , Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Shibo He , Michael Backes , Jiming Chen , Yang Zhang

Generative AI offers transformative potential for high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, yet privacy and regulatory barriers hinder the use of real-world data. To address this, differentially private synthetic data generation…

Artificial intelligence and data access are already mainstream. One of the main challenges when designing an artificial intelligence or disclosing content from a database is preserving the privacy of individuals who participate in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Clément Pierquin , Bastien Zimmermann , Matthieu Boussard

Rapid advances in human genomics are enabling researchers to gain a better understanding of the role of the genome in our health and well-being, stimulating hope for more effective and cost efficient healthcare. However, this also prompts a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Alexandros Mittos , Bradley Malin , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Large language models (LLMs) have presented outstanding performance in code generation and completion. However, fine-tuning these models on private datasets can raise privacy and proprietary concerns, such as the leakage of sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Zheng Liu , Chen Gong , Terry Yue Zhuo , Kecen Li , Weichen Yu , Matt Fredrikson , Tianhao Wang

Vast amounts of information of all types are collected daily about people by governments, corporations and individuals. The information is collected when users register to or use on-line applications, receive health related services, use…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Eyal Nussbaum , Michael Segal