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Modern machine learning models heavily rely on large datasets that often include sensitive and private information, raising serious privacy concerns. Differentially private (DP) data generation offers a solution by creating synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Runkai Zheng , Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Yinong Oliver Wang , Haohan Wang , Fernando De la Torre

High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xuemei Jia , Jiawei Du , Hui Wei , Jun Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zheng Wang

Although the recent advancement in generative models brings diverse advantages to society, it can also be abused with malicious purposes, such as fraud, defamation, and fake news. To prevent such cases, vigorous research is conducted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Yonghyun Jeong , Doyeon Kim , Pyounggeon Kim , Youngmin Ro , Jongwon Choi

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

The scarcity of high-quality residential load data can pose obstacles for decarbonizing the residential sector as well as effective grid planning and operation. The above challenges have motivated research into generating synthetic load…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Xinyu Liang , Hao Wang

We propose two synthetic microdata approaches to generate private tabular survey data products for public release. We adapt a pseudo posterior mechanism that downweights by-record likelihood contributions with weights $\in [0,1]$ based on…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-07 Jingchen Hu , Terrance D. Savitsky , Matthew R. Williams

We propose a general approach for differentially private synthetic data generation, that consists of three steps: (1) select a collection of low-dimensional marginals, (2) measure those marginals with a noise addition mechanism, and (3)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Ryan McKenna , Gerome Miklau , Daniel Sheldon

While synthetic data hold great promise for privacy protection, their statistical analysis poses significant challenges that necessitate innovative solutions. The use of deep generative models (DGMs) for synthetic data generation is known…

Federated machine learning systems have been widely used to facilitate the joint data analytics across the distributed datasets owned by the different parties that do not trust each others. In this paper, we proposed a novel Gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Zhi Fengy , Haoyi Xiong , Chuanyuan Song , Sijia Yang , Baoxin Zhao , Licheng Wang , Zeyu Chen , Shengwen Yang , Liping Liu , Jun Huan

Common datasets have the form of elements with keys (e.g., transactions and products) and the goal is to perform analytics on the aggregated form of key and frequency pairs. A weighted sample of keys by (a function of) frequency is a highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Edith Cohen , Ofir Geri , Tamas Sarlos , Uri Stemmer

Tabular data synthesis has received wide attention in the literature. This is because available data is often limited, incomplete, or cannot be obtained easily, and data privacy is becoming increasingly important. In this work, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jaehoon Lee , Jihyeon Hyeong , Jinsung Jeon , Noseong Park , Jihoon Cho

Sharing medical data for machine learning model training purposes is often impossible due to the risk of disclosing identifying information about individual patients. Synthetic data produced by generative artificial intelligence (genAI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Rustam Zhumagambetov , Niklas Giesa , Sebastian D. Boie , Stefan Haufe

In this paper, we propose an approach to obtain a personalized generative prior with explicit control over a set of attributes. We build upon MyStyle, a recently introduced method, that tunes the weights of a pre-trained StyleGAN face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Libing Zeng , Lele Chen , Yi Xu , Nima Kalantari

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have promoted a variety of applications in computer vision, natural language processing, etc. due to its generative model's compelling ability to generate realistic examples plausibly drawn from an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zhipeng Cai , Zuobin Xiong , Honghui Xu , Peng Wang , Wei Li , Yi Pan

Although machine learning models trained on massive data have led to break-throughs in several areas, their deployment in privacy-sensitive domains remains limited due to restricted access to data. Generative models trained with privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Alex Bie , Arash Vahdat , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

We introduce a simple framework for designing private boosting algorithms. We give natural conditions under which these algorithms are differentially private, efficient, and noise-tolerant PAC learners. To demonstrate our framework, we use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Mark Bun , Marco Leandro Carmosino , Jessica Sorrell

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

A wide variety of fundamental data analyses in machine learning, such as linear and logistic regression, require minimizing a convex function defined by the data. Since the data may contain sensitive information about individuals, and these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jonathan Ullman

Various privacy-preserving frameworks that respect the individual's privacy in the analysis of data have been developed in recent years. However, available model classes such as simple statistics or generalized linear models lack the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-13 Daniel Schalk , Bernd Bischl , David Rügamer

A key factor in developing high performing machine learning models is the availability of sufficiently large datasets. This work is motivated by applications arising in Software as a Service (SaaS) companies where there exist numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-05 Sophia Collet , Robert Dadashi , Zahi N. Karam , Chang Liu , Parinaz Sobhani , Yevgeniy Vahlis , Ji Chao Zhang