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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

Access to genomic data is highly regulated due to its sensitive nature. While safeguards are essential, cumbersome data access processes pose a significant barrier to the development of AI methods for genomics. Synthetic data generation can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daniil Filienko , Martine De Cock , Sikha Pentyala

Synthetic network traffic generation has emerged as a promising alternative for various data-driven applications in the networking domain. It enables the creation of synthetic data that preserves real-world characteristics while addressing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Nirhoshan Sivaroopan , Kaushitha Silva , Chamara Madarasingha , Thilini Dahanayaka , Guillaume Jourjon , Anura Jayasumana , Kanchana Thilakarathna

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

A common approach to synthetic data is to sample from a fitted model. We show that under general assumptions, this approach results in a sample with inefficient estimators and whose joint distribution is inconsistent with the true…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Jordan Awan , Zhanrui Cai

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

This paper addresses the challenge of overfitting in the learning of dynamical systems by introducing a novel approach for the generation of synthetic data, aimed at enhancing model generalization and robustness in scenarios characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Dario Piga , Matteo Rufolo , Gabriele Maroni , Manas Mejari , Marco Forgione

Individual-level human mobility prediction has emerged as a significant topic of research with applications in infectious disease monitoring, child, and elderly care. Existing studies predominantly focus on the microscopic aspects of human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yueyang Liu , Lance Kennedy , Ruochen Kong , Joon-Seok Kim , Andreas Züfle

In distributed computing environments, collaborative machine learning enables multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively. To preserve privacy in such settings, a common technique is to utilize frequent updates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Chia-Yuan Wu , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson

Recent advances in generative modelling have led many to see synthetic data as the go-to solution for a range of problems around data access, scarcity, and under-representation. In this paper, we study three prominent use cases: (1) Sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bogdan Kulynych , Theresa Stadler , Jean Louis Raisaro , Carmela Troncoso

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) research often aims to develop models that can generalize reliably across complex datasets, yet this remains challenging in fields where data is scarce, intricate, or inaccessible. This paper introduces a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Mohammad Zbeeb , Mohammad Ghorayeb , Mariam Salman

The performance of supervised deep learning algorithms depends significantly on the scale, quality and diversity of the data used for their training. Collecting and manually annotating large amount of data can be both time-consuming and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 C. Symeonidis , P. Nousi , P. Tosidis , K. Tsampazis , N. Passalis , A. Tefas , N. Nikolaidis

Synthetic contact networks are useful for modeling epidemic spread and social transmission, but data to infer realistic contact patterns that take account of assortative connections at the geographic and economic levels is limited. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Alexander Y. Tulchinsky , Fardad Haghpanah , Alisa Hamilton , Nodar Kipshidze , Eili Y. Klein

We address the problem of indoor layout synthesis, which is a topic of continuing research interest in computer graphics. The newest works made significant progress using data-driven generative methods; however, these approaches rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Kurt Leimer , Paul Guerrero , Tomer Weiss , Przemyslaw Musialski

Synthetic data is emerging as a cost-effective solution necessary to meet the increasing data demands of AI development, created either from existing knowledge or derived from real data. The traditional classification of synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Serena Elizabeth Marshall , Aleksandar Babic , Jan Franz Nygaard

Probabilistic relational models provide a well-established formalism to combine first-order logic and probabilistic models, thereby allowing to represent relationships between objects in a relational domain. At the same time, the field of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Malte Luttermann , Ralf Möller , Mattis Hartwig

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tshilidzi Marwala , Eleonore Fournier-Tombs , Serge Stinckwich

We describe customized synthetic datasets for publishing mobility data. Private companies are providing new transportation modalities, and their data is of high value for integrative transportation research, policy enforcement, and public…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-01-28 Luke Rodriguez , Babak Salimi , Haoyue Ping , Julia Stoyanovich , Bill Howe

How can we release a massive volume of sensitive data while mitigating privacy risks? Privacy-preserving data synthesis enables the data holder to outsource analytical tasks to an untrusted third party. The state-of-the-art approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shun Takagi , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa