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Differentially private synthetic data generation offers a recent solution to release analytically useful data while preserving the privacy of individuals in the data. In order to utilize these algorithms for public policy decisions,…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-13 Claire McKay Bowen , Joshua Snoke

The growing use of machine learning (ML) has raised concerns that an ML model may reveal private information about an individual who has contributed to the training dataset. To prevent leakage of sensitive data, we consider using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yvonne Zhou , Mingyu Liang , Ivan Brugere , Dana Dachman-Soled , Danial Dervovic , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Min Wu

Synthetic data is emerging as one of the most promising solutions to share individual-level data while safeguarding privacy. While membership inference attacks (MIAs), based on shadow modeling, have become the standard to evaluate the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Florent Guépin , Matthieu Meeus , Ana-Maria Cretu , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

The eruption of big data with the increasing collection and processing of vast volumes and variety of data have led to breakthrough discoveries and innovation in science, engineering, medicine, commerce, criminal justice, and national…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-03 Fang Liu

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

Synthesizing relational data has started to receive more attention from researchers, practitioners, and industry. The task is more difficult than synthesizing a single table due to the added complexity of relationships between tables. For…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Valter Hudovernik , Martin Jurkovič , Erik Štrumbelj

Training data is fundamental to the success of modern machine learning models, yet in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, the use of real-world training data is severely constrained by concerns over privacy leakage. A promising solution…

Safe and reliable disclosure of information from confidential data is a challenging statistical problem. A common approach considers the generation of synthetic data, to be disclosed instead of the original data. Efficient approaches ought…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-03-04 Larissa N. A. Martins , Flávio B. Gonçalves , Thais P. Galletti

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

*Data Synthesis* is a promising way to train a small model with very little labeled data. One approach for data synthesis is to leverage the rich knowledge from large language models to synthesize pseudo training examples for small models,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Ruida Wang , Wangchunshu Zhou , Mrinmaya Sachan

Generative AI technologies are gaining unprecedented popularity, causing a mix of excitement and apprehension through their remarkable capabilities. In this paper, we study the challenges associated with deploying synthetic data, a subfield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lauren Arthur , Jason Costello , Jonathan Hardy , Will O'Brien , James Rea , Gareth Rees , Georgi Ganev

The evaluation of synthetic data generation is crucial, especially in the retail sector where data accuracy is paramount. This paper introduces a comprehensive framework for assessing synthetic retail data, focusing on fidelity, utility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Yu Xia , Chi-Hua Wang , Joshua Mabry , Guang Cheng

Machine learning has significant potential for optimizing various industrial processes. However, data acquisition remains a major challenge as it is both time-consuming and costly. Synthetic data offers a promising solution to augment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Georg Rottenwalter , Marcel Tilly , Christian Bielenberg , Katharina Obermeier

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a practical method for improving access to data as a means to encourage productive partnerships. One issue inherent to DP is that the "privacy budget" is generally "spent" evenly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Joshua Allen , Julia Stoyanovich

Differentially private synthetic data provide a powerful mechanism to enable data analysis while protecting sensitive information about individuals. However, when the data lie in a high-dimensional space, the accuracy of the synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Yiyun He , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin , Yizhe Zhu

To develop public health intervention models using microsimulations, extensive personal information about inhabitants is needed, such as socio-demographic, economic and health figures. Data confidentiality is an essential characteristic of…

Applications · Statistics 2022-02-10 M. A. Nicolaie , Koen Fussenich , Caroline Ameling , Hendriek C. Boshuizen

Exploiting the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, showcased by ChatGPT and DALL-E, in real-world applications necessitates vast, domain-specific, and publicly accessible datasets. Unfortunately, the scarcity of such datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Cyril Picard , Jürg Schiffmann , Faez Ahmed

Advances in generative models have transformed the field of synthetic image generation for privacy-preserving data synthesis (PPDS). However, the field lacks a comprehensive survey and comparison of synthetic image generation methods across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yunsung Chung , Yunbei Zhang , Nassir Marrouche , Jihun Hamm

Privacy is an important concern for our society where sharing data with partners or releasing data to the public is a frequent occurrence. Some of the techniques that are being used to achieve privacy are to remove identifiers, alter…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Noseong Park , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Kshitij Gorde , Sushil Jajodia , Hongkyu Park , Youngmin Kim