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Synthetic data generation is a fundamental task for many data management and data science applications. Spatial data is of particular interest, and its sensitive nature often leads to privacy concerns. We introduce GeoPointGAN, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Teddy Cunningham , Konstantin Klemmer , Hongkai Wen , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Objective: To enable privacy-preserving learning of high quality generative and discriminative machine learning models from distributed electronic health records. Methods and Results: We describe general and scalable strategy to build…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Marina Blanton , Ah Reum Kang , Subhadeep Karan , Jaroslaw Zola

Tabular generative adversarial networks (TGAN) have recently emerged to cater to the need of synthesizing tabular data -- the most widely used data format. While synthetic tabular data offers the advantage of complying with privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Chen

The wide-spread availability of rich data has fueled the growth of machine learning applications in numerous domains. However, growth in domains with highly-sensitive data (e.g., medical) is largely hindered as the private nature of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Dingfan Chen , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Differentially private synthetic data is a promising alternative for sensitive data release. Many differentially private generative models have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, they all suffer from the low utility of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Cao , Chun-Ying Huang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are a valuable asset to facilitate clinical research and point of care applications; however, many challenges such as data privacy concerns impede its optimal utilization. Deep generative models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Ghadeer Ghosheh , Jin Li , Tingting Zhu

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have recently been widely adopted in various applications, and such success is largely due to a combination of algorithmic breakthroughs, computation resource improvements, and access to a large amount of data.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Qingrong Chen , Chong Xiang , Minhui Xue , Bo Li , Nikita Borisov , Dali Kaarfar , Haojin Zhu

This work presents a systematic benchmark of differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms that can generate tabular data. Utility of the synthetic data is evaluated by measuring whether the synthetic data preserve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuchao Tao , Ryan McKenna , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

Much of the research in differential privacy has focused on offline applications with the assumption that all data is available at once. When these algorithms are applied in practice to streams where data is collected over time, this either…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Girish Kumar , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Synthetic data generation (SDG) is a promising approach for enabling data sharing in biomedical studies while preserving patient privacy. Yet, state-of-the-art generative models often require large datasets and complex training procedures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Natalia Espinosa-Dice , Nicholas J. Jackson , Chao Yan , Aaron Lee , Bradley A. Malin

As more and more data is collected in various settings across organizations, companies, and countries, there has been an increase in the demand of user privacy. Developing privacy preserving methods for data analytics is thus an important…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-18 David Ericsson , Adam Östberg , Edvin Listo Zec , John Martinsson , Olof Mogren

Users of a personalised recommendation system face a dilemma: recommendations can be improved by learning from data, but only if the other users are willing to share their private information. Good personalised predictions are vitally…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-12 Antti Honkela , Mrinal Das , Arttu Nieminen , Onur Dikmen , Samuel Kaski

In the realm of IoT/CPS systems connected over mobile networks, traditional intrusion detection methods analyze network traffic across multiple devices using anomaly detection techniques to flag potential security threats. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Anantaa Kotal , Brandon Luton , Anupam Joshi

Training generative models with differential privacy (DP) typically involves injecting noise into gradient updates or adapting the discriminator's training procedure. As a result, such approaches often struggle with hyper-parameter tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Kristjan Greenewald , Yuancheng Yu , Hao Wang , Kai Xu

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

Access to individual-level health data is essential for gaining new insights and advancing science. In particular, modern methods based on artificial intelligence rely on the availability of and access to large datasets. In the health…

The limited data availability due to strict privacy regulations and significant resource demands severely constrains biomedical time-series AI development, which creates a critical gap between data requirements and accessibility. Synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Youngjoon Lee , Seongmin Cho , Yehhyun Jo , Jinu Gong , Hyunjoo Jenny Lee , Joonhyuk Kang

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

The integration of privacy measures, including differential privacy techniques, ensures a provable privacy guarantee for the synthetic data. However, challenges arise for Generative Deep Learning models when tasked with generating realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a ubiquitous technology for data generation, with their prowess in image generation being well-established. However, their application in generating tabular data has been less than ideal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zijian Li , Zhihui Wang