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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…

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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

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

Institutions collect massive learning traces but they may not disclose it for privacy issues. Synthetic data generation opens new opportunities for research in education. In this paper we present a generative model for educational data that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-09 Jill-Jênn Vie , Tomas Rigaux , Sein Minn

While generative models have proved successful in many domains, they may pose a privacy leakage risk in practical deployment. To address this issue, differentially private generative model learning has emerged as a solution to train private…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Bochao Liu , Pengju Wang , Weijia Guo , Yong Li , Liansheng Zhuang , Weiping Wang , Shiming Ge

We focus on the problem of generating high-quality, private synthetic glucose traces, a task generalizable to many other time series sources. Existing methods for time series data synthesis, such as those using Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Josephine Lamp , Mark Derdzinski , Christopher Hannemann , Joost van der Linden , Lu Feng , Tianhao Wang , David Evans

Privacy protection with synthetic data generation often uses differentially private statistics and model parameters to quantitatively express theoretical security. However, these methods do not take into account privacy protection due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Takayuki Miura , Toshiki Shibahara , Masanobu Kii , Atsunori Ichikawa , Juko Yamamoto , Koji Chida

Due to confidentiality issues, it can be difficult to access or share interesting datasets for methodological development in actuarial science, or other fields where personal data are important. We show how to design three different types…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-17 Marie-Pier Cote , Brian Hartman , Olivier Mercier , Joshua Meyers , Jared Cummings , Elijah Harmon

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

While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Erik Buchholz , Natasha Fernandes , David D. Nguyen , Alsharif Abuadbba , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

While power systems research relies on the availability of real-world network datasets, data owners (e.g., system operators) are hesitant to share data due to security and privacy risks. To control these risks, we develop privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vladimir Dvorkin , Audun Botterud

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

Machine Learning (ML) is accelerating progress across fields and industries, but relies on accessible and high-quality training data. Some of the most important datasets are found in biomedical and financial domains in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Gianluca Truda

The availability of genomic data is essential to progress in biomedical research, personalized medicine, etc. However, its extreme sensitivity makes it problematic, if not outright impossible, to publish or share it. As a result, several…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Bristena Oprisanu , Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Deep learning models can achieve high inference accuracy by extracting rich knowledge from massive well-annotated data, but may pose the risk of data privacy leakage in practical deployment. In this paper, we present an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Bochao Liu , Jianghu Lu , Pengju Wang , Junjie Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

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

Personalized recommender systems rely on each user's personal usage data in the system, in order to assist in decision making. However, privacy policies protecting users' rights prevent these highly personal data from being publicly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Nino Antulov-Fantulin , Matko Bosnjak , Vinko Zlatic , Miha Grcar , Tomislav Smuc

Power consumption data is very useful as it allows to optimize power grids, detect anomalies and prevent failures, on top of being useful for diverse research purposes. However, the use of power consumption data raises significant privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Ganesh Del Grosso , Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida

Synthetic tabular data generation with differential privacy is a crucial problem to enable data sharing with formal privacy. Despite a rich history of methodological research and development, developing differentially private tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Toan V. Tran , Li Xiong

Differential privacy is a mathematical concept that provides an information-theoretic security guarantee. While differential privacy has emerged as a de facto standard for guaranteeing privacy in data sharing, the known mechanisms to…

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