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Generative modelling has become the standard approach for synthesising tabular data. However, different use cases demand synthetic data to comply with different requirements to be useful in practice. In this survey, we review deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Thomas Lukasiewicz

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…

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The public availability of collections containing user preferences is of vital importance for performing offline evaluations in the field of recommender systems. However, the number of rating datasets is limited because of the costs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Diego Monti , Giuseppe Rizzo , Maurizio Morisio

AI-based data synthesis has seen rapid progress over the last several years, and is increasingly recognized for its promise to enable privacy-respecting high-fidelity data sharing. However, adequately evaluating the quality of generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-02 Michael Platzer , Thomas Reutterer

As more tech companies engage in rigorous economic analyses, we are confronted with a data problem: in-house papers cannot be replicated due to use of sensitive, proprietary, or private data. Readers are left to assume that the obscured…

General Economics · Economics 2020-11-10 Allison Koenecke , Hal Varian

Recent approaches in skill matching, employing synthetic training data for classification or similarity model training, have shown promising results, reducing the need for time-consuming and expensive annotations. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Antoine Magron , Anna Dai , Mike Zhang , Syrielle Montariol , Antoine Bosselut

The synthetic data approach to data confidentiality has been actively researched on, and for the past decade or so, a good number of high quality work on developing innovative synthesizers, creating appropriate utility measures and risk…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-11 Jingchen Hu

Evaluating the quality of synthetic data remains a key challenge for ensuring privacy and utility in data-driven research. In this work, we present an evaluation framework that quantifies how well synthetic data replicates original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Andrey Sidorenko , Michael Platzer , Mario Scriminaci , Paul Tiwald

The rapid growth in data availability has facilitated research and development, yet not all industries have benefited equally due to legal and privacy constraints. The healthcare sector faces significant challenges in utilizing patient data…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-18 Katariina Perkonoja , Kari Auranen , Joni Virta

In a world where artificial intelligence and data science become omnipresent, data sharing is increasingly locking horns with data-privacy concerns. Differential privacy has emerged as a rigorous framework for protecting individual privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-06 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Background: Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution for sharing anonymized versions of sensitive biomedical datasets. Ideally, synthetic data should preserve the structure and statistical properties of the original data, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ileana Montoya Perez , Parisa Movahedi , Valtteri Nieminen , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala

We provide a differentially private algorithm for producing synthetic data simultaneously useful for multiple tasks: marginal queries and multitask machine learning (ML). A key innovation in our algorithm is the ability to directly handle…

Machine learning heavily relies on data, but real-world applications often encounter various data-related issues. These include data of poor quality, insufficient data points leading to under-fitting of machine learning models, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yingzhou Lu , Lulu Chen , Yuanyuan Zhang , Minjie Shen , Huazheng Wang , Xiao Wang , Capucine van Rechem , Tianfan Fu , Wenqi Wei

A significant challenge in wet lab experiments with current drug design generative models is the trade-off between pharmacological properties and synthesizability. Molecules predicted to have highly desirable properties are often difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Songtao Liu , Dandan Zhang , Zhengkai Tu , Hanjun Dai , Peng Liu

Generative models have been found effective for data synthesis due to their ability to capture complex underlying data distributions. The quality of generated data from these models is commonly evaluated by visual inspection for image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Emily Muller , Xu Zheng , Jer Hayes

Alongside the growth of generative AI, we are witnessing a surge in the use of synthetic data across all stages of the AI development pipeline. It is now common practice for researchers and practitioners to use one large generative model…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Shivani Kapania , Stephanie Ballard , Alex Kessler , Jennifer Wortman Vaughan

Differentially private training algorithms like DP-SGD protect sensitive training data by ensuring that trained models do not reveal private information. An alternative approach, which this paper studies, is to use a sensitive dataset to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Liam MacDermed , Andreas Terzis

Synthetic medical image data can unlock the potential of deep learning (DL)-based clinical decision support (CDS) systems through the creation of large scale, privacy-preserving, training sets. Despite the significant progress in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Panagiota Gatoula , George Dimas , Dimitris K. Iakovidis

Conducting research often involves managing multiple disconnected tools for survey design, data collection, response analysis, and report generation, leading to inefficiencies, increased error risks, and challenges in ensuring…

Computation · Statistics 2025-08-11 Clievins Selva

Programmatically generated synthetic data has been used in differential private training for classification to enhance performance without privacy leakage. However, as the synthetic data is generated from a random process, the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujin Choi , Jinseong Park , Junyoung Byun , Jaewook Lee