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Limited data access is a longstanding barrier to data-driven research and development in the networked systems community. In this work, we explore if and how generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to incentivize data sharing by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zinan Lin , Alankar Jain , Chen Wang , Giulia Fanti , Vyas Sekar

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn considerable attention in recent years for their proven capability in generating synthetic data which can be utilised for multiple purposes. While GANs have demonstrated tremendous successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Abdallah Alshantti , Damiano Varagnolo , Adil Rasheed , Aria Rahmati , Frank Westad

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) implicitly learn the probability distribution of a dataset and can draw samples from the distribution. This paper presents, Tabular GAN (TGAN), a generative adversarial network which can generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Lei Xu , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

Fairness has become an essential problem in many domains of Machine Learning (ML), such as classification, natural language processing, and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). In this research effort, we study the unfairness of GANs. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Patrik Joslin Kenfack , Kamil Sabbagh , Adín Ramírez Rivera , Adil Khan

Generative models can serve as surrogates for some real data sources by creating synthetic training datasets, but in doing so they may transfer biases to downstream tasks. We focus on protecting quality and diversity when generating…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Allen Chang , Matthew C. Fontaine , Serena Booth , Maja J. Matarić , Stefanos Nikolaidis

We introduce the DP-auto-GAN framework for synthetic data generation, which combines the low dimensional representation of autoencoders with the flexibility of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This framework can be used to take in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Uthaipon Tantipongpipat , Chris Waites , Digvijay Boob , Amaresh Ankit Siva , Rachel Cummings

Removing bias while keeping all task-relevant information is challenging for fair representation learning methods since they would yield random or degenerate representations w.r.t. labels when the sensitive attributes correlate with labels.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Yixuan Zhang , Feng Zhou , Zhidong Li , Yang Wang , Fang Chen

Synthetic tabular data generation addresses data scarcity and privacy constraints in a variety of domains. Tabular Prior-Data Fitted Network (TabPFN), a recent foundation model for tabular data, has been shown capable of generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Davide Tugnoli , Andrea De Lorenzo , Marco Virgolin , Giovanni Cinà

While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) limit its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as alternative to enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Fairness-aware GANs (FairGANs) exploit the mechanisms of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to impose fairness on the generated data, freeing them from both disparate impact and disparate treatment. Given the model's advantages and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Beatrice Nobile , Gabriele Santin , Bruno Lepri , Pierpaolo Brutti

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are proficient at generating synthetic data but continue to suffer from mode collapse, where the generator produces a narrow range of outputs that fool the discriminator but fail to capture the full…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Mahsa Valizadeh , Rui Tuo , James Caverlee

Research and education in machine learning needs diverse, representative, and open datasets that contain sufficient samples to handle the necessary training, validation, and testing tasks. Currently, the Recommender Systems area includes a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Jesús Bobadilla , Abraham Gutiérrez , Raciel Yera , Luis Martínez

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistic samples from high-dimensional distributions, but training them is considered hard. A possible explanation for training instabilities is the inherent imbalance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-12 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Giambattista Parascandolo , Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf

Conditionality has become a core component for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for generating synthetic images. GANs are usually using latent conditionality to control the generation process. However, tabular data only contains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gael Lederrey , Tim Hillel , Michel Bierlaire

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) are cutting-edge algorithms for generating new data samples based on the learned data distribution. However, its performance comes at a significant cost in terms of computation and memory requirements.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Azzam Alhussain , Mingjie Lin

In this era of digital information explosion, an abundance of data from numerous modalities is being generated as well as archived everyday. However, most problems associated with training Deep Neural Networks still revolve around lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Sravanti Addepalli , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Anirban Chakraborty , R. Venkatesh Babu

Synthetic healthcare data generation offers a promising solution to research limitations in clinical settings caused by privacy and regulatory constraints. However, current synthetic data generation approaches require specialized knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nitish Nagesh , Salar Shakibhamedan , Mahdi Bagheri , Ziyu Wang , Nima TaheriNejad , Axel Jantsch , Amir M. Rahmani

A key assumption of most statistical machine learning methods is that they have access to independent samples from the distribution of data they encounter at test time. As such, these methods often perform poorly in the face of biased data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Xiaoting Shao , Karl Stelzner , Kristian Kersting

We propose Federated Generative Adversarial Network (FedGAN) for training a GAN across distributed sources of non-independent-and-identically-distributed data sources subject to communication and privacy constraints. Our algorithm uses…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Mohammad Rasouli , Tao Sun , Ram Rajagopal