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Privacy-preserving data publication, including synthetic data sharing, often experiences trade-offs between privacy and utility. Synthetic data is generally more effective than data anonymization in balancing this trade-off, however, not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yan Zhou , Bradley Malin , Murat Kantarcioglu

Recently, the topic of table pre-training has attracted considerable research interest. However, how to employ table pre-training to boost the performance of tabular prediction remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose TapTap,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianping Zhang , Shaowen Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Jian Li , Qian Liu

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial topic for financial institutions, driven by multiple factors, such as privacy protection and data augmentation. Many algorithms have been proposed for synthetic data generation but reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Fadi Hamad , Saheed Obitayo , Vamsi K. Potluru

Tabular Generative Models are often argued to preserve privacy by creating synthetic datasets that resemble training data. However, auditing their empirical privacy remains challenging, as commonly used similarity metrics fail to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Joshua Ward , Xiaofeng Lin , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this setting is to release noisy responses to a predefined set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Aadyaa Maddi , Swadhin Routray , Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti

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

Spatiotemporal data is prevalent in a wide range of edge devices, such as those used in personal communication and financial transactions. Recent advancements have sparked a growing interest in integrating spatiotemporal analysis with…

Clinical data usually cannot be freely distributed due to their highly confidential nature and this hampers the development of machine learning in the healthcare domain. One way to mitigate this problem is by generating realistic synthetic…

While synthetic tabular data generation using Deep Generative Models (DGMs) offers a compelling solution to data scarcity and privacy concerns, their effectiveness relies on the availability of substantial training data, often lacking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Patricia A. Apellániz , Ana Jiménez , Borja Arroyo Galende , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

Differentially private GANs have proven to be a promising approach for generating realistic synthetic data without compromising the privacy of individuals. Due to the privacy-protective noise introduced in the training, the convergence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Marcel Neunhoeffer , Zhiwei Steven Wu , Cynthia Dwork

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

Recent advances in generating synthetic data that allow to add principled ways of protecting privacy -- such as Differential Privacy -- are a crucial step in sharing statistical information in a privacy preserving way. But while the focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-04 Christian Arnold , Marcel Neunhoeffer

Synthetic data is emerging as a cost-effective solution necessary to meet the increasing data demands of AI development, created either from existing knowledge or derived from real data. The traditional classification of synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Serena Elizabeth Marshall , Aleksandar Babic , Jan Franz Nygaard

Making evidence based decisions requires data. However for real-world applications, the privacy of data is critical. Using synthetic data which reflects certain statistical properties of the original data preserves the privacy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Varun Chandrasekaran , Darren Edge , Somesh Jha , Amit Sharma , Cheng Zhang , Shruti Tople

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) have been shown to be powerful tools for generating tabular data, as they have been increasingly able to capture the complex distributions that characterize them. However, to generate realistic synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Salijona Dyrmishi , Maxime Cordy , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Eleonora Giunchiglia

Machine learning development critically depends on access to high-quality data. However, increasing restrictions due to privacy, proprietary interests, and ethical concerns have created significant barriers to data accessibility. Synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ivona Krchova , Mariana Vargas Vieyra , Mario Scriminaci , Andrey Sidorenko

Devising procedures for auditing generative model privacy-utility tradeoff is an important yet unresolved problem in practice. Existing works concentrates on investigating the privacy constraint side effect in terms of utility degradation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Yucong Liu , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

With the massive proliferation of data-driven algorithms, such as deep learning-based approaches, the availability of high-quality data is of great interest. Volumetric data is very important in medicine, as it ranges from disease diagnoses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 André Ferreira , Jianning Li , Kelsey L. Pomykala , Jens Kleesiek , Victor Alves , Jan Egger

Signal measurement appearing in the form of time series is one of the most common types of data used in medical machine learning applications. Such datasets are often small in size, expensive to collect and annotate, and might involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Xiaomin Li , Anne Hee Hiong Ngu , Vangelis Metsis

State-of-the-art differentially private synthetic tabular data has been defined by adaptive 'select-measure-generate' frameworks, exemplified by methods like AIM. These approaches iteratively measure low-order noisy marginals and fit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock