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In this paper we introduce DISROPT, a Python package for distributed optimization over networks. We focus on cooperative set-ups in which an optimization problem must be solved by peer-to-peer processors (without central coordinators) that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-04-21 Francesco Farina , Andrea Camisa , Andrea Testa , Ivano Notarnicola , Giuseppe Notarstefano

Preserving individual privacy while enabling collaborative data sharing is crucial for organizations. Synthetic data generation is one solution, producing artificial data that mirrors the statistical properties of private data. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Samuel Maddock , Graham Cormode , Carsten Maple

The growing reliance on data-driven applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and law enforcement underscores the need for secure, privacy-preserving, and scalable mechanisms for data generation and sharing. Synthetic data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Eduardo Brito , Mahmoud Shoush , Kristian Tamm , Paula Etti , Liina Kamm

We revisit the problem of generating synthetic data under differential privacy. To address the core limitations of marginal-based methods, we propose the Private Adaptive Generative Adversarial Network with Bayes Network Structure…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-12 Ke Jia , Yuheng Ma , Yang Li , Feifei Wang

Differential privacy (DP) provides a mathematical guarantee limiting what an adversary can learn about any individual from released data. However, achieving this protection typically requires adding noise, and noise can accumulate when many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amir Asiaee , Chao Yan , Zachary B. Abrams , Bradley A. Malin

Differential privacy (DP) is a compelling privacy definition that explains the privacy-utility tradeoff via formal, provable guarantees. Inspired by recent progress toward general-purpose data release algorithms, we propose a private…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Benjamin Coleman , Anshumali Shrivastava

We present a novel method for publishing differentially private synthetic attributed graphs. Unlike preceding approaches, our method is able to preserve the community structure of the original graph without sacrificing the ability to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

The unavailability of training data is a permanent source of much frustration in research, especially when it is due to privacy concerns. This is particularly true for location data since previous techniques all suffer from the inherent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Szilvia Lestyán , Gergely Ács , Gergely Biczók

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

Synthetic data generation, a cornerstone of Generative Artificial Intelligence, promotes a paradigm shift in data science by addressing data scarcity and privacy while enabling unprecedented performance. As synthetic data becomes more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Xiaotong Shen , Yifei Liu , Rex Shen

Large Language models (LLMs) are achieving state-of-the-art performance in many different downstream tasks. However, the increasing urgency of data privacy puts pressure on practitioners to train LLMs with Differential Privacy (DP) on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 James Flemings , Murali Annavaram

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

In privacy-preserving machine learning, individual parties are reluctant to share their sensitive training data due to privacy concerns. Even the trained model parameters or prediction can pose serious privacy leakage. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Lingjuan Lyu , Yee Wei Law , Kee Siong Ng , Shibei Xue , Jun Zhao , Mengmeng Yang , Lei Liu

We study private synthetic data generation for query release, where the goal is to construct a sanitized version of a sensitive dataset, subject to differential privacy, that approximately preserves the answers to a large collection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Terrance Liu , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

We study the problem of differentially private synthetic data generation for hierarchical datasets in which individual data points are grouped together (e.g., people within households). In particular, to measure the similarity between the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Terrance Liu , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Deep generative models can help with data scarcity and privacy by producing synthetic training data, but they struggle in low-data, imbalanced tabular settings to fully learn the complex data distribution. We argue that striving for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-12 Xiaofeng Lin , Seungbae Kim , Zhuoya Li , Zachary DeSoto , Charles Fleming , Guang Cheng

Data privacy is a major issue for many decades, several techniques have been developed to make sure individuals' privacy but still world has seen privacy failures. In 2006, Cynthia Dwork gave the idea of Differential Privacy which gave…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Muhammad Aitsam

Differential Privacy (DP) image data synthesis, which leverages the DP technique to generate synthetic data to replace the sensitive data, allowing organizations to share and utilize synthetic images without privacy concerns. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kecen Li , Chen Gong , Zhixiang Li , Yuzhong Zhao , Xinwen Hou , Tianhao Wang

The increasing availability of personal data has enabled significant advances in fields such as machine learning, healthcare, and cybersecurity. However, this data abundance also raises serious privacy concerns, especially in light of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Napsu Karmitsa , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala , Tinja Pitkämäki

Inspired by the principle of deliberate practice in human learning, we propose Deliberate Practice for Synthetic Data Generation (DP), a novel framework that improves sample efficiency through dynamic synthetic data generation. Prior work…