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Differential Privacy (DP) is commonly employed to safeguard graph analysis or publishing. Distance, a critical factor in graph analysis, is typically handled using curator DP, where a trusted curator holds the complete neighbor lists of all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Weihong Sheng , Jiajun Chen , Bin Cai , Chunqiang Hu , Meng Han , Jiguo Yu

Data plays a fundamental role in consolidating markets, services, and products in the digital financial ecosystem. However, the use of real data, especially in the financial context, can lead to privacy risks and access restrictions,…

The challenges posed by complex stochastic models used in computational ecology, biology and genetics have stimulated the development of approximate approaches to statistical inference. Here we focus on Synthetic Likelihood (SL), a…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-09 Matteo Fasiolo , Simon N. Wood , Florian Hartig , Mark V. Bravington

Synthetic data generation is an appealing tool for augmenting and enriching datasets, playing a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Not only does synthetic data help build robust AI/ML datasets…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-20 José Pulido , Francesc Wilhelmi , Sergio Fortes , Alfonso Fernández-Durán , Lorenzo Galati Giordano , Raquel Barco

Synthetic datasets are widely used in many applications, such as missing data imputation, examining non-stationary scenarios, in simulations, training data-driven models, and analyzing system robustness. Typically, synthetic data are based…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-02-05 Ofek Aloni , Gal Perelman , Barak Fishbain

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising approach to address the challenges of using sensitive financial data in machine learning applications. By leveraging generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 James Meldrum , Basem Suleiman , Fethi Rabhi , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

We introduce a new class of range restricted formal data privacy standards that condition on owner beliefs about sensitive data ranges. By incorporating this additional information, we can provide a stronger privacy guarantee (e.g. an…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-10 Jingchen Hu , Matthew R. Williams , Terrance D. Savitsky

We study discrete distribution estimation under user-level local differential privacy (LDP). In user-level $\varepsilon$-LDP, each user has $m\ge1$ samples and the privacy of all $m$ samples must be preserved simultaneously. We resolve the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Jayadev Acharya , Yuhan Liu , Ziteng Sun

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation plays a pivotal role in developing large language models (LLMs) on private data, where data owners cannot provide eyes-on access to individual examples. Generating DP synthetic data…

When acting as a privacy-enhancing technology, synthetic data generation (SDG) aims to maintain a resemblance to the real data while excluding personally-identifiable information. Many SDG algorithms provide robust differential privacy (DP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Steven Golob , Sikha Pentyala , Anuar Maratkhan , Martine De Cock

Synthetic data generation has the potential to impact applications and domains with scarce data. However, before such data is used for sensitive tasks such as mental health, we need an understanding of how different demographics are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Shinka Mori , Oana Ignat , Andrew Lee , Rada Mihalcea

Synthetic data generation is one approach for sharing individual-level data. However, to meet legislative requirements, it is necessary to demonstrate that the individuals' privacy is adequately protected. There is no consolidated standard…

Marginal-based methods achieve promising performance in the synthetic data competition hosted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). To deal with high-dimensional data, the distribution of synthetic data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Ximing Li , Chendi Wang , Guang Cheng

Anomaly detection suffers from unbalanced data since anomalies are quite rare. Synthetically generated anomalies are a solution to such ill or not fully defined data. However, synthesis requires an expressive representation to guarantee the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Adín Ramírez Rivera , Adil Khan , Imad E. I. Bekkouch , Taimoor S. Sheikh

Modern machine learning models heavily rely on large datasets that often include sensitive and private information, raising serious privacy concerns. Differentially private (DP) data generation offers a solution by creating synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Runkai Zheng , Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Yinong Oliver Wang , Haohan Wang , Fernando De la Torre

Household survey programs around the world publish fine-granular georeferenced microdata to support research on the interdependence of human livelihoods and their surrounding environment. To safeguard the respondents' privacy, micro-level…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Till Koebe , Alejandra Arias-Salazar

In recent years, the growth of data across various sectors, including healthcare, security, finance, and education, has created significant opportunities for analysis and informed decision-making. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Utsab Saha , Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy , Hafiz Imtiaz

Synthetic data is increasingly used to support research without exposing sensitive user content. Social media data is one of the types of datasets that would hugely benefit from representative synthetic equivalents that can be used to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Henry Tari , Adriana Iamnitchi

Since technology is advancing so quickly in the modern era of information, data is becoming an essential resource in many fields. Correct data collection, organization, and analysis make it a potent tool for successful decision-making,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Dilsat Berin Aytar , Semra Gunduc

The collection and analysis of user data drives improvements in the app and web ecosystems, but comes with risks to privacy. This paper examines discrete distribution estimation under local privacy, a setting wherein service providers can…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-06-16 Peter Kairouz , Keith Bonawitz , Daniel Ramage