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Deep learning models can achieve high inference accuracy by extracting rich knowledge from massive well-annotated data, but may pose the risk of data privacy leakage in practical deployment. In this paper, we present an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Bochao Liu , Jianghu Lu , Pengju Wang , Junjie Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

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

Recent years have witnessed a surge in the popularity of Machine Learning (ML), applied across diverse domains. However, progress is impeded by the scarcity of training data due to expensive acquisition and privacy legislation. Synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 André Bauer , Simon Trapp , Michael Stenger , Robert Leppich , Samuel Kounev , Mark Leznik , Kyle Chard , Ian Foster

The ability to generate privacy-preserving synthetic versions of sensitive image datasets could unlock numerous ML applications currently constrained by data availability. Due to their astonishing image generation quality, diffusion models…

The availability of large image data sets has been a crucial factor in the success of deep learning-based classification and detection methods. While data sets for everyday objects are widely available, data for specific industrial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Matthew Z. Wong , Kiyohito Kunii , Max Baylis , Wai Hong Ong , Pavel Kroupa , Swen Koller

We present an approach for generating differentially private synthetic text using large language models (LLMs), via private prediction. In the private prediction framework, we only require the output synthetic data to satisfy differential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kareem Amin , Alex Bie , Weiwei Kong , Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Andreas Terzis , Sergei Vassilvitskii

Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

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

Facial Expression Recognition faces two core challenges. The first is class imbalance in public datasets, which skews the learning process and weakens generalization. The second is related to privacy and data collection constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Azmoudeh , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ömer Yıldırım , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

Synthetic data offers a promising path to train models while preserving data privacy. Differentially private (DP) finetuning of large language models (LLMs) as data generator is effective, but is impractical when computation resources are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Bowen Tan , Zheng Xu , Eric Xing , Zhiting Hu , Shanshan Wu

Training generative machine learning models to produce synthetic tabular data has become a popular approach for enhancing privacy in data sharing. As this typically involves processing sensitive personal information, releasing either the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

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

Sharing sensitive data is vital in enabling many modern data analysis and machine learning tasks. However, current methods for data release are insufficiently accurate or granular to provide meaningful utility, and they carry a high risk of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Teddy Cunningham , Graham Cormode , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

The growing use of machine learning (ML) has raised concerns that an ML model may reveal private information about an individual who has contributed to the training dataset. To prevent leakage of sensitive data, we consider using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Yvonne Zhou , Mingyu Liang , Ivan Brugere , Dana Dachman-Soled , Danial Dervovic , Antigoni Polychroniadou , Min Wu

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the well-known models to generate synthetic data including images, especially for research communities that cannot use original sensitive datasets because they are not publicly accessible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Peter Kairouz , Benedict Paten

Artificial intelligence and data access are already mainstream. One of the main challenges when designing an artificial intelligence or disclosing content from a database is preserving the privacy of individuals who participate in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Clément Pierquin , Bastien Zimmermann , Matthieu Boussard

Techniques to deliver privacy-preserving synthetic datasets take a sensitive dataset as input and produce a similar dataset as output while maintaining differential privacy. These approaches have the potential to improve data sharing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for synthetic data generation. A particularly important use case is producing synthetic replicas of private text, which requires carefully balancing privacy and utility. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qian Ma , Sarah Rajtmajer