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As sufficient data are not always publically accessible for model training, researchers exploit limited data with advanced learning algorithms or expand the dataset via data augmentation (DA). Conducting DA in private domain requires…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Yiping Song , Juhua Zhang , Zhiliang Tian , Yuxin Yang , Minlie Huang , Dongsheng Li

While many deep learning models trained on private datasets have been deployed in various practical tasks, they may pose a privacy leakage risk as attackers could recover informative data or label knowledge from models. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Bochao Liu , Shiming Ge , Pengju Wang , Shikun Li , Tongliang Liu

Generating new samples from data sets can mitigate extra expensive operations, increased invasive procedures, and mitigate privacy issues. These novel samples that are statistically robust can be used as a temporary and intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-26 David Banh , Alan Huang

A continuing challenge for machine learning is providing methods to perform computation on data while ensuring the data remains private. In this paper we build on the provable privacy guarantees of differential privacy which has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-23 Michael Thomas Smith , Mauricio A. Alvarez , Neil D. Lawrence

A major challenge for machine learning is increasing the availability of data while respecting the privacy of individuals. Here we combine the provable privacy guarantees of the differential privacy framework with the flexibility of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-18 Michael Thomas Smith , Max Zwiessele , Neil D. Lawrence

We study differentially private mean estimation in a high-dimensional setting. Existing differential privacy techniques applied to large dimensions lead to computationally intractable problems or estimators with excessive privacy loss.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Aditya Dhar , Jason Huang

Machine Learning (ML) has achieved enormous success in solving a variety of problems in computer vision, speech recognition, object detection, to name a few. The principal reason for this success is the availability of huge datasets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Efstathia Soufleri , Gobinda Saha , Kaushik Roy

Privacy-preserving data analysis is emerging as a challenging problem with far-reaching impact. In particular, synthetic data are a promising concept toward solving the aporetic conflict between data privacy and data sharing. Yet, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Differential privacy has emerged as an significant cornerstone in the realm of scientific hypothesis testing utilizing confidential data. In reporting scientific discoveries, Bayesian tests are widely adopted since they effectively…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-22 Abhisek Chakraborty , Saptati Datta

Recent advances in generative modelling have led many to see synthetic data as the go-to solution for a range of problems around data access, scarcity, and under-representation. In this paper, we study three prominent use cases: (1) Sharing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Bogdan Kulynych , Theresa Stadler , Jean Louis Raisaro , Carmela Troncoso

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

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

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

Privacy concerns around sharing personally identifiable information are a major practical barrier to data sharing in medical research. However, in many cases, researchers have no interest in a particular individual's information but rather…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-18 August DuMont Schütte , Jürgen Hetzel , Sergios Gatidis , Tobias Hepp , Benedikt Dietz , Stefan Bauer , Patrick Schwab

Dataset distillation enables the training of deep neural networks with comparable performance in significantly reduced time by compressing large datasets into small and representative ones. Although the introduction of generative models has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mingzhuo Li , Guang Li , Jiafeng Mao , Takahiro Ogawa , Miki Haseyama

We study the sample complexity of private synthetic data generation over an unbounded sized class of statistical queries, and show that any class that is privately proper PAC learnable admits a private synthetic data generator (perhaps…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Olivier Bousquet , Roi Livni , Shay Moran

Data scientists often seek to identify the most important features in high-dimensional datasets. This can be done through $L_1$-regularized regression, but this can become inefficient for very high-dimensional datasets. Additionally,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Ryan Swope , Amol Khanna , Philip Doldo , Saptarshi Roy , Edward Raff

Developing machine learning methods that are privacy preserving is today a central topic of research, with huge practical impacts. Among the numerous ways to address privacy-preserving learning, we here take the perspective of computing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Liva Ralaivola

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