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Generative models are subject to overfitting and thus may potentially leak sensitive information from the training data. In this work. we investigate the privacy risks that can potentially arise from the use of generative adversarial…

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Differentially private training algorithms like DP-SGD protect sensitive training data by ensuring that trained models do not reveal private information. An alternative approach, which this paper studies, is to use a sensitive dataset to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Liam MacDermed , Andreas Terzis

Models need to be trained with privacy-preserving learning algorithms to prevent leakage of possibly sensitive information contained in their training data. However, canonical algorithms like differentially private stochastic gradient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Yannis Cattan , Christopher A. Choquette-Choo , Nicolas Papernot , Abhradeep Thakurta

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) can produce synthetic data while reducing privacy risks. However, navigating their privacy-utility tradeoffs makes finding the best models for specific settings/tasks challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Georgi Ganev , Kai Xu , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Training machine learning models based on neural networks requires large datasets, which may contain sensitive information. The models, however, should not expose private information from these datasets. Differentially private SGD [DP-SGD]…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Francisco Aguilera-Martínez , Fernando Berzal

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a popular mechanism for training machine learning models with bounded leakage about the presence of specific points in the training data. The cost of differential privacy is a reduction in the model's accuracy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Eugene Bagdasaryan , Vitaly Shmatikov

Recent research shows that modern deep learning models achieve high predictive accuracy partly by memorizing individual training samples. Such memorization raises serious privacy concerns, motivating the widespread adoption of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Jiaming Zhang , Huanyi Xie , Meng Ding , Shaopeng Fu , Jinyan Liu , Di Wang

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (CGANs) exhibit significant potential in supervised learning model training by virtue of their ability to generate realistic labeled images. However, numerous studies have indicated the privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zepeng Jiang , Weiwei Ni , Yifan Zhang

Big data analysis poses the dual problem of privacy preservation and utility, i.e., how accurate data analyses remain after transforming original data in order to protect the privacy of the individuals that the data is about - and whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Md Sakib Nizam Khan , Niklas Reje , Sonja Buchegger

Deep learning holds immense promise for aiding radiologists in breast cancer detection. However, achieving optimal model performance is hampered by limitations in availability and sharing of data commonly associated to patient privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Richard Osuala , Daniel M. Lang , Anneliese Riess , Georgios Kaissis , Zuzanna Szafranowska , Grzegorz Skorupko , Oliver Diaz , Julia A. Schnabel , Karim Lekadir

The widespread adoption of dynamic Time-of-Use (dToU) electricity tariffs requires accurately identifying households that would benefit from such pricing structures. However, the use of real consumption data poses serious privacy concerns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Andre Catarino , Rui Melo , Rui Abreu , Luis Cruz

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have become a ubiquitous technology for data generation, with their prowess in image generation being well-established. However, their application in generating tabular data has been less than ideal.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zijian Li , Zhihui Wang

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data is a promising approach to maximizing the utility of data containing sensitive information. Due to the suppression of underrepresented classes that is often required to achieve privacy, however, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Blake Bullwinkel , Kristen Grabarz , Lily Ke , Scarlett Gong , Chris Tanner , Joshua Allen

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

When machine learning models are trained on synthetic data and then deployed on real data, there is often a performance drop due to the distribution shift between synthetic and real data. In this paper, we introduce a new ensemble strategy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoyuan Sun , Navid Azizan , Akash Srivastava , Hao Wang

Differential privacy (DP) is widely employed in machine learning to protect confidential or sensitive training data from being revealed. As data owners gain greater control over their data due to personal data ownership, they are more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Xiao Tian , Jue Fan , Rachael Hwee Ling Sim , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

Deep learning techniques based on neural networks have shown significant success in a wide range of AI tasks. Large-scale training datasets are one of the critical factors for their success. However, when the training datasets are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Lei Yu , Ling Liu , Calton Pu , Mehmet Emre Gursoy , Stacey Truex

Sharing of tabular data containing valuable but private information is limited due to legal and ethical issues. Synthetic data could be an alternative solution to this sharing problem, as it is artificially generated by machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Fatima J. Sarmin , Atiquer R. Rahman , Christopher J. Henry , Noman Mohammed

Differential privacy (DP) is a gold-standard concept of measuring and guaranteeing privacy in data analysis. It is well-known that the cost of adding DP to deep learning model is its accuracy. However, it remains unclear how it affects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Nurislam Tursynbek , Aleksandr Petiushko , Ivan Oseledets