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Protecting user data privacy can be achieved via many methods, from statistical transformations to generative models. However, all of them have critical drawbacks. For example, creating a transformed data set using traditional techniques is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Luís Antunes , Nitesh Chawla

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

In this paper, we propose generating artificial data that retain statistical properties of real data as the means of providing privacy with respect to the original dataset. We use generative adversarial network to draw privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

The availability of rich and vast data sources has greatly advanced machine learning applications in various domains. However, data with privacy concerns comes with stringent regulations that frequently prohibited data access and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

The difficulty of anonymizing text data hinders the development and deployment of NLP in high-stakes domains that involve private data, such as healthcare and social services. Poorly anonymized sensitive data cannot be easily shared with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Krithika Ramesh , Nupoor Gandhi , Pulkit Madaan , Lisa Bauer , Charith Peris , Anjalie Field

To protect the privacy of individuals whose data is being shared, it is of high importance to develop methods allowing researchers and companies to release textual data while providing formal privacy guarantees to its originators. In the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Justus Mattern , Zhijing Jin , Benjamin Weggenmann , Bernhard Schoelkopf , Mrinmaya Sachan

Creation of a synthetic dataset that faithfully represents the data distribution and simultaneously preserves privacy is a major research challenge. Many space partitioning based approaches have emerged in recent years for answering…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Eleonora Kreačić , Navid Nouri , Vamsi K. Potluru , Tucker Balch , Manuela Veloso

Synthetic data generation is a key technique in modern artificial intelligence, addressing data scarcity, privacy constraints, and the need for diverse datasets in training robust models. In this work, we propose a method for generating…

Creation of synthetic data models has represented a significant advancement across diverse scientific fields, but this technology also brings important privacy considerations for users. This work focuses on enhancing a non-parametric…

The availability of genomic data is essential to progress in biomedical research, personalized medicine, etc. However, its extreme sensitivity makes it problematic, if not outright impossible, to publish or share it. As a result, several…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-19 Bristena Oprisanu , Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

As synthetic data becomes increasingly popular in machine learning tasks, numerous methods--without formal differential privacy guarantees--use synthetic data for training. These methods often claim, either explicitly or implicitly, to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yunpeng Zhao , Jie Zhang

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

Open data plays a fundamental role in the 21th century by stimulating economic growth and by enabling more transparent and inclusive societies. However, it is always difficult to create new high-quality datasets with the required privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Lorenzo Frigerio , Anderson Santana de Oliveira , Laurent Gomez , Patrick Duverger

Sharing medical data for machine learning model training purposes is often impossible due to the risk of disclosing identifying information about individual patients. Synthetic data produced by generative artificial intelligence (genAI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Rustam Zhumagambetov , Niklas Giesa , Sebastian D. Boie , Stefan Haufe

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

Increasing interest in privacy-preserving machine learning has led to new and evolved approaches for generating private synthetic data from undisclosed real data. However, mechanisms of privacy preservation can significantly reduce the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-23 Sahra Ghalebikesabi , Harrison Wilde , Jack Jewson , Arnaud Doucet , Sebastian Vollmer , Chris Holmes

While power systems research relies on the availability of real-world network datasets, data owners (e.g., system operators) are hesitant to share data due to security and privacy risks. To control these risks, we develop privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vladimir Dvorkin , Audun Botterud

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

While generative models have proved successful in many domains, they may pose a privacy leakage risk in practical deployment. To address this issue, differentially private generative model learning has emerged as a solution to train private…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Bochao Liu , Pengju Wang , Weijia Guo , Yong Li , Liansheng Zhuang , Weiping Wang , Shiming Ge

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen