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Preservation of private user data is of paramount importance for high Quality of Experience (QoE) and acceptability, particularly with services treating sensitive data, such as IT-based health services. Whereas anonymization techniques were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Navid Ashrafi , Vera Schmitt , Robert P. Spang , Sebastian Möller , Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

Generative AI offers transformative potential for high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, yet privacy and regulatory barriers hinder the use of real-world data. To address this, differentially private synthetic data generation…

Motivated by privacy concerns in long-term longitudinal studies in medical and social science research, we study the problem of continually releasing differentially private synthetic data from longitudinal data collections. We introduce a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Mark Bun , Marco Gaboardi , Marcel Neunhoeffer , Wanrong Zhang

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) are becoming increasingly prominent in the creation of synthetic data for downstream applications. Existing literature, however, primarily focuses on basic benchmarking datasets and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dingfan Chen , Marie Oestreich , Tejumade Afonja , Raouf Kerkouche , Matthias Becker , Mario Fritz

Synthetic data has gained significant momentum thanks to sophisticated machine learning tools that enable the synthesis of high-dimensional datasets. However, many generation techniques do not give the data controller control over what…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Florimond Houssiau , Samuel N. Cohen , Lukasz Szpruch , Owen Daniel , Michaela G. Lawrence , Robin Mitra , Henry Wilde , Callum Mole

We address the challenge of ensuring differential privacy (DP) guarantees in training deep retrieval systems. Training these systems often involves the use of contrastive-style losses, which are typically non-per-example decomposable,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Aldo Gael Carranza , Rezsa Farahani , Natalia Ponomareva , Alex Kurakin , Matthew Jagielski , Milad Nasr

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation (PP-SDG) has emerged to produce synthetic datasets from personal data while maintaining privacy and utility. Differential privacy (DP) is the property of a PP-SDG mechanism that establishes how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Frederik Marinus Trudslev , Matteo Lissandrini , Juan Manuel Rodriguez , Martin Bøgsted , Daniele Dell'Aglio

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

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

The integration of Differential Privacy (DP) with diffusion models (DMs) presents a promising yet challenging frontier, particularly due to the substantial memorization capabilities of DMs that pose significant privacy risks. Differential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yu-Lin Tsai , Yizhe Li , Zekai Chen , Po-Yu Chen , Chia-Mu Yu , Xuebin Ren , Francois Buet-Golfouse

Recent advances in generating synthetic data that allow to add principled ways of protecting privacy -- such as Differential Privacy -- are a crucial step in sharing statistical information in a privacy preserving way. But while the focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-04 Christian Arnold , Marcel Neunhoeffer

High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xuemei Jia , Jiawei Du , Hui Wei , Jun Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zheng Wang

Synthetic tabular data generation with differential privacy is a crucial problem to enable data sharing with formal privacy. Despite a rich history of methodological research and development, developing differentially private tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Toan V. Tran , Li Xiong

We study private prediction where differential privacy is achieved by adding noise to the outputs of a non-private model. Existing methods rely on noise proportional to the global sensitivity of the model, often resulting in sub-optimal…

Privacy concerns have led to a surge in the creation of synthetic datasets, with diffusion models emerging as a promising avenue. Although prior studies have performed empirical evaluations on these models, there has been a gap in providing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Rongzhe Wei , Eleonora Kreačić , Haoyu Wang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Vamsi K. Potluru , Pan Li

Process data with confidential information cannot be shared directly in public, which hinders the research in process data mining and analytics. Data encryption methods have been studied to protect the data, but they still may be decrypted,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Keyi Li , Sen Yang , Travis M. Sullivan , Randall S. Burd , Ivan Marsic

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been integrated into all aspects of our lives and the privacy of personal data has attracted more and more attention. Since the generation of the model needs to extract the effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ruikang Yang , Jianfeng Ma , Yinbin Miao , Xindi Ma

Despite several works that succeed in generating synthetic data with differential privacy (DP) guarantees, they are inadequate for generating high-quality synthetic data when the input data has missing values. In this work, we formalize the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shubhankar Mohapatra , Jianqiao Zong , Florian Kerschbaum , Xi He

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

Many forms of sensitive data, such as web traffic, mobility data, or hospital occupancy, are inherently sequential. The standard method for training machine learning models while ensuring privacy for units of sensitive information, such as…