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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…

The dissemination of synthetic data can be an effective means of making information from sensitive data publicly available while reducing the risk of disclosure associated with releasing the sensitive data directly. While mechanisms exist…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-23 Harrison Quick

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

Differentially private synthetic data generation offers a recent solution to release analytically useful data while preserving the privacy of individuals in the data. In order to utilize these algorithms for public policy decisions,…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-13 Claire McKay Bowen , Joshua Snoke

Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation (DP-SDG) is a key enabler of private and secure tabular-data sharing, producing artificial data that carries through the underlying statistical properties of the input data. This typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock

A common goal of privacy research is to release synthetic data that satisfies a formal privacy guarantee and can be used by an analyst in place of the original data. To achieve reasonable accuracy, a synthetic data set must be tuned to…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Chao Li , Gerome Miklau

Machine learning practitioners frequently seek to leverage the most informative available data, without violating the data owner's privacy, when building predictive models. Differentially private data synthesis protects personal details…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lucas Rosenblatt , Xiaoyan Liu , Samira Pouyanfar , Eduardo de Leon , Anuj Desai , Joshua Allen

We propose, implement, and evaluate a new algorithm for releasing answers to very large numbers of statistical queries like $k$-way marginals, subject to differential privacy. Our algorithm makes adaptive use of a continuous relaxation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Sergul Aydore , William Brown , Michael Kearns , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Luca Melis , Aaron Roth , Ankit Siva

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…

Differential privacy allows quantifying privacy loss resulting from accessing sensitive personal data. Repeated accesses to underlying data incur increasing loss. Releasing data as privacy-preserving synthetic data would avoid this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Joonas Jälkö , Eemil Lagerspetz , Jari Haukka , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

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

The US Decennial Census provides valuable data for both research and policy purposes. Census data are subject to a variety of disclosure avoidance techniques prior to release in order to preserve respondent confidentiality. While many are…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Cynthia Dwork , Kristjan Greenewald , Manish Raghavan

Diferentially private (DP) synthetic datasets are a powerful approach for training machine learning models while respecting the privacy of individual data providers. The effect of DP on the fairness of the resulting trained models is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-21 Mayana Pereira , Meghana Kshirsagar , Sumit Mukherjee , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

Data privacy is a core tenet of responsible computing, and in the United States, differential privacy (DP) is the dominant technical operationalization of privacy-preserving data analysis. With this study, we qualitatively examine one class…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lucas Rosenblatt , Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich

Differential privacy provides a strong form of privacy and allows preserving most of the original characteristics of the dataset. Utilizing these benefits requires one to design specific differentially private data analysis algorithms. In…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Matej Mihelčić , Pauli Miettinen

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

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

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

Programmatically generated synthetic data has been used in differential private training for classification to enhance performance without privacy leakage. However, as the synthetic data is generated from a random process, the distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yujin Choi , Jinseong Park , Junyoung Byun , Jaewook Lee

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