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Existing differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation mechanisms typically assume a single-source table. In practice, data is often distributed across multiple tables with relationships across tables. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kaveh Alimohammadi , Hao Wang , Ojas Gulati , Akash Srivastava , Navid Azizan

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

While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) limit its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as alternative to enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Synthetic data generation is gaining traction as a privacy enhancing technology (PET). When properly generated, synthetic data preserve the analytic utility of real data while avoiding the retention of information that would allow the…

Deep neural networks have become prevalent in human analysis, boosting the performance of applications, such as biometric recognition, action recognition, as well as person re-identification. However, the performance of such networks scales…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Indu Joshi , Marcel Grimmer , Christian Rathgeb , Christoph Busch , Francois Bremond , Antitza Dantcheva

The sharing of large-scale transportation data is beneficial for transportation planning and policymaking. However, it also raises significant security and privacy concerns, as the data may include identifiable personal information, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chengen Wang , Alvaro Cardenas , Gurcan Comert , Murat Kantarcioglu

Synthetic data generation has recently gained widespread attention as a more reliable alternative to traditional data anonymization. The involved methods are originally developed for image synthesis. Hence, their application to the…

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy

While synthetic tabular data generation using Deep Generative Models (DGMs) offers a compelling solution to data scarcity and privacy concerns, their effectiveness relies on the availability of substantial training data, often lacking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Patricia A. Apellániz , Ana Jiménez , Borja Arroyo Galende , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

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

Privacy, data quality, and data sharing concerns pose a key limitation for tabular data applications. While generating synthetic data resembling the original distribution addresses some of these issues, most applications would benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mark Vero , Mislav Balunović , Martin Vechev

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

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

Recent advances in generative models facilitate the creation of synthetic data to be made available for research in privacy-sensitive contexts. However, the analysis of synthetic data raises a unique set of methodological challenges. In…

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

The generation of synthetic tabular data that preserves differential privacy is a problem of growing importance. While traditional marginal-based methods have achieved impressive results, recent work has shown that deep learning-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Rodrigo Castellon , Achintya Gopal , Brian Bloniarz , David Rosenberg

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data sets are a solution for sharing data while preserving the privacy of individual data providers. Understanding the effects of utilizing DP synthetic data in end-to-end machine learning pipelines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Mayana Pereira , Meghana Kshirsagar , Sumit Mukherjee , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres , Rafael de Sousa

Techniques to deliver privacy-preserving synthetic datasets take a sensitive dataset as input and produce a similar dataset as output while maintaining differential privacy. These approaches have the potential to improve data sharing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Access to genomic data is highly regulated due to its sensitive nature. While safeguards are essential, cumbersome data access processes pose a significant barrier to the development of AI methods for genomics. Synthetic data generation can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daniil Filienko , Martine De Cock , Sikha Pentyala

Generative modeling has been used frequently in synthetic data generation. Fairness and privacy are two big concerns for synthetic data. Although Recent GAN [\cite{goodfellow2014generative}] based methods show good results in preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Weijie Xu , Jinjin Zhao , Francis Iannacci , Bo Wang