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Data on businesses collected by statistical agencies are challenging to protect. Many businesses have unique characteristics, and distributions of employment, sales, and profits are highly skewed. Attackers wishing to conduct identification…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-11-13 M. Jahangir Alam , Benoit Dostie , Jörg Drechsler , Lars Vilhuber

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

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

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

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

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

Training data is fundamental to the success of modern machine learning models, yet in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, the use of real-world training data is severely constrained by concerns over privacy leakage. A promising solution…

In the past decade analysis of big data has proven to be extremely valuable in many contexts. Local Differential Privacy (LDP) is a state-of-the-art approach which allows statistical computations while protecting each individual user's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Björn Bebensee

Local differential privacy (LDP) is a recently proposed privacy standard for collecting and analyzing data, which has been used, e.g., in the Chrome browser, iOS and macOS. In LDP, each user perturbs her information locally, and only sends…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Ning Wang , Xiaokui Xiao , Yin Yang , Jun Zhao , Siu Cheung Hui , Hyejin Shin , Junbum Shin , Ge Yu

The collection of individuals' data has become commonplace in many industries. Local differential privacy (LDP) offers a rigorous approach to preserving privacy whereby the individual privatises their data locally, allowing only their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Alex Mansbridge , Gregory Barbour , Davide Piras , Michael Murray , Christopher Frye , Ilya Feige , David Barber

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 synthetic data is released, some individuals are harder to protect than others. A patient with a rare disease combination or a transaction with unusual characteristics stands out from the crowd. Differential privacy provides worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amir Asiaee , Chao Yan , Zachary B. Abrams , Bradley A. Malin

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…

This paper introduces two methods of creating differentially private (DP) synthetic data that are now incorporated into the \textit{synthpop} package for \textbf{R}. Both are suitable for synthesising categorical data, or numeric data…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-28 Gillian M Raab

Learning with relational and network-structured data is increasingly vital in sensitive domains where protecting the privacy of individual entities is paramount. Differential Privacy (DP) offers a principled approach for quantifying privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yinan Huang , Haoteng Yin , Eli Chien , Rongzhe Wei , Pan Li

In this work, we introduce a differentially private method for generating synthetic data from vertically partitioned data, \emph{i.e.}, where data of the same individuals is distributed across multiple data holders or parties. We present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Razane Tajeddine , Joonas Jälkö , Samuel Kaski , Antti Honkela

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

Differential Privacy (DP) formalizes privacy in mathematical terms and provides a robust concept for privacy protection. DIfferentially Private Data Synthesis (DIPS) techniques produce and release synthetic individual-level data in the DP…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-22 Claire McKay Bowen , Fang Liu , Binyue Su

Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this setting is to release noisy responses to a predefined set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Aadyaa Maddi , Swadhin Routray , Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti

With the development of big data and machine learning, privacy concerns have become increasingly critical, especially when handling heterogeneous datasets containing sensitive personal information. Differential privacy provides a rigorous…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-08 Ziliang Shen , Caixing Wang , Shaoli Wang , Yibo Yan