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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

Privacy-preserving data analysis is emerging as a challenging problem with far-reaching impact. In particular, synthetic data are a promising concept toward solving the aporetic conflict between data privacy and data sharing. Yet, it is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Synthetic data has been widely applied in the real world recently. One typical example is the creation of synthetic data for privacy concerned datasets. In this scenario, synthetic data substitute the real data which contains the privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Ling , Tim Menzies , Christopher Hazard , Jack Shu , Jacob Beel

The generation of privacy-preserving synthetic datasets is a promising avenue for overcoming data scarcity in medical AI research. Post-hoc privacy filtering techniques, designed to remove samples containing personally identifiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Adil Koeken , Alexander Ziller , Moritz Knolle , Daniel Rueckert

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

Introduction: The amount of data generated by original research is growing exponentially. Publicly releasing them is recommended to comply with the Open Science principles. However, data collected from human participants cannot be released…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Rémy Chapelle , Bruno Falissard

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…

With the growing volume of data in society, the need for privacy protection in data analysis also rises. In particular, private selection tasks, wherein the most important information is retrieved under differential privacy are emphasized…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Akito Yamamoto , Tetsuo Shibuya

Power consumption data is very useful as it allows to optimize power grids, detect anomalies and prevent failures, on top of being useful for diverse research purposes. However, the use of power consumption data raises significant privacy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-29 Ganesh Del Grosso , Georg Pichler , Pablo Piantanida

This paper aims at answering the following two questions in privacy-preserving data analysis and publishing: What formal privacy guarantee (if any) does $k$-anonymization provide? How to benefit from the adversary's uncertainty about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Ninghui Li , Wahbeh Qardaji , Dong Su

In this paper we present the Sampling Privacy mechanism for privately releasing personal data. Sampling Privacy is a sampling based privacy mechanism that satisfies differential privacy.

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Josh Joy , Mario Gerla

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

Personal data collected at scale promises to improve decision-making and accelerate innovation. However, sharing and using such data raises serious privacy concerns. A promising solution is to produce synthetic data, artificial records to…

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

Data for good implies unfettered access to data. But data owners must be conservative about how, when, and why they share data or risk violating the trust of the people they aim to help, losing their funding, or breaking the law. Data…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich , Haoyue Ping , Bernease Herman , Matt Gee

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

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…

Many ground-breaking advancements in machine learning can be attributed to the availability of a large volume of rich data. Unfortunately, many large-scale datasets are highly sensitive, such as healthcare data, and are not widely available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 James Jordon , Alan Wilson , Mihaela van der Schaar

The protection of private information is of vital importance in data-driven research, business, and government. The conflict between privacy and utility has triggered intensive research in the computer science and statistics communities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Graph data is used in a wide range of applications, while analyzing graph data without protection is prone to privacy breach risks. To mitigate the privacy risks, we resort to the standard technique of differential privacy to publish a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Quan Yuan , Zhikun Zhang , Linkang Du , Min Chen , Peng Cheng , Mingyang Sun