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We study synthetic data release for answering multiple linear queries over a set of database tables in a differentially private way. Two special cases have been considered in the literature: how to release a synthetic dataset for answering…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-06-28 Badih Ghazi , Xiao Hu , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi

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…

Distributed data analysis without revealing the individual data has recently attracted significant attention in several applications. A collaborative data analysis through sharing dimensionality reduced representations of data has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Akira Imakura , Anna Bogdanova , Takaya Yamazoe , Kazumasa Omote , Tetsuya Sakurai

Synthetic tabular data generation has emerged as a promising method to address limited data availability and privacy concerns. With the sharp increase in the performance of large language models in recent years, researchers have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Reilly Cannon , Nicolette M. Laird , Caesar Vazquez , Andy Lin , Amy Wagler , Tony Chiang

The generation of synthetic data is a state-of-the-art approach to leverage when access to real data is limited or privacy regulations limit the usability of sensitive data. A fair amount of research has been conducted on synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Wilhelm Ågren , Victorio Úbeda Sosa

Tabular data synthesis is crucial for addressing privacy and security concerns in industries reliant on tabular data. While recent advancements adopt large language models (LLMs) for realistic tabular data generation, their long training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Lydia Chen

Synthetic data has been considered a better privacy-preserving alternative to traditionally sanitized data across various applications. However, a recent article challenges this notion, stating that synthetic data does not provide a better…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Fatima Jahan Sarmin , Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Yang Wang , Noman Mohammed

Differential privacy has become the dominant standard in the research community for strong privacy protection. There has been a flood of research into query answering algorithms that meet this standard. Algorithms are becoming increasingly…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau , Yan Chen , Dan Zhang

Realistic synthetic tabular data generation encounters significant challenges in preserving privacy, especially when dealing with sensitive information in domains like finance and healthcare. In this paper, we introduce \textit{Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting between traditional resampling techniques and modern deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa , Ashfaq Ali Shafin , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

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

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate artificial images that retain the properties of sensitive images while protecting the privacy of individual images within the dataset. Despite recent advancements, we find that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chen Gong , Kecen Li , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang

Protecting user data privacy can be achieved via many methods, from statistical transformations to generative models. However, all of them have critical drawbacks. For example, creating a transformed data set using traditional techniques is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Tânia Carvalho , Nuno Moniz , Luís Antunes , Nitesh Chawla

How to synthesize a dataset while achieving differential privacy for AI model training is a meaningful but challenging problem. To address this problem, state-of-the-art methods first select original private dataset's multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mingxuan Jia , Wen Huang , Weixin Zhao , Xingyi Wang , Jian Peng , Zhishuo Zhang

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

The synthpop package for R https://www.synthpop.org.uk provides tools to allow data custodians to create synthetic versions of confidential microdata that can be distributed with fewer restrictions than the original. The synthesis can be…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-16 Gillian M Raab , Beata Nowok , Chris Dibben

High quality data is needed to unlock the full potential of AI for end users. However finding new sources of such data is getting harder: most publicly-available human generated data will soon have been used. Additionally, publicly…

This explainer document aims to provide an overview of the current state of the rapidly expanding work on synthetic data technologies, with a particular focus on privacy. The article is intended for a non-technical audience, though some…

The goal of privacy metrics is to measure the degree of privacy enjoyed by users in a system and the amount of protection offered by privacy-enhancing technologies. In this way, privacy metrics contribute to improving user privacy in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Isabel Wagner , David Eckhoff

Analytical SQL queries are essential for extracting insights from relational databases but concurrently introduce significant privacy risks by potentially exposing sensitive information. To mitigate these risks, numerous query sanitization…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Loïs Ecoffet , Veronika Rehn-Sonigo , Jean-François Couchot , Catuscia Palamidessi