English
Related papers

Related papers: Joint Selection: Adaptively Incorporating Public I…

200 papers

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

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

This paper concerns with the production of synthetic phasor measurement unit (PMU) data for research and education purposes. Due to the confidentiality of real PMU data and no public access to the real power systems infrastructure…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-11 Xiangtian Zheng , Bin Wang , Le Xie

With the advent of generative modeling techniques, synthetic data and its use has penetrated across various domains from unstructured data such as image, text to structured dataset modeling healthcare outcome, risk decisioning in financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Aman Gupta , Deepak Bhatt , Anubha Pandey

Generative models are used in a wide range of applications building on large amounts of contextually rich information. Due to possible privacy violations of the individuals whose data is used to train these models, however, publishing or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-16 Gergely Acs , Luca Melis , Claude Castelluccia , Emiliano De Cristofaro

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…

Privacy-preserving releasing of complex data (e.g., image, text, audio) represents a long-standing challenge for the data mining research community. Due to rich semantics of the data and lack of a priori knowledge about the analysis task,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Xinyang Zhang , Shouling Ji , Ting Wang

We propose a new framework for generating cross-sectional synthetic datasets via disjoint generative models. In this paradigm, a dataset is partitioned into disjoint subsets that are supplied to separate instances of generative models. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Anton Danholt Lautrup , Muhammad Rajabinasab , Tobias Hyrup , Arthur Zimek , Peter Schneider-Kamp

Recommender systems are essential for enhancing user experiences by suggesting items based on individual preferences. However, these systems frequently face the challenge of data imbalance, characterized by a predominance of negative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Fatih Cihan Taskin , Ilknur Akcay , Muhammed Pesen , Said Aldemir , Ipek Iraz Esin , Furkan Durmus

In the social sciences, small- to medium-scale datasets are common, and linear regression is canonical. In privacy-aware settings, much work has focused on differentially private (DP) linear regression, but mostly on point estimation with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shurong Lin , Aleksandra Slavković , Deekshith Reddy Bhoomireddy

Dataset distillation (DD) compresses large datasets into smaller ones while preserving the performance of models trained on them. Although DD is often assumed to enhance data privacy by aggregating over individual examples, recent studies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuo Shi , Jinghuai Zhang , Shijie Jiang , Chunyi Zhou , Yuyuan Li , Mengying Zhu , Yangyang Wu , Tianyu Du

This gem describes a standard method for generating synthetic spatial data that can be used in benchmarking and scalability tests. The goal is to improve the reproducibility and increase the trust in experiments on synthetic data by using…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Tin Vu , Sara Migliorini , Ahmed Eldawy , Alberto Belussi

Consider a setting where multiple parties holding sensitive data aim to collaboratively learn population level statistics, but pooling the sensitive data sets is not possible. We propose a framework in which each party shares a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Lukas Prediger , Joonas Jälkö , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

Synthetic data generators, when trained using privacy-preserving techniques like differential privacy, promise to produce synthetic data with formal privacy guarantees, facilitating the sharing of sensitive data. However, it is crucial to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Flavio Hafner , Chang Sun

We propose Joint Moment Estimation (JME), a method for continually and privately estimating both the first and second moments of data with reduced noise compared to naive approaches. JME uses the matrix mechanism and a joint sensitivity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Nikita P. Kalinin , Jalaj Upadhyay , Christoph H. Lampert

The emergence of generative AI models has dramatically expanded the availability and use of synthetic data across scientific, industrial, and policy domains. While these developments open new possibilities for data analysis, they also raise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-06 Ahmad Abdel-Azim , Ruoyu Wang , Xihong Lin

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

The LLM-as-a-judge paradigm enables flexible, user-defined evaluation, but its effectiveness is often limited by the scarcity of diverse, representative data for refining criteria. We present a tool that integrates synthetic data generation…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Hyo Jin Do , Zahra Ashktorab , Jasmina Gajcin , Erik Miehling , Martín Santillán Cooper , Qian Pan , Elizabeth M. Daly , Werner Geyer

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

In this paper, we argue that synthetic data produced by Differentially Private generative models can be sufficiently anonymized and, therefore, anonymous data and regulatory compliant.

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Georgi Ganev