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Since their inception Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been popular generative models across images, audio, video, and tabular data. In this paper we study whether given access to a trained GAN, as well as fresh samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Lukman Olagoke , Salil Vadhan , Seth Neel

Privacy is an important concern for our society where sharing data with partners or releasing data to the public is a frequent occurrence. Some of the techniques that are being used to achieve privacy are to remove identifiers, alter…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Noseong Park , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Kshitij Gorde , Sushil Jajodia , Hongkyu Park , Youngmin Kim

Tabular data typically contains private and important information; thus, precautions must be taken before they are shared with others. Although several methods (e.g., differential privacy and k-anonymity) have been proposed to prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jihyeon Hyeong , Jayoung Kim , Noseong Park , Sushil Jajodia

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

Deep generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), synthesize diverse high-fidelity data samples by estimating the underlying distribution of high dimensional data. Despite their success, GANs may disclose private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Parisa Hassanzadeh , Robert E. Tillman

Generative models are increasingly used to produce privacy-preserving synthetic data as a safe alternative to sharing sensitive training datasets. However, we demonstrate that such synthetic releases can still leak information about the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 S. M. Mustaqim , Anantaa Kotal , Paul H. Yi

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-synthesized table publishing lets people privately learn insights without access to the private table. However, existing studies on Membership Inference (MI) Attacks show promising results on disclosing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Aoting Hu , Renjie Xie , Zhigang Lu , Aiqun Hu , Minhui Xue

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have made releasing of synthetic images a viable approach to share data without releasing the original dataset. It has been shown that such synthetic data can be used for a variety of downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Sumit Mukherjee , Yixi Xu , Anusua Trivedi , Juan Lavista Ferres

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used for generating synthetic data for cases where there is a limited size real-world dataset or when data holders are unwilling to share their data samples. Recent works showed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammadhadi Shateri , Francisco Messina , Fabrice Labeau , Pablo Piantanida

In this paper, we aim to understand the generalization properties of generative adversarial networks (GANs) from a new perspective of privacy protection. Theoretically, we prove that a differentially private learning algorithm used for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Bingzhe Wu , Shiwan Zhao , ChaoChao Chen , Haoyang Xu , Li Wang , Xiaolu Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Jun Zhou

While machine learning (ML) has made tremendous progress during the past decade, recent research has shown that ML models are vulnerable to various security and privacy attacks. So far, most of the attacks in this field focus on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Junhao Zhou , Yufei Chen , Chao Shen , Yang Zhang

This paper studies model-inversion attacks, in which the access to a model is abused to infer information about the training data. Since its first introduction, such attacks have raised serious concerns given that training data usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yuheng Zhang , Ruoxi Jia , Hengzhi Pei , Wenxiao Wang , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Machine learning tools are becoming increasingly powerful and widely used. Unfortunately membership attacks, which seek to uncover information from data sets used in machine learning, have the potential to limit data sharing. In this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Dennis Conway , Loic Simon , Alexis Lechervy , Frederic Jurie

Machine learning (ML) models used in medical imaging diagnostics can be vulnerable to a variety of privacy attacks, including membership inference attacks, that lead to violations of regulations governing the use of medical data and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-23 William Paul , Yinzhi Cao , Miaomiao Zhang , Phil Burlina

Synthetic tabular data is essential for machine learning workflows, especially for expanding small or imbalanced datasets and enabling privacy-preserving data sharing. However, state-of-the-art generative models (GANs, VAEs, diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jessup Byun , Xiaofeng Lin , Joshua Ward , Guang Cheng

The privacy implications of generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a topic of great interest, leading to several recent algorithms for training GANs with privacy guarantees. By drawing connections to the generalization properties of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Zinan Lin , Vyas Sekar , Giulia Fanti

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

Recent advances in synthetic data generation (SDG) have been hailed as a solution to the difficult problem of sharing sensitive data while protecting privacy. SDG aims to learn statistical properties of real data in order to generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Andrea Gadotti , Luc Rocher

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a potentially powerful privacy-preserving machine learning methodology, since it avoids exchanging data between participants, but instead exchanges model parameters. FL has traditionally been applied…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Han Wu , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Y. Chen , Aad van Moorsel
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