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Synthetic tabular data are increasingly being used to replace real data, serving as an effective solution that simultaneously protects privacy and addresses data scarcity. However, in addition to preserving global statistical properties,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yunbo Long , Liming Xu , Alexandra Brintrup

We explore the privacy-utility tradeoff of synthetic data generation schemes on tabular financial datasets, a domain characterized by high regulatory risk and severe class imbalance. We consider representative tabular data generators,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Michael Zuo , Inwon Kang , Stacy Patterson , Oshani Seneviratne

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

In distributed computing environments, collaborative machine learning enables multiple clients to train a global model collaboratively. To preserve privacy in such settings, a common technique is to utilize frequent updates and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Chia-Yuan Wu , Frank E. Curtis , Daniel P. Robinson

Deep learning methods have impacted almost every research field, demonstrating notable successes in medical imaging tasks such as denoising and super-resolution. However, the prerequisite for deep learning is data at scale, but data sharing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Yongyi Shi , Wenjun Xia , Chuang Niu , Christopher Wiedeman , Ge Wang

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial topic for financial institutions, driven by multiple factors, such as privacy protection and data augmentation. Many algorithms have been proposed for synthetic data generation but reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Fadi Hamad , Saheed Obitayo , Vamsi K. Potluru

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their knowledge and generative capabilities, leading to a surge of interest in leveraging LLMs for high-quality data synthesis. However, synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Ying Zhou , Xinyao Wang , Yulei Niu , Yaojie Shen , Lexin Tang , Fan Chen , Ben He , Le Sun , Longyin Wen

Privacy, data quality, and data sharing concerns pose a key limitation for tabular data applications. While generating synthetic data resembling the original distribution addresses some of these issues, most applications would benefit from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mark Vero , Mislav Balunović , Martin Vechev

The sharing of microdata, such as fund holdings and derivative instruments, by regulatory institutions presents a unique challenge due to strict data confidentiality and privacy regulations. These challenges often hinder the ability of both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

The development of robust clinical decision support systems is frequently impeded by the scarcity of high-fidelity, privacy-preserving biomedical data. While Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising avenue for synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Arshia Ilaty , Hossein Shirazi , Amir Rahmani , Hajar Homayouni

Recent advances in tabular data generation have greatly enhanced synthetic data quality. However, extending diffusion models to tabular data is challenging due to the intricately varied distributions and a blend of data types of tabular…

As privacy regulations become more stringent and access to real-world data becomes increasingly constrained, synthetic data generation has emerged as a vital solution, especially for tabular datasets, which are central to domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Raju Challagundla , Mohsen Dorodchi , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee

Synthetic data generation, a cornerstone of Generative Artificial Intelligence, promotes a paradigm shift in data science by addressing data scarcity and privacy while enabling unprecedented performance. As synthetic data becomes more…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Xiaotong Shen , Yifei Liu , Rex Shen

This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically outline the importance of synthetic data generation in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Conor Hassan , Robert Salomone , Kerrie Mengersen

Synthetic data generation, leveraging generative machine learning techniques, offers a promising approach to mitigating privacy concerns associated with real-world data usage. Synthetic data closely resembles real-world data while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Weijie Niu , Alberto Huertas Celdran , Karoline Siarsky , Burkhard Stiller

Training data has been proven to be one of the most critical components in training generative AI. However, obtaining high-quality data remains challenging, with data privacy issues presenting a significant hurdle. To address the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Jia-Chen Zhang , Zheng Zhou , Yu-Jie Xiong , Chun-Ming Xia , Fei Dai

Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leonhard Hennicke , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese , Jan Mathias Koehler , Lukas Schott

Face recognition models are trained on large-scale datasets, which have privacy and ethical concerns. Lately, the use of synthetic data to complement or replace genuine data for the training of face recognition models has been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Geissbühler , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

We introduce DP-FinDiff, a differentially private diffusion framework for synthesizing mixed-type tabular data. DP-FinDiff employs embedding-based representations for categorical features, reducing encoding overhead and scaling to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Synthetic data is often perceived as a silver-bullet solution to data anonymization and privacy-preserving data publishing. Drawn from generative models like diffusion models, synthetic data is expected to preserve the statistical…