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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…

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This paper demonstrates the potential of statistical disclosure control for protecting the data used to train recommender systems. Specifically, we use a synthetic data generation approach to hide specific information in the user-item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Manel Slokom , Martha Larson , Alan Hanjalic

Sharing of tabular data containing valuable but private information is limited due to legal and ethical issues. Synthetic data could be an alternative solution to this sharing problem, as it is artificially generated by machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Fatima J. Sarmin , Atiquer R. Rahman , Christopher J. Henry , Noman Mohammed

In today's business landscape, organizations need to find the right balance between using their customers' data ethically to power AI solutions and being compliant regarding data privacy and data usage regulations. In this paper, we discuss…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Aditi Godbole

Smart cities rely on dynamic and real-time data to enable smart urban applications such as intelligent transport and epidemics detection. However, the streaming of big data from IoT devices, especially from mobile platforms like pedestrians…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Joshua Joy , Ciaran McGoldrick , Mario Gerla

Future autonomous vehicles will generate, collect, aggregate and consume significant volumes of data as key gateway devices in emerging Internet of Things scenarios. While vehicles are widely accepted as one of the most challenging mobility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-23 Josh Joy , Dylan Gray , Ciaran McGoldrick , Mario Gerla

Recent surge in the number of Electric Vehicles have created a need to develop inexpensive energy-dense Battery Storage Systems. Many countries across the planet have put in place concrete measures to reduce and subsequently limit the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Janamejaya Channegowda , Vageesh Maiya , Chaitanya Lingaraj

Preservation of private user data is of paramount importance for high Quality of Experience (QoE) and acceptability, particularly with services treating sensitive data, such as IT-based health services. Whereas anonymization techniques were…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Navid Ashrafi , Vera Schmitt , Robert P. Spang , Sebastian Möller , Jan-Niklas Voigt-Antons

Synthetic data is often positioned as a solution to replace sensitive fixed-size datasets with a source of unlimited matching data, freed from privacy concerns. There has been much progress in synthetic data generation over the last decade,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Graham Cormode , Samuel Maddock , Enayat Ullah , Shripad Gade

Due to confidentiality issues, it can be difficult to access or share interesting datasets for methodological development in actuarial science, or other fields where personal data are important. We show how to design three different types…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-08-17 Marie-Pier Cote , Brian Hartman , Olivier Mercier , Joshua Meyers , Jared Cummings , Elijah Harmon

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare, but it requires access to health data. Synthetic data that is generated through machine learning models trained on real data, offers a way to share data while…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Anne Kjersti C. Befring , Severin Elvatun , Jan Franz Nygaard

Machine learning has the potential to assist many communities in using the large datasets that are becoming more and more available. Unfortunately, much of that potential is not being realized because it would require sharing data in a way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-02 James Jordon , Jinsung Yoon , Mihaela van der Schaar

Despite the evident practical importance of license plate recognition (LPR), corresponding research is limited by the volume of publicly available datasets due to privacy regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mariia Shpir , Nadiya Shvai , Amir Nakib

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

Data is the fuel of data science and machine learning techniques for smart grid applications, similar to many other fields. However, the availability of data can be an issue due to privacy concerns, data size, data quality, and so on. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Mina Razghandi , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Damla Turgut

The widespread adoption of dynamic Time-of-Use (dToU) electricity tariffs requires accurately identifying households that would benefit from such pricing structures. However, the use of real consumption data poses serious privacy concerns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Andre Catarino , Rui Melo , Rui Abreu , Luis Cruz

Synthetic data are becoming a critical tool for building artificially intelligent systems. Simulators provide a way of generating data systematically and at scale. These data can then be used either exclusively, or in conjunction with real…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Daniel McDuff , Theodore Curran , Achuta Kadambi

How can we release a massive volume of sensitive data while mitigating privacy risks? Privacy-preserving data synthesis enables the data holder to outsource analytical tasks to an untrusted third party. The state-of-the-art approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shun Takagi , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

We challenge the perceived consensus that the application of deep learning to solve the automated driving planning task necessarily requires huge amounts of real-world data or highly realistic simulation. Focusing on a roundabout scenario,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Martin Stoll , Markus Mazzola , Maxim Dolgov , Jürgen Mathes , Nicolas Möser

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) have revolutionized modern road infrastructure, providing essential functionalities such as traffic monitoring, road safety assessment, congestion reduction, and law enforcement. Effective vehicle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Himanshu Pahadia , Duo Lu , Bharatesh Chakravarthi , Yezhou Yang