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Artificial intelligence and data access are already mainstream. One of the main challenges when designing an artificial intelligence or disclosing content from a database is preserving the privacy of individuals who participate in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Clément Pierquin , Bastien Zimmermann , Matthieu Boussard

Local differential privacy (LDP) has recently become a popular privacy-preserving data collection technique protecting users' privacy. The main problem of data stream collection under LDP is the poor utility due to multi-item collection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Ying Li , Xiaodong Lee , Botao Peng , Themis Palpanas , Jingan Xue

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

Synthetic tabular data enables sharing and analysis of sensitive records, but its practical deployment requires balancing distributional fidelity, downstream utility, and privacy protection. We study a simple, model agnostic post processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 David Yavo , Richard Khoury , Christophe Pere , Sadoune Ait Kaci Azzou

Increasing interest in privacy-preserving machine learning has led to new and evolved approaches for generating private synthetic data from undisclosed real data. However, mechanisms of privacy preservation can significantly reduce the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-05-23 Sahra Ghalebikesabi , Harrison Wilde , Jack Jewson , Arnaud Doucet , Sebastian Vollmer , Chris Holmes

Deep neural networks often use large, high-quality datasets to achieve high performance on many machine learning tasks. When training involves potentially sensitive data, this process can raise privacy concerns, as large models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Felix Zhou , Samson Zhou , Vahab Mirrokni , Alessandro Epasto , Vincent Cohen-Addad

Differential privacy (DP) enables safe data release, with synthetic data generation emerging as a common approach in recent years. Yet standard synthesizers preserve all dependencies in the data, including spurious correlations between…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Naeim Ghahramanpour , Mostafa Milani

Differential Privacy (DP) image data synthesis, which leverages the DP technique to generate synthetic data to replace the sensitive data, allowing organizations to share and utilize synthetic images without privacy concerns. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Kecen Li , Chen Gong , Zhixiang Li , Yuzhong Zhao , Xinwen Hou , Tianhao Wang

Differential privacy (DP) provides a mathematical guarantee limiting what an adversary can learn about any individual from released data. However, achieving this protection typically requires adding noise, and noise can accumulate when many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amir Asiaee , Chao Yan , Zachary B. Abrams , Bradley A. Malin

Although machine learning models trained on massive data have led to break-throughs in several areas, their deployment in privacy-sensitive domains remains limited due to restricted access to data. Generative models trained with privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Tianshi Cao , Alex Bie , Arash Vahdat , Sanja Fidler , Karsten Kreis

We propose a method for the release of differentially private synthetic datasets. In many contexts, data contain sensitive values which cannot be released in their original form in order to protect individuals' privacy. Synthetic data is a…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-05-25 Joshua Snoke , Aleksandra Slavković

Synthetic control is a causal inference tool used to estimate the treatment effects of an intervention by creating synthetic counterfactual data. This approach combines measurements from other similar observations (i.e., donor pool ) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Saeyoung Rho , Rachel Cummings , Vishal Misra

The objective of differential privacy (DP) is to protect privacy by producing an output distribution that is indistinguishable between any two neighboring databases. However, traditional differentially private mechanisms tend to produce…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Kai Zhang , Yanjun Zhang , Ruoxi Sun , Pei-Wei Tsai , Muneeb Ul Hassan , Xin Yuan , Minhui Xue , Jinjun Chen

Federated analytics seeks to compute accurate statistics from data distributed across users' devices while providing a suitable privacy guarantee and being practically feasible to implement and scale. In this paper, we show how a strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Akash Bharadwaj , Graham Cormode

The objective of privacy-preserving synthetic graph publishing is to safeguard individuals' privacy while retaining the utility of original data. Most existing methods focus on graph neural networks under differential privacy (DP), and yet…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Sen Zhang , Haibo Hu , Qingqing Ye , Jianliang Xu

We introduce the DP-auto-GAN framework for synthetic data generation, which combines the low dimensional representation of autoencoders with the flexibility of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This framework can be used to take in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Uthaipon Tantipongpipat , Chris Waites , Digvijay Boob , Amaresh Ankit Siva , Rachel Cummings

In differential privacy (DP), a challenging problem is to generate synthetic datasets that efficiently capture the useful information in the private data. The synthetic dataset enables any task to be done without privacy concern and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Ninghui Li , Jean Honorio , Michael Backes , Shibo He , Jiming Chen , Yang Zhang

Developing machine learning methods that are privacy preserving is today a central topic of research, with huge practical impacts. Among the numerous ways to address privacy-preserving learning, we here take the perspective of computing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Alain Rakotomamonjy , Liva Ralaivola

Privacy concerns have attracted increasing attention in data-driven products due to the tendency of machine learning models to memorize sensitive training data. Generating synthetic versions of such data with a formal privacy guarantee,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Xiang Yue , Huseyin A. Inan , Xuechen Li , Girish Kumar , Julia McAnallen , Hoda Shajari , Huan Sun , David Levitan , Robert Sim

Sharing sensitive time series data in domains such as finance, healthcare, and energy consumption, such as patient records or investment accounts, is often restricted due to privacy concerns. Privacy-aware synthetic time series generation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Penghang Liu , Haibei Zhu , Eleonora Kreacic , Svitlana Vyetrenko