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Recent advances in generative models facilitate the creation of synthetic data to be made available for research in privacy-sensitive contexts. However, the analysis of synthetic data raises a unique set of methodological challenges. In…

The generation of privacy-preserving synthetic datasets is a promising avenue for overcoming data scarcity in medical AI research. Post-hoc privacy filtering techniques, designed to remove samples containing personally identifiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Adil Koeken , Alexander Ziller , Moritz Knolle , Daniel Rueckert

While power systems research relies on the availability of real-world network datasets, data owners (e.g., system operators) are hesitant to share data due to security and privacy risks. To control these risks, we develop privacy-preserving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vladimir Dvorkin , Audun Botterud

Tabular data is one of the most prevalent and important data formats in real-world applications such as healthcare, finance, and education. However, its effective use in machine learning is often constrained by data scarcity, privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ruxue Shi , Yili Wang , Mengnan Du , Xu Shen , Yi Chang , Xin Wang

Synthetic data generation is a promising technique to facilitate the use of sensitive data while mitigating the risk of privacy breaches. However, for synthetic data to be useful in downstream analysis tasks, it needs to be of sufficient…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-26 Thom Benjamin Volker , Peter-Paul de Wolf , Erik-Jan van Kesteren

Testing in production-like test environments is an essential part of quality assurance processes in many industries. Provisioning of such test environments, for information-intensive services, involves setting up databases that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Razieh Behjati , Erik Arisholm , Chao Tan , Margrethe M. Bedregal

Generative AI offers transformative potential for high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, yet privacy and regulatory barriers hinder the use of real-world data. To address this, differentially private synthetic data generation…

Synthetic data and simulators have the potential to markedly improve the performance and robustness of recommendation systems. These approaches have already had a beneficial impact in other machine-learning driven fields. We identify and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Adam Lesnikowski , Gabriel de Souza Pereira Moreira , Sara Rabhi , Karl Byleen-Higley

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

Large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful tool for synthetic data generation. A particularly important use case is producing synthetic replicas of private text, which requires carefully balancing privacy and utility. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qian Ma , Sarah Rajtmajer

Differentially private training algorithms like DP-SGD protect sensitive training data by ensuring that trained models do not reveal private information. An alternative approach, which this paper studies, is to use a sensitive dataset to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Alexey Kurakin , Natalia Ponomareva , Umar Syed , Liam MacDermed , Andreas Terzis

Synthetic data has emerged as a powerful resource in life sciences, offering solutions for data scarcity, privacy protection and accessibility constraints. By creating artificial datasets that mirror the characteristics of real data, allows…

The protection of private information is of vital importance in data-driven research, business, and government. The conflict between privacy and utility has triggered intensive research in the computer science and statistics communities,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-11 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

In this paper, we propose generating artificial data that retain statistical properties of real data as the means of providing privacy with respect to the original dataset. We use generative adversarial network to draw privacy-preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Aleksei Triastcyn , Boi Faltings

Synthetic data is emerging as a substitute for authentic data to solve ethical and legal challenges in handling authentic face data. The current models can create real-looking face images of people who do not exist. However, it is a known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Marco Huber , Anh Thi Luu , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

Smart vehicles produce large amounts of data, much of which is sensitive and at risk of privacy breaches. As attackers increasingly exploit anonymised metadata within these datasets to profile drivers, it's important to find solutions that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Krish Parikh

The advancement of visual intelligence is intrinsically tethered to the availability of large-scale data. In parallel, generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has unlocked the potential to create synthetic images that closely resemble…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zuhao Yang , Fangneng Zhan , Kunhao Liu , Muyu Xu , Shijian Lu

Machine learning applications are becoming increasingly pervasive in our society. Since these decision-making systems rely on data-driven learning, risk is that they will systematically spread the bias embedded in data. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-09 Alessandro Castelnovo , Riccardo Crupi , Nicole Inverardi , Daniele Regoli , Andrea Cosentini

Access to granular demand data is essential for the net zero transition; it allows for accurate profiling and active demand management as our reliance on variable renewable generation increases. However, public release of this data is often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Sheng Chai , Gus Chadney , Charlot Avery , Phil Grunewald , Pascal Van Hentenryck , Priya L. Donti

Differential privacy (DP) has been accepted as a rigorous criterion for measuring the privacy protection offered by random mechanisms used to obtain statistics or, as we will study here, synthetic datasets from confidential data. Methods to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Leila Nombo , Anne-Sophie Charest