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Sharing sensitive data is vital in enabling many modern data analysis and machine learning tasks. However, current methods for data release are insufficiently accurate or granular to provide meaningful utility, and they carry a high risk of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Teddy Cunningham , Graham Cormode , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

This paper introduces two methods of creating differentially private (DP) synthetic data that are now incorporated into the \textit{synthpop} package for \textbf{R}. Both are suitable for synthesising categorical data, or numeric data…

Applications · Statistics 2022-06-28 Gillian M Raab

Differentially private synthetic data is a promising alternative for sensitive data release. Many differentially private generative models have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, they all suffer from the low utility of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Cao , Chun-Ying Huang

While modern machine learning models rely on increasingly large training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. Generative models trained with differential privacy (DP) on sensitive data can sidestep this challenge,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-02 Tim Dockhorn , Tianshi Cao , Arash Vahdat , Karsten Kreis

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

In a world where artificial intelligence and data science become omnipresent, data sharing is increasingly locking horns with data-privacy concerns. Differential privacy has emerged as a rigorous framework for protecting individual privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-06 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

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

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

The difficulty of anonymizing text data hinders the development and deployment of NLP in high-stakes domains that involve private data, such as healthcare and social services. Poorly anonymized sensitive data cannot be easily shared with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Krithika Ramesh , Nupoor Gandhi , Pulkit Madaan , Lisa Bauer , Charith Peris , Anjalie Field

When machine learning models are trained on synthetic data and then deployed on real data, there is often a performance drop due to the distribution shift between synthetic and real data. In this paper, we introduce a new ensemble strategy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoyuan Sun , Navid Azizan , Akash Srivastava , Hao Wang

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the well-known models to generate synthetic data including images, especially for research communities that cannot use original sensitive datasets because they are not publicly accessible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Peter Kairouz , Benedict Paten

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

Differential privacy (DP) is a prominent method for protecting information about individuals during data analysis. Training neural networks with differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DPSGD) influences the model's learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Lea Demelius , Dominik Kowald , Simone Kopeinik , Roman Kern , Andreas Trügler

We propose a new framework of synthesizing data using deep generative models in a differentially private manner. Within our framework, sensitive data are sanitized with rigorous privacy guarantees in a one-shot fashion, such that training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Michihiko Ueno

While location trajectories offer valuable insights, they also reveal sensitive personal information. Differential Privacy (DP) offers formal protection, but achieving a favourable utility-privacy trade-off remains challenging. Recent works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Erik Buchholz , Natasha Fernandes , David D. Nguyen , Alsharif Abuadbba , Surya Nepal , Salil S. Kanhere

The availability of rich and vast data sources has greatly advanced machine learning applications in various domains. However, data with privacy concerns comes with stringent regulations that frequently prohibited data access and data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Dataset distillation (DD) compresses large datasets into smaller ones while preserving the performance of models trained on them. Although DD is often assumed to enhance data privacy by aggregating over individual examples, recent studies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuo Shi , Jinghuai Zhang , Shijie Jiang , Chunyi Zhou , Yuyuan Li , Mengying Zhu , Yangyang Wu , Tianyu Du

Differentially private (DP) machine learning often relies on the availability of public data for tasks like privacy-utility trade-off estimation, hyperparameter tuning, and pretraining. While public data assumptions may be reasonable in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Shlomi Hod , Lucas Rosenblatt , Julia Stoyanovich

Synthetic tabular data generation with differential privacy is a crucial problem to enable data sharing with formal privacy. Despite a rich history of methodological research and development, developing differentially private tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Toan V. Tran , Li Xiong

Personalized privacy becomes critical in deep learning for Trustworthy AI. While Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is widely used in deep learning methods supporting privacy, it provides the same level of privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Geon Heo , Junseok Seo , Steven Euijong Whang