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Recent advancements in generative AI have made it possible to create synthetic datasets that can be as accurate as real-world data for training AI models, powering statistical insights, and fostering collaboration with sensitive datasets…

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Motivated by privacy concerns in long-term longitudinal studies in medical and social science research, we study the problem of continually releasing differentially private synthetic data from longitudinal data collections. We introduce a…

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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

Machine learning practitioners frequently seek to leverage the most informative available data, without violating the data owner's privacy, when building predictive models. Differentially private data synthesis protects personal details…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lucas Rosenblatt , Xiaoyan Liu , Samira Pouyanfar , Eduardo de Leon , Anuj Desai , Joshua Allen

User-level differentially private stochastic convex optimization (DP-SCO) has garnered significant attention due to the paramount importance of safeguarding user privacy in modern large-scale machine learning applications. Current methods,…

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Access to individual-level health data is essential for gaining new insights and advancing science. In particular, modern methods based on artificial intelligence rely on the availability of and access to large datasets. In the health…

A well-known algorithm in privacy-preserving ML is differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD). While this algorithm has been evaluated on text and image data, it has not been previously applied to ads data, which are…

Recent advances in synthetic data generation (SDG) have been hailed as a solution to the difficult problem of sharing sensitive data while protecting privacy. SDG aims to learn statistical properties of real data in order to generate…

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The U.S. Census Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) product contains employment and payroll information of all U.S. establishments and firms dating back to 1976 and is an invaluable resource for economic research. However, the sensitive…

Applications · Statistics 2023-10-17 Tran Tran , Matthew Reimherr , Aleksandra Slavković

In this paper, we revisit the problem of using in-distribution public data to improve the privacy/utility trade-offs for differentially private (DP) model training. (Here, public data refers to auxiliary data sets that have no privacy…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adapted to proprietary and domain-specific corpora that contain sensitive information, creating a tension between formal privacy guarantees and efficient deployment through model compression.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fatemeh Khadem , Sajad Mousavi , Yi Fang , Yuhong Liu

In the arena of privacy-preserving machine learning, differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has outstripped the objective perturbation mechanism in popularity and interest. Though unrivaled in versatility, DP-SGD…

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More data is almost always beneficial for analysis and machine learning tasks. In many realistic situations however, an enterprise cannot share its data, either to keep a competitive advantage or to protect the privacy of the data sources,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-09-16 Jean-Francois Rajotte , Raymond T Ng

Generative modeling has been used frequently in synthetic data generation. Fairness and privacy are two big concerns for synthetic data. Although Recent GAN [\cite{goodfellow2014generative}] based methods show good results in preserving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Weijie Xu , Jinjin Zhao , Francis Iannacci , Bo Wang

Differentially private stochastic gradient descent (DP-SGD) has been widely adopted in deep learning to provide rigorously defined privacy, which requires gradient clipping to bound the maximum norm of individual gradients and additive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Junyi Zhu , Matthew B. Blaschko

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

When synthetic data is released, some individuals are harder to protect than others. A patient with a rare disease combination or a transaction with unusual characteristics stands out from the crowd. Differential privacy provides worst-case…

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

Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) has been widely used for solving optimization problems with privacy guarantees in machine learning and statistics. Despite this, a systematic non-asymptotic convergence analysis…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-10 Enze Shi , Jinhan Xie , Bei Jiang , Linglong Kong , Xuming He

Synthetic data generation has become essential for securely sharing and analyzing sensitive data sets. Traditional anonymization techniques, however, often fail to adequately preserve privacy. We introduce the Tabular Auto-Regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Andrey Sidorenko , Paul Tiwald

With the development of machine learning and data science, data sharing is very common between companies and research institutes to avoid data scarcity. However, sharing original datasets that contain private information can cause privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mingchen Li , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang