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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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Amy Steier , Lipika Ramaswamy , Andre Manoel , Alexa Haushalter

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

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

In the current data driven era, synthetic data, artificially generated data that resembles the characteristics of real world data without containing actual personal information, is gaining prominence. This is due to its potential to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Tshilidzi Marwala , Eleonore Fournier-Tombs , Serge Stinckwich

Synthetic data generation is a key technique in modern artificial intelligence, addressing data scarcity, privacy constraints, and the need for diverse datasets in training robust models. In this work, we propose a method for generating…

Privacy poses a significant obstacle to the progress of learning analytics (LA), presenting challenges like inadequate anonymization and data misuse that current solutions struggle to address. Synthetic data emerges as a potential remedy,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Qinyi Liu , Mohammad Khalil , Ronas Shakya , Jelena Jovanovic

We explore the privacy-utility tradeoff of synthetic data generation schemes on tabular financial datasets, a domain characterized by high regulatory risk and severe class imbalance. We consider representative tabular data generators,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Michael Zuo , Inwon Kang , Stacy Patterson , Oshani Seneviratne

Differential privacy (DP) provides a principled approach to synthesizing data (e.g., loads) from real-world power systems while limiting the exposure of sensitive information. However, adversaries may exploit synthetic data to calibrate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-05 Shengyang Wu , Vladimir Dvorkin

Privacy-preserving data publication, including synthetic data sharing, often experiences trade-offs between privacy and utility. Synthetic data is generally more effective than data anonymization in balancing this trade-off, however, not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yan Zhou , Bradley Malin , Murat Kantarcioglu

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising approach to address the challenges of using sensitive financial data in machine learning applications. By leveraging generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 James Meldrum , Basem Suleiman , Fethi Rabhi , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

Synthetic data has gained significant momentum thanks to sophisticated machine learning tools that enable the synthesis of high-dimensional datasets. However, many generation techniques do not give the data controller control over what…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Florimond Houssiau , Samuel N. Cohen , Lukasz Szpruch , Owen Daniel , Michaela G. Lawrence , Robin Mitra , Henry Wilde , Callum Mole

Big data analysis poses the dual problem of privacy preservation and utility, i.e., how accurate data analyses remain after transforming original data in order to protect the privacy of the individuals that the data is about - and whether…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Md Sakib Nizam Khan , Niklas Reje , Sonja Buchegger

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

Training generative machine learning models to produce synthetic tabular data has become a popular approach for enhancing privacy in data sharing. As this typically involves processing sensitive personal information, releasing either the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Synthetic data is emerging as a cost-effective solution necessary to meet the increasing data demands of AI development, created either from existing knowledge or derived from real data. The traditional classification of synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Vibeke Binz Vallevik , Serena Elizabeth Marshall , Aleksandar Babic , Jan Franz Nygaard

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

Recent advances in generating synthetic data that allow to add principled ways of protecting privacy -- such as Differential Privacy -- are a crucial step in sharing statistical information in a privacy preserving way. But while the focus…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-10-04 Christian Arnold , Marcel Neunhoeffer

Synthetic data has been widely applied in the real world recently. One typical example is the creation of synthetic data for privacy concerned datasets. In this scenario, synthetic data substitute the real data which contains the privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Ling , Tim Menzies , Christopher Hazard , Jack Shu , Jacob Beel

Generative AI technologies are gaining unprecedented popularity, causing a mix of excitement and apprehension through their remarkable capabilities. In this paper, we study the challenges associated with deploying synthetic data, a subfield…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Lauren Arthur , Jason Costello , Jonathan Hardy , Will O'Brien , James Rea , Gareth Rees , Georgi Ganev

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
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