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Synthetic data generation is one approach for sharing individual-level data. However, to meet legislative requirements, it is necessary to demonstrate that the individuals' privacy is adequately protected. There is no consolidated standard…

Despite various breakthroughs in machine learning and data analysis techniques for improving smart operation and management of urban water infrastructures, some key limitations obstruct this progress. Among these shortcomings, the absence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Amin E. Bakhshipour , Alireza Koochali , Ulrich Dittmer , Ali Haghighi , Sheraz Ahmad , Andreas Dengel

The widespread adoption of wearable sensors has the potential to provide massive and heterogeneous time series data, driving the use of Artificial Intelligence in human sensing applications. However, data collection remains limited due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Flavio Di Martino , Franca Delmastro

Synthetic data has been advertised as a silver-bullet solution to privacy-preserving data publishing that addresses the shortcomings of traditional anonymisation techniques. The promise is that synthetic data drawn from generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Theresa Stadler , Bristena Oprisanu , Carmela Troncoso

To address the scarcity and privacy concerns of network traffic data, various generative models have been developed to produce synthetic traffic. However, synthetic traffic is not inherently privacy-preserving, and the extent to which it…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Van Tran , Shinan Liu , Tian Li , Nick Feamster

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) implicitly learn the probability distribution of a dataset and can draw samples from the distribution. This paper presents, Tabular GAN (TGAN), a generative adversarial network which can generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Lei Xu , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

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

Data privacy is a critical challenge in modern medical workflows as the adoption of electronic patient records has grown rapidly. Stringent data protection regulations limit access to clinical records for training and integrating machine…

Recent advances in deep learning demonstrate the ability to generate synthetic gaze data. However, most approaches have primarily focused on generating data from random noise distributions or global, predefined latent embeddings, whereas…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Kamrul Hasan , Dmytro Katrychuk , Mehedi Hasan Raju , Oleg V. Komogortsev

Deep learning models have demonstrated superior performance in several application problems, such as image classification and speech processing. However, creating a deep learning model using health record data requires addressing certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Amirsina Torfi , Edward A. Fox , Chandan K. Reddy

Synthetic data inherits the differential privacy guarantees of the model used to generate it. Additionally, synthetic data may benefit from privacy amplification when the generative model is kept hidden. While empirical studies suggest this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Clément Pierquin , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Matthieu Boussard

Due to the growing rise of cyber attacks in the Internet, flow-based data sets are crucial to increase the performance of the Machine Learning (ML) components that run in network-based intrusion detection systems (IDS). To overcome the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Alberto Mozo , Ángel González-Prieto , Antonio Pastor , Sandra Gómez-Canaval , Edgar Talavera

Techniques to deliver privacy-preserving synthetic datasets take a sensitive dataset as input and produce a similar dataset as output while maintaining differential privacy. These approaches have the potential to improve data sharing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Institutions collect massive learning traces but they may not disclose it for privacy issues. Synthetic data generation opens new opportunities for research in education. In this paper we present a generative model for educational data that…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-07-09 Jill-Jênn Vie , Tomas Rigaux , Sein Minn

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

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are one of the most robust and versatile techniques in the field of generative artificial intelligence. In this work, we report on an application of GANs in the domain of synthetic spectral data…

Private synthetic data sharing is preferred as it keeps the distribution and nuances of original data compared to summary statistics. The state-of-the-art methods adopt a select-measure-generate paradigm, but measuring large domain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Meifan Zhang , Dihang Deng , Lihua Yin

Deep learning in cardiac MRI (CMR) is fundamentally constrained by both data scarcity and privacy regulations. This study systematically benchmarks three generative architectures: Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM), Latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Madhura Edirisooriya , Dasuni Kawya , Ishan Kumarasinghe , Isuri Devindi , Mary M. Maleckar , Roshan Ragel , Isuru Nawinne , Vajira Thambawita

Recent years have noticed an increasing interest among academia and industry towards analyzing the electrical consumption of residential buildings and employing smart home energy management systems (HEMS) to reduce household energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Mina Razghandi , Hao Zhou , Melike Erol-Kantarci , Damla Turgut

The ability to generate privacy-preserving synthetic versions of sensitive image datasets could unlock numerous ML applications currently constrained by data availability. Due to their astonishing image generation quality, diffusion models…