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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…

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The wide-spread availability of rich data has fueled the growth of machine learning applications in numerous domains. However, growth in domains with highly-sensitive data (e.g., medical) is largely hindered as the private nature of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 Dingfan Chen , Tribhuvanesh Orekondy , Mario Fritz

Synthetic data generation is an appealing tool for augmenting and enriching datasets, playing a crucial role in advancing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). Not only does synthetic data help build robust AI/ML datasets…

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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

Despite several works that succeed in generating synthetic data with differential privacy (DP) guarantees, they are inadequate for generating high-quality synthetic data when the input data has missing values. In this work, we formalize the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shubhankar Mohapatra , Jianqiao Zong , Florian Kerschbaum , Xi He

Synthetic data generation is gaining traction as a privacy enhancing technology (PET). When properly generated, synthetic data preserve the analytic utility of real data while avoiding the retention of information that would allow the…

Data scarcity and sparsity in bio-manufacturing poses challenges for accurate model development, process monitoring, and optimization. We aim to replicate and capture the complex dynamics of industrial bioprocesses by proposing the use of a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Shawn M. Gibford , Mohammad Reza Boskabadi , Christopher J. Savoie , Seyed Soheil Mansouri

Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

The increasing adoption of synthetic data in aviation research offers a promising solution to data scarcity and confidentiality challenges. This study investigates the potential of generative models to produce realistic synthetic flight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Karim Aly , Alexei Sharpanskykh

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants serve as a perfect representation of the data generation model, providing researchers with a large amount of high-quality generated data. They illustrate a promising direction for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Yi Liu , Jialiang Peng , James J. Q Yu , Yi Wu

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances the outputs of language models by integrating relevant information retrieved from external knowledge sources. However, when the retrieval process involves private data, RAG systems may face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Shenglai Zeng , Jiankun Zhang , Pengfei He , Jie Ren , Tianqi Zheng , Hanqing Lu , Han Xu , Hui Liu , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang

In recent years, financial institutions and firms have increasingly adopted synthetic data to address data scarcity and to generate counterfactual market scenarios. However, reproducing all the statistical properties of financial time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Giuseppe Masi , Andrea Coletta , Novella Bartolini

Deep learning holds immense promise for aiding radiologists in breast cancer detection. However, achieving optimal model performance is hampered by limitations in availability and sharing of data commonly associated to patient privacy…

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Electrocardiogram (ECG) datasets tend to be highly imbalanced due to the scarcity of abnormal cases. Additionally, the use of real patients' ECGs is highly regulated due to privacy issues. Therefore, there is always a need for more ECG…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Edmond Adib , Fatemeh Afghah , John J. Prevost

The undergoing energy transition is causing behavioral changes in electricity use, e.g. with self-consumption of local generation, or flexibility services for demand control. To better understand these changes and the challenges they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Tahar Nabil , Ghislain Agoua , Pierre Cauchois , Anne De Moliner , Benoît Grossin

Background: Heart failure (HF) research is constrained by limited access to large, shareable datasets due to privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to overcome these challenges…

Detecting fake images is becoming a major goal of computer vision. This need is becoming more and more pressing with the continuous improvement of synthesis methods based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN), and even more with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Riccardo Corvi , Davide Cozzolino , Giovanni Poggi , Koki Nagano , Luisa Verdoliva

When researchers develop new econometric methods it is common practice to compare the performance of the new methods to those of existing methods in Monte Carlo studies. The credibility of such Monte Carlo studies is often limited because…

Econometrics · Economics 2020-07-23 Susan Athey , Guido Imbens , Jonas Metzger , Evan Munro

Networks are popular for representing complex data. In particular, differentially private synthetic networks are much in demand for method and algorithm development. The network generator should be easy to implement and should come with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-18 Leoni Carla Wirth , Gholamali Aminian , Gesine Reinert

Synthetic tabular data generation has gained significant attention for its potential in data augmentation and privacy-preserving data sharing. While recent methods like diffusion and auto-regressive models (i.e., transformer) have advanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Jiayu Li , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee , Uzair Javaid , Biplab Sikdar