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Differentially private graph analysis is a powerful tool for deriving insights from diverse graph data while protecting individual information. Designing private analytic algorithms for different graph queries often requires starting from…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Shang Liu , Hao Du , Yang Cao , Bo Yan , Jinfei Liu , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

The ability to generate high-fidelity synthetic data is crucial when available (real) data is limited or where privacy and data protection standards allow only for limited use of the given data, e.g., in medical and financial data-sets.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-05 Sanket Kamthe , Samuel Assefa , Marc Deisenroth

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Many of the commonly used datasets for face recognition development are collected from the internet without proper user consent. Due to the increasing focus on privacy in the social and legal frameworks, the use and distribution of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Jan Niklas Kolf , Tim Rieber , Jurek Elliesen , Fadi Boutros , Arjan Kuijper , Naser Damer

One of the limiting factors in training data-driven, rare-event prediction algorithms is the scarcity of the events of interest resulting in an extreme imbalance in the data. There have been many methods introduced in the literature for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Yang Chen , Dustin J. Kempton , Azim Ahmadzadeh , Rafal A. Angryk

As synthetic data becomes increasingly popular in machine learning tasks, numerous methods--without formal differential privacy guarantees--use synthetic data for training. These methods often claim, either explicitly or implicitly, to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yunpeng Zhao , Jie Zhang

As Deep Learning algorithms continue to evolve and become more sophisticated, they require massive datasets for model training and efficacy of models. Some of those data requirements can be met with the help of existing datasets within the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-04-07 Monik Raj Behera , Sudhir Upadhyay , Suresh Shetty , Sudha Priyadarshini , Palka Patel , Ker Farn Lee

Generative adversarial network (GAN) has attracted increasing attention recently owing to its impressive ability to generate realistic samples with high privacy protection. Without directly interactive with training examples, the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Chuan Ma , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Bo Liu , Kang Wei , Jian Weng , H. Vincent Poor

Synthetic data generation becomes prevalent as a solution to privacy leakage and data shortage. Generative models are designed to generate a realistic synthetic dataset, which can precisely express the data distribution for the real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Bingyang Wen , Luis Oliveros Colon , K. P. Subbalakshmi , R. Chandramouli

Generative modelling has become the standard approach for synthesising tabular data. However, different use cases demand synthetic data to comply with different requirements to be useful in practice. In this survey, we review deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Synthetic data generation is a promising solution to address privacy issues with the distribution of sensitive health data. Recently, diffusion models have set new standards for generative models for different data modalities. Also very…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Juan Miguel Lopez Alcaraz , Nils Strodthoff

Human-centered data collection is typically costly and implicates issues of privacy. Various solutions have been proposed in the literature to reduce this cost, such as crowdsourced data collection, or the use of semi-supervised algorithms.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Mohammad Nabati , Hojjat Navidan , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi , David Windridge

While synthetic data hold great promise for privacy protection, their statistical analysis poses significant challenges that necessitate innovative solutions. The use of deep generative models (DGMs) for synthetic data generation is known…

Face recognition systems have significantly advanced in recent years, driven by the availability of large-scale datasets. However, several issues have recently came up, including privacy concerns that have led to the discontinuation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Pietro Melzi , Christian Rathgeb , Ruben Tolosana , Ruben Vera-Rodriguez , Dominik Lawatsch , Florian Domin , Maxim Schaubert

Nowadays, various stakeholders involved in the analysis of electric power distribution grids face difficulties in the data acquisition related to the grid topology and parameters of grid assets. To mitigate the problem and possibly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-27 Chandra Sekhar Charan Dande , Luca Mattorolo , Joel da Silva Andre , Lydia Lavecchia , Nikolaos Efkarpidis , Damiano Toffanin

Many data-driven modules in smart grid rely on access to high-quality power flow data; however, real-world data are often limited due to privacy and operational constraints. This paper presents a physics-informed generative framework based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Junfei Wang , Darshana Upadhyay , Marzia Zaman , Pirathayini Srikantha

Face recognition models are trained on large-scale datasets, which have privacy and ethical concerns. Lately, the use of synthetic data to complement or replace genuine data for the training of face recognition models has been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Geissbühler , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

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

In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum generative model for synthesizing tabular data. Synthetic data is valuable in scenarios where real-world data is scarce or private, it can be used to augment or replace existing datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Pallavi Bhardwaj , Caitlin Jones , Lasse Dierich , Aleksandar Vučković

The growing reliance on data-driven applications in sectors such as healthcare, finance, and law enforcement underscores the need for secure, privacy-preserving, and scalable mechanisms for data generation and sharing. Synthetic data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Eduardo Brito , Mahmoud Shoush , Kristian Tamm , Paula Etti , Liina Kamm