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The application of machine learning on tabular data in specialized domains is severely limited by data scarcity. While generative models offer a solution, traditional methods falter in low-data regimes, and recent Large Language Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siyi Liu , Yujia Zheng , Yongqi Zhang

Synthetic data generation overcomes limitations of real-world machine learning. Traditional methods are valuable for augmenting costly datasets but only optimize one criterion: realism. In this paper, we tackle the problem of generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Chance N DeSmet , Diane J Cook

Agent-based transportation modelling has become the standard to simulate travel behaviour, mobility choices and activity preferences using disaggregate travel demand data for entire populations, data that are not typically readily…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq , Zachary Paterson

Deep learning models have demonstrated high-quality performance in areas such as image classification and speech processing. However, creating a deep learning model using electronic health record (EHR) data, requires addressing particular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-06 Amirsina Torfi , Edward A. Fox

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy

With the recent remarkable advancement of large language models (LLMs), there has been a growing interest in utilizing them in the domains with highly sensitive data that lies outside their training data. For this purpose,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Tatsuki Koga , Ruihan Wu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Kamalika Chaudhuri

Generation of realistic synthetic data has garnered considerable attention in recent years, particularly in the health research domain due to its utility in, for instance, sharing data while protecting patient privacy or determining optimal…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-01-30 Niki Z. Petrakos , Erica E. M. Moodie , Nicolas Savy

In a world where artificial intelligence and data science become omnipresent, data sharing is increasingly locking horns with data-privacy concerns. Differential privacy has emerged as a rigorous framework for protecting individual privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-06 March Boedihardjo , Thomas Strohmer , Roman Vershynin

Synthetic tabular data is becoming a necessity as concerns about data privacy intensify in the world. Tabular data can be useful for testing various systems, simulating real data, analyzing the data itself or building predictive models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Volodymyr Shulakov

Data augmentation via synthetic data generation has been shown to be effective in improving model performance and robustness in the context of scarce or low-quality data. Using the data valuation framework to statistically identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tommaso Ferracci , Leonie Tabea Goldmann , Anton Hinel , Francesco Sanna Passino

Financial institutions face tension between maximizing data utility and mitigating the re-identification risks inherent in traditional anonymization methods. This paper explores Differentially Private (DP) synthetic data as a robust…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Ifayoyinsola Ibikunle , Tyler Farnan , Senthil Kumar , Mayana Pereira

Process data with confidential information cannot be shared directly in public, which hinders the research in process data mining and analytics. Data encryption methods have been studied to protect the data, but they still may be decrypted,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Keyi Li , Sen Yang , Travis M. Sullivan , Randall S. Burd , Ivan Marsic

We present a novel method for publishing differentially private synthetic attributed graphs. Unlike preceding approaches, our method is able to preserve the community structure of the original graph without sacrificing the ability to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Xihui Chen , Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz

How can we release a massive volume of sensitive data while mitigating privacy risks? Privacy-preserving data synthesis enables the data holder to outsource analytical tasks to an untrusted third party. The state-of-the-art approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Shun Takagi , Tsubasa Takahashi , Yang Cao , Masatoshi Yoshikawa

Privacy concerns have attracted increasing attention in data-driven products due to the tendency of machine learning models to memorize sensitive training data. Generating synthetic versions of such data with a formal privacy guarantee,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Xiang Yue , Huseyin A. Inan , Xuechen Li , Girish Kumar , Julia McAnallen , Hoda Shajari , Huan Sun , David Levitan , Robert Sim

When acting as a privacy-enhancing technology, synthetic data generation (SDG) aims to maintain a resemblance to the real data while excluding personally-identifiable information. Many SDG algorithms provide robust differential privacy (DP)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Steven Golob , Sikha Pentyala , Anuar Maratkhan , Martine De Cock

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

Synthetic tabular data is essential for machine learning workflows, especially for expanding small or imbalanced datasets and enabling privacy-preserving data sharing. However, state-of-the-art generative models (GANs, VAEs, diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Jessup Byun , Xiaofeng Lin , Joshua Ward , Guang Cheng

Synthetic data generation is a powerful tool for privacy protection when considering public release of record-level data files. Initially proposed about three decades ago, it has generated significant research and application interest. To…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-03 Jingchen Hu , Claire McKay Bowen

In this paper, we propose a distributed Generative Adversarial Networks (discGANs) to generate synthetic tabular data specific to the healthcare domain. While using GANs to generate images has been well studied, little to no attention has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 David Fuentes , Diana McSpadden , Sodiq Adewole