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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…

Generic generation and manipulation of text is challenging and has limited success compared to recent deep generative modeling in visual domain. This paper aims at generating plausible natural language sentences, whose attributes are…

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Generating high-quality synthetic text under differential privacy (DP) is critical for training and evaluating language models without compromising user privacy. Prior work on synthesizing DP datasets often fail to preserve key statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Yuzheng Hu , Ryan McKenna , Da Yu , Shanshan Wu , Han Zhao , Zheng Xu , Peter Kairouz

The widespread adoption of electronic health records and digital healthcare data has created a demand for data-driven insights to enhance patient outcomes, diagnostics, and treatments. However, using real patient data presents privacy and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Aryan Jadon , Shashank Kumar

Text mining and information retrieval techniques have been developed to assist us with analyzing, organizing and retrieving documents with the help of computers. In many cases, it is desirable that the authors of such documents remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Benjamin Weggenmann , Florian Kerschbaum

The success of large language models (LLMs) facilitate many parties to fine-tune LLMs on their own private data. However, this practice raises privacy concerns due to the memorization of LLMs. Existing solutions, such as utilizing synthetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Wenhao Wang , Xiaoyu Liang , Rui Ye , Jingyi Chai , Siheng Chen , Yanfeng Wang

Most of privacy protection studies for textual data focus on removing explicit sensitive identifiers. However, personal writing style, as a strong indicator of the authorship, is often neglected. Recent studies, such as SynTF, have shown…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Haohan Bo , Steven H. H. Ding , Benjamin C. M. Fung , Farkhund Iqbal

The vast amount of available medical records has the potential to improve healthcare and biomedical research. However, privacy restrictions make these data accessible for internal use only. Recent works have addressed this problem by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Samuel Belkadi , Libo Ren , Nicolo Micheletti , Lifeng Han , Goran Nenadic

Synthetic text generation with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees emerges as a principled approach that can enable the sharing of sensitive datasets across institutional and regulatory boundaries, while bounding the risks of…

How capable are diffusion models of generating synthetics texts? Recent research shows their strengths, with performance reaching that of auto-regressive LLMs. But are they also good in generating synthetic data if the training was under…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Sebastian Ochs , Ivan Habernal

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

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) enhances large language models (LLMs) by grounding them in external knowledge. However, its application in sensitive domains is limited by privacy risks. Existing private RAG methods typically rely on…

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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

High-fidelity generative models are increasingly needed in privacy-sensitive scenarios, where access to data is severely restricted due to regulatory and copyright constraints. This scarcity hampers model development--ironically, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Xuemei Jia , Jiawei Du , Hui Wei , Jun Chen , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Zheng Wang

We propose CHRT (Control Hidden Representation Transformation) - a controlled language generation framework that steers large language models to generate text pertaining to certain attributes (such as toxicity). CHRT gains attribute control…

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Data availability is a bottleneck during early stages of development of new capabilities for intelligent artificial agents. We investigate the use of text generation techniques to augment the training data of a popular commercial artificial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Nikolaos Malandrakis , Minmin Shen , Anuj Goyal , Shuyang Gao , Abhishek Sethi , Angeliki Metallinou

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

Recent advances in large pre-trained language models have demonstrated strong results in generating natural languages and significantly improved performances for many natural language generation (NLG) applications such as machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nanyun Peng

This study examines integrating EHRs and NLP with large language models (LLMs) to improve healthcare data management and patient care. It focuses on using advanced models to create secure, HIPAA-compliant synthetic patient notes for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yao-Shun Chuang , Atiquer Rahman Sarkar , Yu-Chun Hsu , Noman Mohammed , Xiaoqian Jiang

We explore how private synthetic text can be generated by suitably prompting a large language model (LLM). This addresses a challenge for organizations like hospitals, which hold sensitive text data like patient medical records, and wish to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Supriya Nagesh , Justin Y. Chen , Nina Mishra , Tal Wagner