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Many real-world tasks are plagued by limitations on data: in some instances very little data is available and in others, data is protected by privacy enforcing regulations (e.g. GDPR). We consider limitations posed specifically on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Padmanaba Srinivasan , William J. Knottenbelt

Advances in generative models have transformed the field of synthetic image generation for privacy-preserving data synthesis (PPDS). However, the field lacks a comprehensive survey and comparison of synthetic image generation methods across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Yunsung Chung , Yunbei Zhang , Nassir Marrouche , Jihun Hamm

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

This paper explores the strategic use of modern synthetic data generation and advanced data perturbation techniques to enhance security, maintain analytical utility, and improve operational efficiency when managing large datasets, with a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Anantha Sharma , Swetha Devabhaktuni , Eklove Mohan

Artificial data synthesis is currently a well studied topic with useful applications in data science, computer vision, graphics and many other fields. Generating realistic data is especially challenging since human perception is highly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Gil Shamai , Ron Slossberg , Ron Kimmel

Making evidence based decisions requires data. However for real-world applications, the privacy of data is critical. Using synthetic data which reflects certain statistical properties of the original data preserves the privacy of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Varun Chandrasekaran , Darren Edge , Somesh Jha , Amit Sharma , Cheng Zhang , Shruti Tople

Data privacy concerns have led to the growing interest in synthetic data, which strives to preserve the statistical properties of the original dataset while ensuring privacy by excluding real records. Recent advances in deep neural networks…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-15 Nir Keret , Ali Shojaie

Synthetic data generation (SDG) is a promising approach for enabling data sharing in biomedical studies while preserving patient privacy. Yet, state-of-the-art generative models often require large datasets and complex training procedures,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Natalia Espinosa-Dice , Nicholas J. Jackson , Chao Yan , Aaron Lee , Bradley A. Malin

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 Adversarial Networks (GANs) are powerful models able to synthesize data samples closely resembling the distribution of real data, yet the diversity of those generated samples is limited due to the so-called mode collapse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Jan Dubiński , Kamil Deja , Sandro Wenzel , Przemysław Rokita , Tomasz Trzciński

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

Access to electronic health record (EHR) data has motivated computational advances in medical research. However, various concerns, particularly over privacy, can limit access to and collaborative use of EHR data. Sharing synthetic EHR data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-15 Edward Choi , Siddharth Biswal , Bradley Malin , Jon Duke , Walter F. Stewart , Jimeng Sun

Machine Learning (ML) is accelerating progress across fields and industries, but relies on accessible and high-quality training data. Some of the most important datasets are found in biomedical and financial domains in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Gianluca Truda

Generative adversarial networks constitute a powerful approach to generative modeling. While generated samples often are indistinguishable from real data, there is no guarantee that they will follow the true data distribution. For…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-09-09 Philipp Pilar , Niklas Wahlström

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

Synthetic media generated by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) pose significant challenges in verifying authenticity and tracing dataset origins, raising critical concerns in copyright enforcement, privacy protection, and legal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Massimiliano Cassia , Luca Guarnera , Mirko Casu , Ignazio Zangara , Sebastiano Battiato

Deep learning models can achieve high inference accuracy by extracting rich knowledge from massive well-annotated data, but may pose the risk of data privacy leakage in practical deployment. In this paper, we present an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Bochao Liu , Jianghu Lu , Pengju Wang , Junjie Zhang , Dan Zeng , Zhenxing Qian , Shiming Ge

Generating synthetic data through generative models is gaining interest in the ML community and beyond. In the past, synthetic data was often regarded as a means to private data release, but a surge of recent papers explore how its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Boris van Breugel , Mihaela van der Schaar

Research on generalization bounds for deep networks seeks to give ways to predict test error using just the training dataset and the network parameters. While generalization bounds can give many insights about architecture design, training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Yi Zhang , Arushi Gupta , Nikunj Saunshi , Sanjeev Arora

Although GAN-based methods have received many achievements in the last few years, they have not been entirelysuccessful in generating discrete data. The most crucial challenge of these methods is the difficulty of passing the gradientfrom…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Ehsan Montahaei , Danial Alihosseini , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah
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