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Smartwatch health sensor data are increasingly utilized in smart health applications and patient monitoring, including stress detection. However, such medical data often comprise sensitive personal information and are resource-intensive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Nils Wenzlitschke , Erhard Rahm

Sharing medical data for machine learning model training purposes is often impossible due to the risk of disclosing identifying information about individual patients. Synthetic data produced by generative artificial intelligence (genAI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Rustam Zhumagambetov , Niklas Giesa , Sebastian D. Boie , Stefan Haufe

Limited data access is a longstanding barrier to data-driven research and development in the networked systems community. In this work, we explore if and how generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to incentivize data sharing by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zinan Lin , Alankar Jain , Chen Wang , Giulia Fanti , Vyas Sekar

Deep learning models have demonstrated superior performance in several application problems, such as image classification and speech processing. However, creating a deep learning model using health record data requires addressing certain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Amirsina Torfi , Edward A. Fox , Chandan K. Reddy

In this work, we develop a privacy-by-design generative model for synthesizing the activity diary of the travel population using state-of-art deep learning approaches. This proposed approach extends literature on population synthesis by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq , Zachary Patterson

Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to enhance the usefulness of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) by generating realistic de-identified data. However, the existing literature primarily focuses on the quality of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Resmi Ramachandranpillai , Md Fahim Sikder , David Bergström , Fredrik Heintz

The recent availability of electronic health records (EHRs) have provided enormous opportunities to develop artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms. However, patient privacy has become a major concern that limits data sharing across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Jin Li , Benjamin J. Cairns , Jingsong Li , Tingting Zhu

Sensitive medical data is often subject to strict usage constraints. In this paper, we trained a generative adversarial network (GAN) on real-world electronic health records (EHR). It was then used to create a data-set of "fake" patients…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 John Weldon , Tomas Ward , Eoin Brophy

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have been integrated into all aspects of our lives and the privacy of personal data has attracted more and more attention. Since the generation of the model needs to extract the effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Ruikang Yang , Jianfeng Ma , Yinbin Miao , Xindi Ma

Machine Learning (ML) has achieved enormous success in solving a variety of problems in computer vision, speech recognition, object detection, to name a few. The principal reason for this success is the availability of huge datasets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Efstathia Soufleri , Gobinda Saha , Kaushik Roy

Synthetic tabular data generation has emerged as a promising method to address limited data availability and privacy concerns. With the sharp increase in the performance of large language models in recent years, researchers have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Reilly Cannon , Nicolette M. Laird , Caesar Vazquez , Andy Lin , Amy Wagler , Tony Chiang

Background: Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution for sharing anonymized versions of sensitive biomedical datasets. Ideally, synthetic data should preserve the structure and statistical properties of the original data, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ileana Montoya Perez , Parisa Movahedi , Valtteri Nieminen , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala

Quantization is a widely adopted technique for deep neural networks to reduce the memory and computational resources required. However, when quantized, most models would need a suitable calibration process to keep their performance intact,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Athanasios Masouris , Mansi Sharma , Adrian Boguszewski , Alexander Kozlov , Zhuo Wu , Raymond Lo

The switch from a Model-Centric to a Data-Centric mindset is putting emphasis on data and its quality rather than algorithms, bringing forward new challenges. In particular, the sensitive nature of the information in highly regulated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Giorgio Visani , Giacomo Graffi , Mattia Alfero , Enrico Bagli , Davide Capuzzo , Federico Chesani

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have shown promising results in generating synthetic data. However, the issues with GANs are: (i) the learning happens around the training samples and the model often ends up remembering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Saurabh Gupta , Arun Balaji Buduru , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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…

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

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

In this study, we explore the growing potential of AI and deep learning technologies, particularly Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and Large Language Models (LLMs), for generating synthetic tabular data. Access to quality students…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Mohammad Khalil , Sam Urmian , Ronas Shakya , Qinyi Liu

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…