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Synthetic data generation is gaining traction as a privacy enhancing technology (PET). When properly generated, synthetic data preserve the analytic utility of real data while avoiding the retention of information that would allow the…

While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) limit its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as alternative to enable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Recent advances in deep generative models have greatly expanded the potential to create realistic synthetic health datasets. These synthetic datasets aim to preserve the characteristics, patterns, and overall scientific conclusions derived…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jennifer A Bartell , Sander Boisen Valentin , Anders Krogh , Henning Langberg , Martin Bøgsted

Facial Expression Recognition faces two core challenges. The first is class imbalance in public datasets, which skews the learning process and weakens generalization. The second is related to privacy and data collection constraints, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ali Azmoudeh , Erdi Sarıtaş , Ömer Yıldırım , Hazım Kemal Ekenel

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

This paper evaluates synthetically generated healthcare data for biases and investigates the effect of fairness mitigation techniques on utility-fairness. Privacy laws limit access to health data such as Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Karan Bhanot , Ioana Baldini , Dennis Wei , Jiaming Zeng , Kristin P. Bennett

Synthetic data inherits the differential privacy guarantees of the model used to generate it. Additionally, synthetic data may benefit from privacy amplification when the generative model is kept hidden. While empirical studies suggest this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Clément Pierquin , Aurélien Bellet , Marc Tommasi , Matthieu Boussard

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used for generating synthetic data for cases where there is a limited size real-world dataset or when data holders are unwilling to share their data samples. Recent works showed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Mohammadhadi Shateri , Francisco Messina , Fabrice Labeau , Pablo Piantanida

The success of deep learning is partly attributed to the availability of massive data downloaded freely from the Internet. However, it also means that users' private data may be collected by commercial organizations without consent and used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Qi Tian , Kun Kuang , Kelu Jiang , Furui Liu , Zhihua Wang , Fei Wu

Using machine learning models to generate synthetic data has become common in many fields. Technology to generate synthetic transactions that can be used to detect fraud is also growing fast. Generally, this synthetic data contains only…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Shuo Wang , Terrence Tricco , Xianta Jiang , Charles Robertson , John Hawkin

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) became very popular for generation of realistically looking images. In this paper, we propose to use GANs to synthesize artificial financial data for research and benchmarking purposes. We test this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Dmitry Efimov , Di Xu , Luyang Kong , Alexey Nefedov , Archana Anandakrishnan

When machine learning models are trained on synthetic data and then deployed on real data, there is often a performance drop due to the distribution shift between synthetic and real data. In this paper, we introduce a new ensemble strategy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoyuan Sun , Navid Azizan , Akash Srivastava , Hao Wang

The widespread adoption of dynamic Time-of-Use (dToU) electricity tariffs requires accurately identifying households that would benefit from such pricing structures. However, the use of real consumption data poses serious privacy concerns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Andre Catarino , Rui Melo , Rui Abreu , Luis Cruz

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have significantly advanced image synthesis, however, the synthesis quality drops significantly given a limited amount of training data. To improve the data efficiency of GAN training, prior work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Ceyuan Yang , Yujun Shen , Yinghao Xu , Bolei Zhou

We propose a new framework of synthesizing data using deep generative models in a differentially private manner. Within our framework, sensitive data are sanitized with rigorous privacy guarantees in a one-shot fashion, such that training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Seng Pei Liew , Tsubasa Takahashi , Michihiko Ueno

In this paper we propose the use of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) to generate artificial training data for machine learning tasks. The generation of artificial training data can be extremely useful in situations such as imbalanced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-22 Fabio Henrique Kiyoiti dos Santos Tanaka , Claus Aranha

AI-based data synthesis has seen rapid progress over the last several years, and is increasingly recognized for its promise to enable privacy-respecting high-fidelity data sharing. However, adequately evaluating the quality of generated…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-04-02 Michael Platzer , Thomas Reutterer

Synthetic health data have the potential to mitigate privacy concerns when sharing data to support biomedical research and the development of innovative healthcare applications. Modern approaches for data generation based on machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Chao Yan , Yao Yan , Zhiyu Wan , Ziqi Zhang , Larsson Omberg , Justin Guinney , Sean D. Mooney , Bradley A. Malin

The generation of synthetic medical records using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is becoming crucial for addressing privacy concerns and facilitating data sharing in the medical domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tomohiro Kikuchi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Harushi Mori , Takeharu Yoshikawa

The lack of sufficiently large open medical databases is one of the biggest challenges in AI-powered healthcare. Synthetic data created using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) appears to be a good solution to mitigate the issues with…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-03 Sandra Carrasco Limeros , Sylwia Majchrowska , Mohamad Khir Zoubi , Anna Rosén , Juulia Suvilehto , Lisa Sjöblom , Magnus Kjellberg