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Synthetic data generation has become essential for securely sharing and analyzing sensitive data sets. Traditional anonymization techniques, however, often fail to adequately preserve privacy. We introduce the Tabular Auto-Regressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Andrey Sidorenko , Paul Tiwald

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

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) advance face synthesis through learning the underlying distribution of observed data. Despite the high-quality generated faces, some minority groups can be rarely generated from the trained models due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Shuhan Tan , Yujun Shen , Bolei Zhou

Insufficient training data is a major bottleneck for most deep learning practices, not least in medical imaging where data is difficult to collect and publicly available datasets are scarce due to ethics and privacy. This work investigates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Gabriel Eilertsen , Apostolia Tsirikoglou , Claes Lundström , Jonas Unger

Access to individual-level health data is essential for gaining new insights and advancing science. In particular, modern methods based on artificial intelligence rely on the availability of and access to large datasets. In the health…

This paper introduces a machine learning-based approach to synthetically creating realistic phasor measurement unit (PMU) data streams of multiple transient types. In contrast to the existing literature of transient simulation-based data…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-08 Xiangtian Zheng , Bin Wang , Dileep Kalathil , Le Xie

The dissemination of synthetic data can be an effective means of making information from sensitive data publicly available while reducing the risk of disclosure associated with releasing the sensitive data directly. While mechanisms exist…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-09-23 Harrison Quick

The scarcity of accessible, compliant, and ethically sourced data presents a considerable challenge to the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in sensitive fields like healthcare, finance, and biomedical research. Furthermore, access…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Kumar Kshitij Patel , Weitong Zhang , Lingxiao Wang

Generative AI offers transformative potential for high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, yet privacy and regulatory barriers hinder the use of real-world data. To address this, differentially private synthetic data generation…

Tabular Generative Models are often argued to preserve privacy by creating synthetic datasets that resemble training data. However, auditing their empirical privacy remains challenging, as commonly used similarity metrics fail to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Joshua Ward , Xiaofeng Lin , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown immense potential in fields such as text and image generation. Only very recently attempts to exploit GANs to statistical-mechanics models have been reported. Here we quantitatively test…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-07 Daniele Lanzoni , Olivier Pierre-Louis , Francesco Montalenti

The use of synthetic data in machine learning applications and research offers many benefits, including performance improvements through data augmentation, privacy preservation of original samples, and reliable method assessment with fully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Joanna Komorniczak

Artificial intelligence and data access are already mainstream. One of the main challenges when designing an artificial intelligence or disclosing content from a database is preserving the privacy of individuals who participate in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Clément Pierquin , Bastien Zimmermann , Matthieu Boussard

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have been shown to produce realistic samples from high-dimensional distributions, but training them is considered hard. A possible explanation for training instabilities is the inherent imbalance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-12 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Giambattista Parascandolo , Arash Mehrjou , Bernhard Schölkopf

This work provides a solution to the challenge of small amounts of training data in Non-Destructive Ultrasonic Testing for composite components. It was demonstrated that direct simulation alone is ineffective at producing training data that…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-06 Shaun McKnight , S. Gareth Pierce , Ehsan Mohseni , Christopher MacKinnon , Charles MacLeod , Tom OHare , Charalampos Loukas

Synthetic data has been widely applied in the real world recently. One typical example is the creation of synthetic data for privacy concerned datasets. In this scenario, synthetic data substitute the real data which contains the privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Ling , Tim Menzies , Christopher Hazard , Jack Shu , Jacob Beel

Real-world data often exhibits bias, imbalance, and privacy risks. Synthetic datasets have emerged to address these issues. This paradigm relies on generative AI models to generate unbiased, privacy-preserving data while maintaining…

Datasets of different characteristics are needed by the research community for experimental purposes. However, real data may be difficult to obtain due to privacy concerns. Moreover, real data may not meet specific characteristics which are…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-15 Vanessa Ayala-Rivera , Patrick McDonagh , Thomas Cerqueus , Liam Murphy

Performing supervised learning from the data synthesized by using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), dubbed GAN-synthetic data, has two important applications. First, GANs may generate more labeled training data, which may help improve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Fu-Chieh Chang , Hao-Jen Wang , Chun-Nan Chou , Edward Y. Chang

Sharing sensitive data is vital in enabling many modern data analysis and machine learning tasks. However, current methods for data release are insufficiently accurate or granular to provide meaningful utility, and they carry a high risk of…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Teddy Cunningham , Graham Cormode , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu