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Differentially private synthetic data generation offers a recent solution to release analytically useful data while preserving the privacy of individuals in the data. In order to utilize these algorithms for public policy decisions,…

Applications · Statistics 2020-10-13 Claire McKay Bowen , Joshua Snoke

This paper provides a detailed survey of synthetic data techniques. We first discuss the expected goals of using synthetic data in data augmentation, which can be divided into four parts: 1) Improving Diversity, 2) Data Balancing, 3)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Hsin-Yu Chang , Pei-Yu Chen , Tun-Hsiang Chou , Chang-Sheng Kao , Hsuan-Yun Yu , Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

As the prevalence of data analysis grows, safeguarding data privacy has become a paramount concern. Consequently, there has been an upsurge in the development of mechanisms aimed at privacy-preserving data analyses. However, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Yuzheng Hu , Fan Wu , Qinbin Li , Yunhui Long , Gonzalo Munilla Garrido , Chang Ge , Bolin Ding , David Forsyth , Bo Li , Dawn Song

Synthetic tabular data enables sharing and analysis of sensitive records, but its practical deployment requires balancing distributional fidelity, downstream utility, and privacy protection. We study a simple, model agnostic post processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 David Yavo , Richard Khoury , Christophe Pere , Sadoune Ait Kaci Azzou

Synthetic data generation offers promise for addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns in educational technology, yet practitioners lack empirical guidance for selecting between traditional resampling techniques and modern deep learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tapiwa Amion Chinodakufa , Ashfaq Ali Shafin , Khandaker Mamun Ahmed

Differential privacy (DP) has been accepted as a rigorous criterion for measuring the privacy protection offered by random mechanisms used to obtain statistics or, as we will study here, synthetic datasets from confidential data. Methods to…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-09 Leila Nombo , Anne-Sophie Charest

Data sharing is a prerequisite for collaborative innovation, enabling organizations to leverage diverse datasets for deeper insights. In real-world applications like FinTech and Smart Manufacturing, transactional data, often in tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mengmeng Yang , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jie Feng , Taolin Guo , Wei Ni

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

Data privacy is an increasingly important aspect of many real-world Data sources that contain sensitive information may have immense potential which could be unlocked using the right privacy enhancing transformations, but current methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-09 John Martinsson , Edvin Listo Zec , Daniel Gillblad , Olof Mogren

The need to analyze sensitive data, such as medical records or financial data, has created a critical research challenge in recent years. In this paper, we adopt the framework of differential privacy, and explore mechanisms for generating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Nikolija Bojkovic , Po-Ling Loh

Many ground-breaking advancements in machine learning can be attributed to the availability of a large volume of rich data. Unfortunately, many large-scale datasets are highly sensitive, such as healthcare data, and are not widely available…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-09 James Jordon , Alan Wilson , Mihaela van der Schaar

In recent years, the growth of data across various sectors, including healthcare, security, finance, and education, has created significant opportunities for analysis and informed decision-making. However, these datasets often contain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-30 Utsab Saha , Tanvir Muntakim Tonoy , Hafiz Imtiaz

Differential privacy (DP) enables safe data release, with synthetic data generation emerging as a common approach in recent years. Yet standard synthesizers preserve all dependencies in the data, including spurious correlations between…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Naeim Ghahramanpour , Mostafa Milani

Data privacy is a core tenet of responsible computing, and in the United States, differential privacy (DP) is the dominant technical operationalization of privacy-preserving data analysis. With this study, we qualitatively examine one class…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Lucas Rosenblatt , Bill Howe , Julia Stoyanovich

In decision-making problems, the actions of an agent may reveal sensitive information that drives its decisions. For instance, a corporation's investment decisions may reveal its sensitive knowledge about market dynamics. To prevent this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Parham Gohari , Matthew Hale , Ufuk Topcu

When synthetic data is released, some individuals are harder to protect than others. A patient with a rare disease combination or a transaction with unusual characteristics stands out from the crowd. Differential privacy provides worst-case…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Amir Asiaee , Chao Yan , Zachary B. Abrams , Bradley A. Malin

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

While secondary use of real-world data (RWD) in education offers substantial research opportunities, data sharing is often limited by privacy constraints. Differentially private synthetic data generation (DP-SDG) has emerged as a possible…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Hibiki Ito , Chia-Yu Hsu , Hiroaki Ogata

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

Differentially private data generation techniques have become a promising solution to the data privacy challenge -- it enables sharing of data while complying with rigorous privacy guarantees, which is essential for scientific progress in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Dingfan Chen , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz