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Synthetic data generation, leveraging generative machine learning techniques, offers a promising approach to mitigating privacy concerns associated with real-world data usage. Synthetic data closely resembles real-world data while…

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This work presents a systematic benchmark of differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms that can generate tabular data. Utility of the synthetic data is evaluated by measuring whether the synthetic data preserve the…

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Privacy poses a significant obstacle to the progress of learning analytics (LA), presenting challenges like inadequate anonymization and data misuse that current solutions struggle to address. Synthetic data emerges as a potential remedy,…

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Hiek Van der Scheer , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

We introduce the DP-auto-GAN framework for synthetic data generation, which combines the low dimensional representation of autoencoders with the flexibility of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This framework can be used to take in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Uthaipon Tantipongpipat , Chris Waites , Digvijay Boob , Amaresh Ankit Siva , Rachel Cummings

Data synthesis has been advocated as an important approach for utilizing data while protecting data privacy. In recent years, a plethora of tabular data synthesis algorithms (i.e., synthesizers) have been proposed. Some synthesizers satisfy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuntao Du , Ninghui Li

Tabular data is one of the most prevalent and important data formats in real-world applications such as healthcare, finance, and education. However, its effective use in machine learning is often constrained by data scarcity, privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Ruxue Shi , Yili Wang , Mengnan Du , Xu Shen , Yi Chang , Xin Wang

Despite the remarkable success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on text, images, and videos, generating high-quality tabular data is still under development owing to some unique challenges such as capturing dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Chang Sun , Johan van Soest , Michel Dumontier

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving data analytics in various domains necessitates solutions for synthetic data generation that rigorously uphold privacy standards. We introduce the DP-FedTabDiff framework, a novel integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Synthetic financial data provides a practical solution to the privacy, accessibility, and reproducibility challenges that often constrain empirical research in quantitative finance. This paper investigates the use of deep generative models,…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-30 Christophe D. Hounwanou , Yae Ulrich Gaba

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) can produce synthetic data while reducing privacy risks. However, navigating their privacy-utility tradeoffs makes finding the best models for specific settings/tasks challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Georgi Ganev , Kai Xu , Emiliano De Cristofaro

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…

Synthetic Data is increasingly important in financial applications. In addition to the benefits it provides, such as improved financial modeling and better testing procedures, it poses privacy risks as well. Such data may arise from client…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Tucker Balch , Vamsi K. Potluru , Deepak Paramanand , Manuela Veloso

Synthetic data has been hailed as the silver bullet for privacy preserving data analysis. If a record is not real, then how could it violate a person's privacy? In addition, deep-learning based generative models are employed successfully to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Benedikt Groß , Gerhard Wunder

Machine learning practitioners frequently seek to leverage the most informative available data, without violating the data owner's privacy, when building predictive models. Differentially private data synthesis protects personal details…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Lucas Rosenblatt , Xiaoyan Liu , Samira Pouyanfar , Eduardo de Leon , Anuj Desai , Joshua Allen

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are one of the well-known models to generate synthetic data including images, especially for research communities that cannot use original sensitive datasets because they are not publicly accessible.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Reihaneh Torkzadehmahani , Peter Kairouz , Benedict Paten

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

Synthetic data has been advertised as a silver-bullet solution to privacy-preserving data publishing that addresses the shortcomings of traditional anonymisation techniques. The promise is that synthetic data drawn from generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Theresa Stadler , Bristena Oprisanu , Carmela Troncoso

Generating high-fidelity synthetic tabular data under formal differential privacy guarantees remains an open challenge. Methods that provide strong theoretical protection typically sacrifice the modeling of inter-feature dependencies…

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