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Diferentially private (DP) synthetic datasets are a powerful approach for training machine learning models while respecting the privacy of individual data providers. The effect of DP on the fairness of the resulting trained models is not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-21 Mayana Pereira , Meghana Kshirsagar , Sumit Mukherjee , Rahul Dodhia , Juan Lavista Ferres

Differential Privacy (DP) is a family of definitions that bound the worst-case privacy leakage of a mechanism. One important feature of the worst-case DP guarantee is it naturally implies protections against adversaries with less prior…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Marika Swanberg , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Jamie Hayes , Borja Balle , Adam Smith

Statistical agencies utilize models to synthesize respondent-level data for release to the public for privacy protection. In this work, we efficiently induce privacy protection into any Bayesian synthesis model by employing a pseudo…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-06-02 Jingchen Hu , Terrance D. Savitsky , Matthew R. Williams

Techniques to deliver privacy-preserving synthetic datasets take a sensitive dataset as input and produce a similar dataset as output while maintaining differential privacy. These approaches have the potential to improve data sharing and…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-24 Luke Rodriguez , Bill Howe

Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation (PP-SDG) has emerged to produce synthetic datasets from personal data while maintaining privacy and utility. Differential privacy (DP) is the property of a PP-SDG mechanism that establishes how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Frederik Marinus Trudslev , Matteo Lissandrini , Juan Manuel Rodriguez , Martin Bøgsted , Daniele Dell'Aglio

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

Differential privacy (DP) enables private data analysis. In a typical DP deployment, controllers manage individuals' sensitive data and are responsible for answering analysts' queries while protecting individuals' privacy. They do so by…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhiru Zhu , Raul Castro Fernandez

Differential Privacy (DP) has emerged as a robust framework for privacy-preserving data releases and has been successfully applied in high-profile cases, such as the 2020 US Census. However, in organizational settings, the use of DP remains…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Nicolas Küchler , Alexander Viand , Hidde Lycklama , Anwar Hithnawi

Data engineering often requires accuracy (utility) constraints on results, posing significant challenges in designing differentially private (DP) mechanisms, particularly under stringent privacy parameter $\epsilon$. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Bo Jiang , Wanrong Zhang , Donghang Lu , Jian Du , Sagar Sharma , Qiang Yan

Many differentially private (DP) data release systems either output DP synthetic data and leave analysts to perform inference as usual, which can lead to severe miscalibration, or output a DP point estimate without a principled way to do…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Amir Asiaee , Samhita Pal

Differential Privacy (DP) provides an elegant mathematical framework for defining a provable disclosure risk in the presence of arbitrary adversaries; it guarantees that whether an individual is in a database or not, the results of a DP…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Aleksandra Slavkovic , Roberto Molinari

Releasing full data records is one of the most challenging problems in data privacy. On the one hand, many of the popular techniques such as data de-identification are problematic because of their dependence on the background knowledge of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Vincent Bindschaedler , Reza Shokri , Carl A. Gunter

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

Machine learning models trained with differentially-private (DP) algorithms such as DP-SGD enjoy resilience against a wide range of privacy attacks. Although it is possible to derive bounds for some attacks based solely on an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Giovanni Cherubin , Boris Köpf , Andrew Paverd , Shruti Tople , Lukas Wutschitz , Santiago Zanella-Béguelin

Training data is fundamental to the success of modern machine learning models, yet in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, the use of real-world training data is severely constrained by concerns over privacy leakage. A promising solution…

Differentially private (DP) mechanisms protect individual-level information by introducing randomness into the statistical analysis procedure. Despite the availability of numerous DP tools, there remains a lack of general techniques for…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-25 Zhanyu Wang , Guang Cheng , Jordan Awan

Differentially Private (DP) generative marginal models are often used in the wild to release synthetic tabular datasets in lieu of sensitive data while providing formal privacy guarantees. These models approximate low-dimensional marginals…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Georgi Ganev , Meenatchi Sundaram Muthu Selva Annamalai , Sofiane Mahiou , Emiliano De Cristofaro

To resolve the acute problem of privacy protection and guarantee that data can be used in the context of threat intelligence, this paper considers the implementation of Differential Privacy (DP) in cybersecurity analytics. DP, which is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Brahim Khalil Sedraoui , Abdelmadjid Benmachiche , Amina Makhlouf , Chaouki Chemam

Differential privacy allows quantifying privacy loss resulting from accessing sensitive personal data. Repeated accesses to underlying data incur increasing loss. Releasing data as privacy-preserving synthetic data would avoid this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-10 Joonas Jälkö , Eemil Lagerspetz , Jari Haukka , Sasu Tarkoma , Antti Honkela , Samuel Kaski

This paper investigates differentially private analysis of distance-based outliers. The problem of outlier detection is to find a small number of instances that are apparently distant from the remaining instances. On the other hand, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-28 Rina Okada , Kazuto Fukuchi , Kazuya Kakizaki , Jun Sakuma