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Tabular data generation has attracted significant research interest in recent years, with the tabular diffusion models greatly improving the quality of synthetic data. However, while memorization, where models inadvertently replicate exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhengyu Fang , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiao Li , Jing Li

User-driven privacy allows individuals to control whether and at what granularity their data is shared, leading to datasets that mix original, generalized, and missing values within the same records and attributes. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Adrian Böttinger , Victor Christen , Anushka Vidanage , Peter Christen , Erhard Rahm

Synthesizing high-quality tabular data is an important topic in many data science tasks, ranging from dataset augmentation to privacy protection. However, developing expressive generative models for tabular data is challenging due to its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Juntong Shi , Minkai Xu , Harper Hua , Hengrui Zhang , Stefano Ermon , Jure Leskovec

Adversarial examples for diffusion models are widely used as solutions for safety concerns. By adding adversarial perturbations to personal images, attackers can not edit or imitate them easily. However, it is essential to note that all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Haotian Xue , Yongxin Chen

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) pose a critical threat to the privacy of training data in deep learning. Despite significant progress in attack methodologies, our understanding of when and how models encode membership information during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuetian Chen , Zhiqi Wang , Nathalie Baracaldo , Swanand Ravindra Kadhe , Lei Yu

Hierarchical text classification consists in classifying text documents into a hierarchy of classes and sub-classes. Although artificial neural networks have proved useful to perform this task, unfortunately they can leak training data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Dominik Wunderlich , Daniel Bernau , Francesco Aldà , Javier Parra-Arnau , Thorsten Strufe

A privacy-utility tradeoff is developed for an arbitrary set of finite-alphabet source distributions. Privacy is quantified using differential privacy (DP), and utility is quantified using expected Hamming distortion maximized over the set…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Kousha Kalantari , Lalitha Sankar , Anand Sarwate

Differential privacy (DP) is the prevailing technique for protecting user data in machine learning models. However, deficits to this framework include a lack of clarity for selecting the privacy budget $\epsilon$ and a lack of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Tyler LeBlond , Joseph Munoz , Fred Lu , Maya Fuchs , Elliott Zaresky-Williams , Edward Raff , Brian Testa

Electronic Health Records (EHRs) contain sensitive patient information, which presents privacy concerns when sharing such data. Synthetic data generation is a promising solution to mitigate these risks, often relying on deep generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Taha Ceritli , Ghadeer O. Ghosheh , Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Tingting Zhu , Andrew P. Creagh , David A. Clifton

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Information leakage is becoming a critical problem as various information becomes publicly available by mistake, and machine learning models train on that data to provide services. As a result, one's private information could easily be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Geon Heo , Steven Euijong Whang

Synthetic data generation plays an important role in enabling data sharing, particularly in sensitive domains like healthcare and finance. Recent advances in diffusion models have made it possible to generate realistic, high-quality tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Eyal German , Daniel Samira , Yuval Elovici , Asaf Shabtai

Diffusion-based tabular data synthesis models have yielded promising results. However, when the data dimensionality increases, existing models tend to degenerate and may perform even worse than simpler, non-diffusion-based models. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zuqing Li , Junhao Gan , Jianzhong Qi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in generating high-quality tabular synthetic data. In practice, two primary approaches have emerged for adapting LLMs to tabular data generation: (i) fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Joshua Ward , Bochao Gu , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

Tabular foundation models (TFMs) achieve strong performance on health datasets, but their inference cost and infrastructure requirements limit practical use. We study whether their predictive behavior can be transferred to lightweight…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Aditya Tanna , Nassim Bouarour , Mohamed Bouadi , Vinay Kumar Sankarapu , Pratinav Seth

Tabular generative adversarial networks (TGAN) have recently emerged to cater to the need of synthesizing tabular data -- the most widely used data format. While synthetic tabular data offers the advantage of complying with privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Chen

Class imbalance refers to a situation where certain classes in a dataset have significantly fewer samples than oth- ers, leading to biased model performance. Class imbalance in network intrusion detection using Tabular Denoising Diffusion…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Aravind B , Anirud R. S. , Sai Surya Teja N , Bala Subrahmanya Sriranga Navaneeth A , Karthika R , Mohankumar N

Threat modeling has long guided software development work, and we consider how Public Threat Models (PTM) can convey useful security information to others. We list some early adopter precedents, explain the many benefits, address potential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Loren Kohnfelder , Adam Shostack

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown greatly enhanced performance in recent years, attributed to increased size and extensive training data. This advancement has led to widespread interest and adoption across industries and the public.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Victoria Smith , Ali Shahin Shamsabadi , Carolyn Ashurst , Adrian Weller

Diffusion models pose risks of privacy breaches and copyright disputes, primarily stemming from the potential utilization of unauthorized data during the training phase. The Training Membership Inference (TMI) task aims to determine whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Xiaomeng Fu , Xi Wang , Qiao Li , Jin Liu , Jiao Dai , Jizhong Han