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When machine learning models are trained on synthetic data and then deployed on real data, there is often a performance drop due to the distribution shift between synthetic and real data. In this paper, we introduce a new ensemble strategy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Haoyuan Sun , Navid Azizan , Akash Srivastava , Hao Wang

Realistic synthetic tabular data generation encounters significant challenges in preserving privacy, especially when dealing with sensitive information in domains like finance and healthcare. In this paper, we introduce \textit{Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

When it comes to preserving privacy in medical machine learning, two important considerations are (1) keeping data local to the institution and (2) avoiding inference of sensitive information from the trained model. These are often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Dominik Fay , Jens Sjölund , Tobias J. Oechtering

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn considerable attention in recent years for their proven capability in generating synthetic data which can be utilised for multiple purposes. While GANs have demonstrated tremendous successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Abdallah Alshantti , Damiano Varagnolo , Adil Rasheed , Aria Rahmati , Frank Westad

Applying machine learning (ML) to sensitive domains requires privacy protection of the underlying training data through formal privacy frameworks, such as differential privacy (DP). Yet, usually, the privacy of the training data comes at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Franziska Boenisch , Christopher Mühl , Roy Rinberg , Jannis Ihrig , Adam Dziedzic

Synthetic data generation becomes prevalent as a solution to privacy leakage and data shortage. Generative models are designed to generate a realistic synthetic dataset, which can precisely express the data distribution for the real…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Bingyang Wen , Luis Oliveros Colon , K. P. Subbalakshmi , R. Chandramouli

As privacy regulations become more stringent and access to real-world data becomes increasingly constrained, synthetic data generation has emerged as a vital solution, especially for tabular datasets, which are central to domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Raju Challagundla , Mohsen Dorodchi , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee

The rapid adoption of machine learning has increased concerns about the privacy implications of machine learning models trained on sensitive data, such as medical records or other personal information. To address those concerns, one…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-27 Nicolas Papernot , Shuang Song , Ilya Mironov , Ananth Raghunathan , Kunal Talwar , Úlfar Erlingsson

Tabular data synthesis has received wide attention in the literature. This is because available data is often limited, incomplete, or cannot be obtained easily, and data privacy is becoming increasingly important. In this work, we present a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Jaehoon Lee , Jihyeon Hyeong , Jinsung Jeon , Noseong Park , Jihoon Cho

Deep learning holds immense promise for aiding radiologists in breast cancer detection. However, achieving optimal model performance is hampered by limitations in availability and sharing of data commonly associated to patient privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Richard Osuala , Daniel M. Lang , Anneliese Riess , Georgios Kaissis , Zuzanna Szafranowska , Grzegorz Skorupko , Oliver Diaz , Julia A. Schnabel , Karim Lekadir

In this paper, we introduce a novel quantum generative model for synthesizing tabular data. Synthetic data is valuable in scenarios where real-world data is scarce or private, it can be used to augment or replace existing datasets.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Pallavi Bhardwaj , Caitlin Jones , Lasse Dierich , Aleksandar Vučković

The utility of tabular data for tasks ranging from model training to large-scale data analysis is often constrained by privacy concerns or regulatory hurdles. While existing data generation methods, particularly those based on Generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tu Anh Hoang Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Tri-Nhan Vo , Thuc Duy Le , Sunil Gupta

Synthetic data generation is a fundamental task for many data management and data science applications. Spatial data is of particular interest, and its sensitive nature often leads to privacy concerns. We introduce GeoPointGAN, a novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Teddy Cunningham , Konstantin Klemmer , Hongkai Wen , Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu

We present a novel approach for differentially private data synthesis of protected tabular datasets, a relevant task in highly sensitive domains such as healthcare and government. Current state-of-the-art methods predominantly use…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Konstantin Donhauser , Javier Abad , Neha Hulkund , Fanny Yang

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

The advent of location-based services has led to the widespread adoption of indoor localization systems, which enable location tracking of individuals within enclosed spaces such as buildings. While these systems provide numerous benefits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Vahideh Moghtadaiee , Mina Alishahi , Milad Rabiei

Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) and its variants have shown promising results in generating synthetic data. However, the issues with GANs are: (i) the learning happens around the training samples and the model often ends up remembering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Saurabh Gupta , Arun Balaji Buduru , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

Training generative machine learning models to produce synthetic tabular data has become a popular approach for enhancing privacy in data sharing. As this typically involves processing sensitive personal information, releasing either the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Georgi Ganev , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Generating tabular data under differential privacy (DP) protection ensures theoretical privacy guarantees but poses challenges for training machine learning models, primarily due to the need to capture complex structures under noisy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Tejumade Afonja , Hui-Po Wang , Raouf Kerkouche , Mario Fritz

Process data with confidential information cannot be shared directly in public, which hinders the research in process data mining and analytics. Data encryption methods have been studied to protect the data, but they still may be decrypted,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Keyi Li , Sen Yang , Travis M. Sullivan , Randall S. Burd , Ivan Marsic