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Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a promising technique for utilizing private datasets that otherwise cannot be exposed for model training or other analytics. While much research literature has focused on generating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Shuaiqi Wang , Vikas Raunak , Arturs Backurs , Victor Reis , Pei Zhou , Sihao Chen , Longqi Yang , Zinan Lin , Sergey Yekhanin , Giulia Fanti

Autoregressive and Masked Transformers are incredibly effective as generative models and classifiers. While these models are most prevalent in NLP, they also exhibit strong performance in other domains, such as vision. This work contributes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Manbir S Gulati , Paul F Roysdon

Deep neural networks often use large, high-quality datasets to achieve high performance on many machine learning tasks. When training involves potentially sensitive data, this process can raise privacy concerns, as large models have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Felix Zhou , Samson Zhou , Vahab Mirrokni , Alessandro Epasto , Vincent Cohen-Addad

Synthetic text generation with Differential Privacy (DP) guarantees emerges as a principled approach that can enable the sharing of sensitive datasets across institutional and regulatory boundaries, while bounding the risks of…

Dataset distillation (DD) compresses large datasets into smaller ones while preserving the performance of models trained on them. Although DD is often assumed to enhance data privacy by aggregating over individual examples, recent studies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shuo Shi , Jinghuai Zhang , Shijie Jiang , Chunyi Zhou , Yuyuan Li , Mengying Zhu , Yangyang Wu , Tianyu Du

While massive valuable deep models trained on large-scale data have been released to facilitate the artificial intelligence community, they may encounter attacks in deployment which leads to privacy leakage of training data. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-04 Bochao Liu , Pengju Wang , Shikun Li , Dan Zeng , Shiming Ge

We consider the problem of generating private synthetic versions of real-world graphs containing private information while maintaining the utility of generated graphs. Differential privacy is a gold standard for data privacy, and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Xu Zheng , Nicholas McCarthy , Jer Hayes

As the utilization of network traces for the network measurement research becomes increasingly prevalent, concerns regarding privacy leakage from network traces have garnered the public's attention. To safeguard network traces, researchers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Danyu Sun , Joann Qiongna Chen , Chen Gong , Tianhao Wang , Zhou Li

The Private Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles (PATE) framework is one of the most promising recent approaches in differentially private learning. Existing theoretical analysis shows that PATE consistently learns any VC-classes in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Chong Liu , Yuqing Zhu , Kamalika Chaudhuri , Yu-Xiang Wang

The generation of synthetic medical records using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is becoming crucial for addressing privacy concerns and facilitating data sharing in the medical domain. In this paper, we introduce a novel method to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-20 Tomohiro Kikuchi , Shouhei Hanaoka , Takahiro Nakao , Tomomi Takenaga , Yukihiro Nomura , Harushi Mori , Takeharu Yoshikawa

The widespread adoption of dynamic Time-of-Use (dToU) electricity tariffs requires accurately identifying households that would benefit from such pricing structures. However, the use of real consumption data poses serious privacy concerns,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Andre Catarino , Rui Melo , Rui Abreu , Luis Cruz

We introduce behavioral fidelity -- a third evaluation dimension for synthetic tabular data that measures whether generated data preserves the temporal, sequential, and structural behavioral patterns that distinguish real-world entity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Bhavana Sajja

Creation of synthetic data models has represented a significant advancement across diverse scientific fields, but this technology also brings important privacy considerations for users. This work focuses on enhancing a non-parametric…

This paper introduces a novel generative adversarial network (GAN) for synthesizing large-scale tabular databases which contain various features such as continuous, discrete, and binary. Technically, our GAN belongs to the category of…

Differential privacy (DP) provides rigorous privacy guarantees on individual's data while also allowing for accurate statistics to be conducted on the overall, sensitive dataset. To design a private system, first private algorithms must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Mark Cesar , Ryan Rogers

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) can be used to generate synthetic data while minimizing privacy risks. We analyze the impact of DP on these models vis-a-vis underrepresented classes/subgroups of data, specifically,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Georgi Ganev , Bristena Oprisanu , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Training generative adversarial networks (GANs) with limited data is challenging because the discriminator is prone to overfitting. Previously proposed differentiable augmentation demonstrates improved data efficiency of training GANs.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Liang Hou , Qi Cao , Yige Yuan , Songtao Zhao , Chongyang Ma , Siyuan Pan , Pengfei Wan , Zhongyuan Wang , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

Differential privacy (DP) provides a mathematical guarantee limiting what an adversary can learn about any individual from released data. However, achieving this protection typically requires adding noise, and noise can accumulate when many…

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

Deep generative models can help with data scarcity and privacy by producing synthetic training data, but they struggle in low-data, imbalanced tabular settings to fully learn the complex data distribution. We argue that striving for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-12 Xiaofeng Lin , Seungbae Kim , Zhuoya Li , Zachary DeSoto , Charles Fleming , Guang Cheng

Differential privacy (DP) is increasingly used to protect the release of hierarchical, tabular population data, such as census data. A common approach for implementing DP in this setting is to release noisy responses to a predefined set of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Aadyaa Maddi , Swadhin Routray , Alexander Goldberg , Giulia Fanti