arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9
Disjoint Generation of Synthetic Data
arXiv:2507. 19700v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose a new framework for generating tabular synthetic datasets via disjoint generative models.
LLM-as-a-Discriminator: When Synthetic Tables Still Look Real
arXiv:2606. 09865v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Privacy and data sharing are often in tension.
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arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9
SoK: Reconstruction Attacks on Synthetic Tabular Data (Insights from Winning the NIST CRC)
arXiv:2606. 08372v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Synthetic data is increasingly promoted as a privacy-preserving substitute for releasing sensitive tabular records, yet its central adversarial threat ("reconstruction", the recovery of an individual's hidden attribute values from a synthetic release and a handful of known quasi-identifiers) has been studied only in scattered, hard-to-compare settings.
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 1
Creation begins with understanding: LLMs as strategy designers for privacy-preserving tabular data synthesis
arXiv:2608.29674v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sharing tabular data in high-stakes domains is constrained by privacy regulations. Synthetic data offer a promising alternative, but deep generative mo...
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11
Quantifying Membership Disclosure Risk for Tabular Synthetic Data Using Kernel Density Estimators
arXiv:2603. 10937v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The use of synthetic data has become increasingly popular as a privacy-preserving alternative to sharing real datasets, especially in sensitive domains such as healthcare, finance, and demography.
arXiv AI
Jul 22
Phantoms and Disclosures: A Statistical Framework for Auditing Privacy in Synthetic Data
arXiv:2606. 16952v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred interest in synthetic data as a privacy-preserving alternative to sensitive real-world datasets.
arXiv Machine Learning
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Rethinking Anonymity Claims in Synthetic Data Generation: A Model-Centric Privacy Attack Perspective
The paper argues that evaluating anonymity in synthetic data generation must focus on the generative model rather than just the resulting dataset. It interprets GDPR definitions of personal data and anonymization under realistic model-access scenarios, mapping these to state‑of‑the‑art privacy attacks. The authors conclude that synthetic data alone is insufficient for anonymization, and that Differential Privacy offers stronger protection than Similarity‑based Privacy Metrics.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8
SecretFan: Synthesizing Realistic Data without Breaking Privacy
arXiv:2602. 05833v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
Phantoms and Disclosures: a Causal Framework for Auditing Synthetic Data
arXiv:2606. 16952v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) has spurred interest in synthetic data as a privacy-preserving alternative to sensitive real-world datasets.
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 31
ProfileFoundry: A Synthetic Person-Object Substrate for Privacy, Memory, and Tool-Use Evaluation in LLM Agent
arXiv:2606.26403v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Foundation-model research increasingly needs data about people: user state, personal histories, relationships, contact-like fields, documents, and...
arXiv AI
Jun 10
Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Empirical Privacy Auditing
arXiv:2606. 10481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) can exhibit problematic memorization of individual training examples.
arXiv AI
Jul 9
Where to Intervene? Benchmarking Fairness-Aware Learning on Differentially Private Synthetic Tabular Data
arXiv:2607. 07471v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine learning models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, raising concerns about both privacy and fairness.
arXiv AI
Jul 13
How to DP-fy Your Data: A Practical Guide to Generating Synthetic Data With Differential Privacy
arXiv:2512. 03238v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High quality data is needed to unlock the full potential of AI for end users.