arXiv Machine Learning

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 Machine Learning
Jul 16

When T2I Synthetic Data Backfires: Amplified Privacy Risks in Real-Synthetic Mix Training

arXiv:2607. 13541v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To overcome data scarcity and privacy constraints in data collection, it has become standard practice across academia and industry to augment real training data with text-to-image (T2I)-generated synthetic data, a paradigm we term Real-Synthetic Mix-Training (RSMT).

By Na Li, Boyu Kuang, Hongsheng Hu, Liquan Chen, Hyoungshick Kim, Yansong Gao, Anmin Fu
arXiv AI
Jun 18

PSyGenTAB: A Privacy-Preserving Framework for Synthetic Clinical Tabular Data Generation via Constrained Optimization

arXiv:2606. 18518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development of medical AI is constrained by limited access to high-quality clinical data due to institutional silos and strict privacy regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR.

By Arshia Ilaty, Hossein Shirazi, Manasi Chitale, Kedar Hegde, Dhanalakshmi Ramesh, Rashmi S. Manjunath, Amir Rahmani, Hajar Homayouni
arXiv AI
Jul 21

A Survey on Unlearnable Data

arXiv:2503. 23536v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlearnable data (ULD) has emerged as an innovative defense technique to prevent machine learning models from learning meaningful patterns from specific data, thus protecting data privacy and security.

By Jiahao Li, Yiqiang Chen, Yunbing Xing, Yang Gu, Xiangyuan Lan
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.

By Anton Danholt Lautrup, Muhammad Rajabinasab, Tobias Hyrup, Arthur Zimek, Peter Schneider-Kamp
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.

By Steven Golob, Sikha Pentyala, Martine De Cock