arXiv Machine Learning June 8, 2026 By Laura Plein, Alexi Turcotte, Arina Hallemans, Andreas Zeller

SecretFan: Synthesizing Realistic Data without Breaking Privacy

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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.

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