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most citedUsing GANs for Sharing Networked Time Series Data: Challenges, Initial Promise, and Open Questions

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cs.LG2025

Differentially Private Synthetic Data via APIs 3: Using Simulators Instead of Foundation Model

Zinan Lin, Tadas Baltrusaitis, Wenyu Wang +1

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data enables the use of sensitive datasets while providing strong privacy guarantees. Recently, Private Evolution (PE) has emerged as a promis…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Efficient Expert Pruning for Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Language Models: Enhancing Performance and Reducing Inference Costs

Enshu Liu, Junyi Zhu, Zinan Lin +6

The rapid advancement of large language models (LLMs) has led to architectures with billions to trillions of parameters, posing significant deployment challenges due to their subst…

cs.LG2023★ 7 cited

Mixture-of-Linear-Experts for Long-term Time Series Forecasting

Ronghao Ni, Zinan Lin, Shuaiqi Wang +1

Long-term time series forecasting (LTSF) aims to predict future values of a time series given the past values. The current state-of-the-art (SOTA) on this problem is attained in so…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Privacy-Preserving In-Context Learning with Differentially Private Few-Shot Generation

Xinyu Tang, Richard Shin, Huseyin A. Inan +6

We study the problem of in-context learning (ICL) with large language models (LLMs) on private datasets. This scenario poses privacy risks, as LLMs may leak or regurgitate the priv…

cs.LG2023★ 6 cited

OMS-DPM: Optimizing the Model Schedule for Diffusion Probabilistic Models

Enshu Liu, Xuefei Ning, Zinan Lin +2

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) are a new class of generative models that have achieved state-of-the-art generation quality in various domains. Despite the promise, one major…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Selective Pre-training for Private Fine-tuning

Da Yu, Sivakanth Gopi, Janardhan Kulkarni +5

Text prediction models, when used in applications like email clients or word processors, must protect user data privacy and adhere to model size constraints. These constraints are…

cs.LG2022★ 5 cited

On the Privacy Properties of GAN-generated Samples

Zinan Lin, Vyas Sekar, Giulia Fanti

The privacy implications of generative adversarial networks (GANs) are a topic of great interest, leading to several recent algorithms for training GANs with privacy guarantees. By…

cs.LG2022

RareGAN: Generating Samples for Rare Classes

Zinan Lin, Hao Liang, Giulia Fanti +1

We study the problem of learning generative adversarial networks (GANs) for a rare class of an unlabeled dataset subject to a labeling budget. This problem is motivated from practi…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

Pareto GAN: Extending the Representational Power of GANs to Heavy-Tailed Distributions

Todd Huster, Jeremy E. J. Cohen, Zinan Lin +5

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are often billed as "universal distribution learners", but precisely what distributions they can represent and learn is still an open questio…

cs.LG2020★ 28 cited

Why Spectral Normalization Stabilizes GANs: Analysis and Improvements

Zinan Lin, Vyas Sekar, Giulia Fanti

Spectral normalization (SN) is a widely-used technique for improving the stability and sample quality of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). However, there is currently limited…

cs.LG2019★ 198 cited

Using GANs for Sharing Networked Time Series Data: Challenges, Initial Promise, and Open Questions

Zinan Lin, Alankar Jain, Chen Wang +2

Limited data access is a longstanding barrier to data-driven research and development in the networked systems community. In this work, we explore if and how generative adversarial…

cs.LG2019★ 43 cited

InfoGAN-CR and ModelCentrality: Self-supervised Model Training and Selection for Disentangling GANs

Zinan Lin, Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil, Giulia Fanti +1

Disentangled generative models map a latent code vector to a target space, while enforcing that a subset of the learned latent codes are interpretable and associated with distinct…

cs.LG2017

PacGAN: The power of two samples in generative adversarial networks

Zinan Lin, Ashish Khetan, Giulia Fanti +1

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) are innovative techniques for learning generative models of complex data distributions from samples. Despite remarkable recent improvements i…