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20182026
most citedPrivFairFL: Privacy-Preserving Group Fairness in Federated Learning

13 citations · 33 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.CR2026

Membership Inference Attack on Private Evolution

Daniil Filienko, Sikha Pentyala, Martine De Cock

Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) is an actively studied way to enable safe sharing of private data more broadly. Inference-only SDG methods, such as Private Evolution (PE), are part…

cs.CR2026

Federated Generation of Synthetic RNA-seq Data

Daniil Filienko, Martine De Cock, Sikha Pentyala

Access to genomic data is highly regulated due to its sensitive nature. While safeguards are essential, cumbersome data access processes pose a significant barrier to the developme…

cs.CR2026

FHAIM: Fully Homomorphic AIM For Private Synthetic Data Generation

Mayank Kumar, Qian Lou, Paulo Barreto +2

Data is the lifeblood of AI, yet much of the most valuable data remains locked in silos due to privacy and regulations. As a result, AI remains heavily underutilized in many of the…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Large Language Model-Powered Conversational Agent Delivering Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) for Family Caregivers: Enhancing Empathy and Therapeutic Alliance Using In-Context Learning

Liying Wang, Ph. D., Daffodil Carrington +8

Family caregivers often face substantial mental health challenges due to their multifaceted roles and limited resources. This study explored the potential of a large language model…

cs.AI2025

Transforming Tuberculosis Care: Optimizing Large Language Models For Enhanced Clinician-Patient Communication

Daniil Filienko, Mahek Nizar, Javier Roberti +5

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from an infectious disease globally, with the highest burden in low- and middle-income countries. In these regions, limited healthca…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Privacy in the Early Detection of Sexual Predators Through Federated Learning and Differential Privacy

Khaoula Chehbouni, Martine De Cock, Gilles Caporossi +3

The increased screen time and isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic have led to a significant surge in cases of online grooming, which is the use of strategies by predators to…

cs.CR2024

End to End Collaborative Synthetic Data Generation

Sikha Pentyala, Geetha Sitaraman, Trae Claar +1

The success of AI is based on the availability of data to train models. While in some cases a single data custodian may have sufficient data to enable AI, often multiple custodians…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Privacy Vulnerabilities in Marginals-based Synthetic Data

Steven Golob, Sikha Pentyala, Anuar Maratkhan +1

When acting as a privacy-enhancing technology, synthetic data generation (SDG) aims to maintain a resemblance to the real data while excluding personally-identifiable information.…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

Toward Large Language Models as a Therapeutic Tool: Comparing Prompting Techniques to Improve GPT-Delivered Problem-Solving Therapy

Daniil Filienko, Yinzhou Wang, Caroline El Jazmi +4

While Large Language Models (LLMs) are being quickly adapted to many domains, including healthcare, their strengths and pitfalls remain under-explored. In our study, we examine the…

cs.CR2024

High Epsilon Synthetic Data Vulnerabilities in MST and PrivBayes

Steven Golob, Sikha Pentyala, Anuar Maratkhan +1

Synthetic data generation (SDG) has become increasingly popular as a privacy-enhancing technology. It aims to maintain important statistical properties of its underlying training d…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

CaPS: Collaborative and Private Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Sources

Sikha Pentyala, Mayana Pereira, Martine De Cock

Data is the lifeblood of the modern world, forming a fundamental part of AI, decision-making, and research advances. With increase in interest in data, governments have taken impor…

cs.IR2023

Privacy-Preserving Fair Item Ranking

Jia Ao Sun, Sikha Pentyala, Martine De Cock +1

Users worldwide access massive amounts of curated data in the form of rankings on a daily basis. The societal impact of this ease of access has been studied and work has been done…

cs.CR2022★ 3 cited

Secure Multiparty Computation for Synthetic Data Generation from Distributed Data

Mayana Pereira, Sikha Pentyala, Anderson Nascimento +2

Legal and ethical restrictions on accessing relevant data inhibit data science research in critical domains such as health, finance, and education. Synthetic data generation algori…

cs.LG2022★ 13 cited

PrivFairFL: Privacy-Preserving Group Fairness in Federated Learning

Sikha Pentyala, Nicola Neophytou, Anderson Nascimento +2

Group fairness ensures that the outcome of machine learning (ML) based decision making systems are not biased towards a certain group of people defined by a sensitive attribute suc…

cs.LG2022★ 4 cited

PrivFair: a Library for Privacy-Preserving Fairness Auditing

Sikha Pentyala, David Melanson, Martine De Cock +1

Machine learning (ML) has become prominent in applications that directly affect people's quality of life, including in healthcare, justice, and finance. ML models have been found t…

cs.CR2022

Training Differentially Private Models with Secure Multiparty Computation

Sikha Pentyala, Davis Railsback, Ricardo Maia +4

We address the problem of learning a machine learning model from training data that originates at multiple data owners while providing formal privacy guarantees regarding the prote…

cs.CR2021★ 5 cited

Privacy-Preserving Training of Tree Ensembles over Continuous Data

Samuel Adams, Chaitali Choudhary, Martine De Cock +5

Most existing Secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC) protocols for privacy-preserving training of decision trees over distributed data assume that the features are categorical. In re…

cs.CR2018

VirtualIdentity: Privacy-Preserving User Profiling

Sisi Wang, Wing-Sea Poon, Golnoosh Farnadi +6

User profiling from user generated content (UGC) is a common practice that supports the business models of many social media companies. Existing systems require that the UGC is ful…