most citedSynthetic Data -- what, why and how?

108 citations · 135 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.CR2022

MM: A general method to perform various data analysis tasks from a differentially private sketch

Florimond Houssiau, Vincent Schellekens, Antoine Chatalic +2

Differential privacy is the standard privacy definition for performing analyses over sensitive data. Yet, its privacy budget bounds the number of tasks an analyst can perform with…

cs.CR2022★ 1 cited

A Framework for Auditable Synthetic Data Generation

Florimond Houssiau, Samuel N. Cohen, Lukasz Szpruch +5

Synthetic data has gained significant momentum thanks to sophisticated machine learning tools that enable the synthesis of high-dimensional datasets. However, many generation techn…

cs.CR2022★ 15 cited

TAPAS: a Toolbox for Adversarial Privacy Auditing of Synthetic Data

Florimond Houssiau, James Jordon, Samuel N. Cohen +6

Personal data collected at scale promises to improve decision-making and accelerate innovation. However, sharing and using such data raises serious privacy concerns. A promising so…

cs.CR2022★ 11 cited

QuerySnout: Automating the Discovery of Attribute Inference Attacks against Query-Based Systems

Ana-Maria Cretu, Florimond Houssiau, Antoine Cully +1

Although query-based systems (QBS) have become one of the main solutions to share data anonymously, building QBSes that robustly protect the privacy of individuals contributing to…

cs.LG2022★ 108 cited

Synthetic Data -- what, why and how?

James Jordon, Lukasz Szpruch, Florimond Houssiau +5

This explainer document aims to provide an overview of the current state of the rapidly expanding work on synthetic data technologies, with a particular focus on privacy. The artic…

cs.CR2018

When the signal is in the noise: Exploiting Diffix's Sticky Noise

Andrea Gadotti, Florimond Houssiau, Luc Rocher +2

Anonymized data is highly valuable to both businesses and researchers. A large body of research has however shown the strong limits of the de-identification release-and-forget mode…