SoK: Can Synthetic Images Replace Real Data? A Survey of Utility and Privacy of Synthetic Image Generation

Advances in generative models have transformed the field of synthetic image generation for privacy-preserving data synthesis PPDS. However, the field lacks a comprehensive survey and comparison of synthetic image generation methods across diverse settings. In particular, when we generate syntheti...

Fair Play for Individuals, Foul Play for Groups? Auditing Anonymization'S Impact on ML Fairness

Machine learning ML algorithms are heavily based on the availability of training data, which, depending on the domain, often includes sensitive information about data providers. This raises critical privacy concerns. Anonymization techniques have emerged as a practical solution to address these...

How Private Is Your Attention? Bridging Privacy with In-Context Learning

In-context learning ICL-the ability of transformer-based models to perform new tasks from examples provided at inference time-has emerged as a hallmark of modern language models. While recent works have investigated the mechanisms underlying ICL, its feasibility under formal privacy constraints...