Summary of Data Plagiarism Index: Characterizing the Privacy Risk Of Data-copying in Tabular Generative Models, by Joshua Ward et al.
Data Plagiarism Index: Characterizing the Privacy Risk of Data-Copying in Tabular Generative Models
by Joshua Ward, Chi-Hua Wang, Guang Cheng
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Data Plagiarism Index (DPI) is a new similarity metric designed to measure the tendency of tabular generative models to copy data from their training sets, thereby posing privacy and fairness threats. By evaluating various methods for measuring data-copying, this paper highlights the limitations of existing approaches and presents DPI as a solution motivated by recent results in the data-copying literature. The authors demonstrate that DPI effectively identifies privacy risks and underscores the need for more advanced generative modeling techniques to mitigate these issues. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research aims to develop tabular generative models that can produce realistic synthetic data without compromising user privacy. To achieve this, the team proposes a new metric called Data Plagiarism Index (DPI) that measures how well a model copies data from its training set. The authors show that DPI is effective in identifying privacy risks and highlights the importance of developing more sophisticated generative models to protect users’ information. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Synthetic data
