Summary of Defining ‘good’: Evaluation Framework For Synthetic Smart Meter Data, by Sheng Chai et al.
Defining ‘Good’: Evaluation Framework for Synthetic Smart Meter Data
by Sheng Chai, Gus Chadney, Charlot Avery, Phil Grunewald, Pascal Van Hentenryck, Priya L. Donti
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the creation of synthetic smart meter data for net zero transition, addressing concerns around public release of granular demand data due to privacy issues. Researchers investigate applying frameworks from other industries that leverage synthetic data, including fidelity, utility, and privacy metrics. The study proposes a novel method for assessing privacy risks by injecting implausible outliers into training data and launching attacks directly on these anomalies. The choice of epsilon, a metric of privacy loss, significantly impacts privacy risk, highlighting the need for explicit privacy tests when balancing fidelity and privacy. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us get closer to achieving net zero emissions by creating fake smart meter data that’s just like real data, but private. Right now, we can’t share real smart meter data because it might reveal personal information. The researchers looked at how other industries create synthetic data and applied those same techniques to smart meter data. They also developed a new way to test whether this fake data is private enough by introducing strange values into the data and seeing if someone can guess where they came from. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Synthetic data
