Private Post-GAN Boosting

Replication code for ICLR 2021 paper on differentially private synthetic data generation.

May 1, 2021 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Method or Implementation? A Plea for More Rigor in Synthetic Data Benchmarking

Benchmarks that find GANs uncompetitive for tabular synthetic data often compare a default implementation, not the method.

September 17, 2026 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Deceptively Real – Yet Privacy-Compliant? Synthetic Data with Formal Privacy Guarantees

Invited Talk at the Center for Clinical Data Science on synthetic data and privacy guarantees.

May 5, 2026 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Using Prior Knowledge to Improve GANs for Tabular Data Without Compromising Privacy

Three ways to build prior knowledge about the data into GANs for private tabular synthetic data, with differential privacy.

May 1, 2026 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

An Introduction to Generative Adversarial Nets in R: The RGAN Package

Introduces GANs to R users and presents the RGAN package, which runs on torch and makes GAN design choices easy to vary.

April 5, 2026 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

On the Formal Privacy Guarantees of Synthetic Data (Generated Without Formal Privacy Guarantees)

Examining what privacy guarantees synthetic data can satisfy even without formal guarantees during synthesizer training.

February 17, 2026 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Generating Synthetic Data is Complicated: Know Your Data and Know Your Generator

Ready-made synthetic data generators are not plug-and-play: preprocessing matters as much as tuning, and so does knowing the generator.

September 13, 2024 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Continual Release of Differentially Private Synthetic Data from Longitudinal Data Collections

Algorithms for continually releasing differentially private synthetic data from longitudinal data collections.

May 14, 2024 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Bootstrap-based, General-purpose Statistical Inference from Differential Private Releases

A general-purpose method combining bootstrap with differentially private non-parametric distribution estimation.

May 2, 2023 · Marcel Neunhoeffer

Private Post-GAN Boosting

Differentially private method combining samples from GAN training to create high-quality synthetic data.

May 1, 2021 · Marcel Neunhoeffer