Rethinking Anonymity Claims in Synthetic Data Generation: A Model-Centric Privacy Attack Perspective

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arXiv:2601.22434v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training generative machine learning models to produce synthetic tabular data has become a popular approach for enhancing privacy in data sharing. As this typically involves processing sensitive personal information, releasing either the trained model or generated synthetic datasets can still pose privacy risks. Yet, recent research, commercial deployments, and privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) largely