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DPSynth

Differentially Private Synthetic Data with Guaranteed Utility

R package implementing differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation for tabular data, with standardized utility evaluation and empirical disclosure risk auditing.

Authors: Mukul Bijalwan (mukulbijalwan555@gmail.com), Gunjan Aggarwal, Mukul Jain

Features

DP-Copula synthesizer (dp_copula_synth) — DP histogram marginals + Gaussian-copula dependence with noisy rank correlations projected to the positive-definite cone. Handles mixed numeric/categorical data.
DP-GMM (dp_gmm_synth) — Gaussian mixture models fit via EM on perturbed sufficient statistics (noisy counts, means, variances), DP k-means++ initialization through the exponential mechanism.
DP marginals (dp_marginals_synth) — fast per-column DP histogram baseline.
PATE (dp_pate_synth) — Private Aggregation of Teacher Ensembles for discrete / mixed-type synthesis.
Utility evaluation (evaluate_utility) — univariate (KS, Hellinger), multivariate (correlation distance, MI), propensity-score pMSE (Woo et al., 2009), downstream TSTR performance.
Risk auditing — membership inference, attribute disclosure, record linkage.
Budget accounting (new_synth_budget, spend_synth) — basic, advanced and Rényi-DP composition.

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("MukulBijalwan/DPSynth")

Quick start

library(DPSynth)

data(adult_sample)
set.seed(1)
res <- dp_synthesize(adult_sample, method = "copula",
                     epsilon = 2.0, delta = 1e-6, n_synth = 1000)
print(res)
head(res$synthetic_data)

Privacy model

A generator G is (ε, δ)-DP if for all neighbouring datasets D ~ D′:

Pr[G(D) = S] ≤ e^ε · Pr[G(D′) = S] + δ

The entire synthetic dataset is the output; DPSynth privatizes the model parameters with calibrated noise, after which sampling is post-processing and consumes no additional budget.

Note on formal guarantees

Bounds derived from the data itself (e.g., min/max clamping bounds by default in dp_gmm_synth) are not themselves differentially private. For formal end-to-end guarantees, supply public/domain bounds via the bounds argument.

License

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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