{"id":9582,"date":"2026-02-18T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T16:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/projects\/anonymite-des-donnees-synthetiques\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T12:31:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:31:42","slug":"anonymite-des-donnees-synthetiques","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/en\/projects\/anonymite-des-donnees-synthetiques\/","title":{"rendered":"Synthetic Data Anonymity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-grid wp-container-core-group-is-layout-549e1f2d wp-block-group-is-layout-grid\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Assessing the residual privacy risks of synthetic data <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In the field of medical research, and in relation to knowledge development more broadly, machine learning models can now be trained to generate synthetic (fictitious) patient profiles using real patient data. How can we characterize the residual privacy risks of these synthetic profiles?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TuileTest_Gambs3_ENG.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9579\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading wp-container-content-5e2576f9\">LATECE domain<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Connected health<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LATECE values <\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list wp-container-content-5e2576f9\">\n<li>Social conscience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public service<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Knowledge development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nature of the project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\">Designing a model to assess the privacy risk of synthetic data<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7cbeccb406f393e6ac9caffb6399adf0\">The challenge <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\">How can we characterize the residual privacy risks of machine-generated synthetic data?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-175b6a6efbc4ea042e59eeb5c60a9411\">The solutions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\">As part of an international competition, we participated in a membership inference attack (MIA) exercise aimed at finding and extracting private data from synthetic set generated from real personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\">The UQAM-CHUM team demonstrated that certain safeguards are needed to better protect personal data used by generative models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Development of a library of synthetic data creation models that ensure differential privacy and enable MIA exercises to evaluate the level of residual risk in synthetic data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Target audiences<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>General public<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Healthcare system<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medical and IA research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Start up<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">End date<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leader<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/membre\/sebastien-gambs\/\" type=\"membre\" id=\"2292\">Sebastien Gambs, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LATECE student contributor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hadrien Lautraite<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collaborators<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rajotte, Lorrie Herbault, Yue Qi, Micha\u00ebl Chass\u00e9, CHUM<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Keywords<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#Connected Health #AI #PersonaData #SyntheticData #Privacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Partners and Funders<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list wp-container-content-5e2576f9\">\n<li>FRQS<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Total funding<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d552cc063ca5e0dd68e9051153b7fcea wp-container-content-5e2576f9 wp-block-paragraph\">$30,000<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CLOVER: A framework for benchmarking synthetic data generation methods balancing utility and privacy in healthcare<\/strong>. Yue Qi, Lorrie Herbault, Hadrien Lautraite, Michael Yu, Katleen Blanchet, Christian Vincelette, Louis Mullie, Guillaume Dumas, Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Rajotte, Kamran Afzali, S\u00e9bastien Gambs, Micha\u00ebl Chass\u00e9. Artificial Intelligence in the Life Sciences, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Media coverage<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/actualites.uqam.ca\/2025\/un-projet-avec-le-chum-sur-la-confidentialite-des-donnees-generees-par-ia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTU-UQAM_GambsIA-978x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTU-UQAM_GambsIA-978x1024.png 978w, https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTU-UQAM_GambsIA-287x300.png 287w, https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTU-UQAM_GambsIA-768x804.png 768w, https:\/\/latece.uqam.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ACTU-UQAM_GambsIA.png 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assessing the residual privacy risks of synthetic data In the field of medical research, and in relation to knowledge development more broadly, machine learning models can now be trained to generate synthetic (fictitious) patient profiles using real patient data. 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