PreFair: Privately Generating Justifiably Fair Synthetic Data

Summary: PreFair integrates causal "justifiable fairness" into DP synthetic-data generation, adapting the notion for the synthetic-data setting to enforce fairness. It proves intractability, gives algorithms optimal under assumptions, and empirically yields significantly fairer synthetic data with comparable fidelity to leading DP generators. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13020
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.4810982e-05
Overall Rank: 8,608 | 40.18%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583168

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,223	On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set	2026	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
10,731	Privacy-Enhanced Database Synthesis for Benchmark Publishing	2025	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
137	Revealing Information while Preserving Privacy	2003	PODS	0.00042381562
1,037	Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014514825
1,446	PrivBayes: Private Data Release via Bayesian Networks	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011931212
1,516	PrivTree: A Differentially Private Algorithm for Hierarchical Decompositions	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011558246
1,740	PrivateSQL: A Differentially Private SQL Query Engine	2019	VLDB	0.00010696383
2,436	Optimizing error of high-dimensional statistical queries under differential privacy	2018	VLDB	8.8217855e-05
3,834	Kamino: Constraint-Aware Differentially Private Data Synthesis	2021	VLDB	6.713066e-05
4,248	DPSynthesizer: Differentially Private Data Synthesizer for Privacy Preserving Data Sharing	2014	VLDB	6.3175826e-05

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