2026
SMOTE and Mirrors: Exposing Privacy Leakage from Synthetic Minority Oversampling
Georgi Ganev, MohammadReza Nazari, Rees Davison, Amirhassan Fallah Dizche, XINMIN WU, Ralph Abbey +2
ICLR 2026poster
The Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) is one of the most widely used methods for addressing class imbalance and generating synthetic data. Despite its popularity, little attention has been paid to its privacy implications; yet, it is used in the wild in many privacy-sensitive applic…