Synthesizing Realistic Test Data without Breaking Privacy

Published in VERIFAI (Workshop), 2026

Recommended citation: Laura Plein, Alexi Turcotte, Arina Hallemans, and Andreas Zeller. 2026. Synthesizing Realistic Test Data without Breaking Privacy. In the VERIFAI Workshop.

We describe a dataset with a grammar, generate samples from it with a fuzzer, and train a decision-tree classifier to tell generated samples apart from the original data. Samples the classifier takes for originals seed the next round of generation, and the discriminator is retrained each round on the newest data.