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LLM-based data generators show promise for privacy-preserving synthetic data but struggle with statistical accuracy due to inherent AI biases.

arXiv cs.LG · April 20, 2026

AI Summary

  • PersonaLedger, an LLM-powered financial simulator, achieved fraud detection utility with AUC 0.70 at epsilon=1 when seeded with differentially private synthetic personas
  • The system exhibited significant distribution drift caused by LLM learned priors overriding input statistics for temporal and demographic features
  • While LLMs offer advantages over traditional methods for generating complex synthetic data from high-dimensional user profiles, systematic biases must be resolved before practical deployment

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