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Nowdays, there are an abundance of portable devices capable of collecting large amounts of data and with decent computational power. This opened the possibility to train AI models in a distributed manner, preserving the participating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Riccardo Santi , Riccardo Salami , Simone Calderara

Deep neural networks are typically trained by uniformly sampling large datasets across epochs, despite evidence that not all samples contribute equally throughout learning. Recent work shows that progressively reducing the amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Amar Gahir , Varshil Patel , Shreyank N Gowda

Machine unlearning allows data owners to erase the impact of their specified data from trained models. Unfortunately, recent studies have shown that adversaries can recover the erased data, posing serious threats to user privacy. An…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Weiqi Wang , Chenhan Zhang , Zhiyi Tian , Shushu Liu , Shui Yu

How can we effectively unlearn selected concepts from pre-trained generative foundation models without resorting to extensive retraining? This research introduces `continual unlearning', a novel paradigm that enables the targeted removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

The era of huge data necessitates highly efficient machine learning algorithms. Many common machine learning algorithms, however, rely on computationally intensive subroutines that are prohibitively expensive on large datasets. Oftentimes,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mo Tiwari

Anomaly detection (AD) tasks have been solved using machine learning algorithms in various domains and applications. The great majority of these algorithms use normal data to train a residual-based model and assign anomaly scores to unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Markus Ulmer , Jannik Zgraggen , Lilach Goren Huber

With the emergence of various molecular tasks and massive datasets, how to perform efficient training has become an urgent yet under-explored issue in the area. Data pruning (DP), as an oft-stated approach to saving training burdens,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Dingshuo Chen , Zhixun Li , Yuyan Ni , Guibin Zhang , Ding Wang , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Liang Wang

Untrusted data used to train a model might have been manipulated to endow the learned model with hidden properties that the data contributor might later exploit. Data purification aims to remove such manipulations prior to training the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Zonghao Huang , Neil Gong , Michael K. Reiter

During pretraining, LLMs inadvertently memorize sensitive or copyrighted data, posing significant compliance challenges under legal frameworks like the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Fulfilling these mandates demands techniques that can remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Efstratios Zaradoukas , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

The right of an individual to request the deletion of their personal data by an entity that might be storing it -- referred to as the right to be forgotten -- has been explicitly recognized, legislated, and exercised in several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Sanjam Garg , Shafi Goldwasser , Prashant Nalini Vasudevan

Learning portable neural networks is very essential for computer vision for the purpose that pre-trained heavy deep models can be well applied on edge devices such as mobile phones and micro sensors. Most existing deep neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Hanting Chen , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Zhaohui Yang , Chuanjian Liu , Boxin Shi , Chunjing Xu , Chao Xu , Qi Tian

Data cleansing is a typical approach used to improve the accuracy of machine learning models, which, however, requires extensive domain knowledge to identify the influential instances that affect the models. In this paper, we propose an…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-06-21 Satoshi Hara , Atsushi Nitanda , Takanori Maehara

Data reconstruction attacks on trained neural networks aim to recover the data on which the network has been trained and pose a significant threat to privacy, especially if the training dataset contains sensitive information. Here, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Edward Tansley , Roy Makhlouf , Estelle Massart , Coralia Cartis

We propose a framework to convert $(\varepsilon, \delta)$-approximate Differential Privacy (DP) mechanisms into $(\varepsilon', 0)$-pure DP mechanisms under certain conditions, a process we call ``purification.'' This algorithmic technique…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yingyu Lin , Erchi Wang , Yi-An Ma , Yu-Xiang Wang

Deep generative models are often trained on sensitive data, such as genetic sequences, health data, or more broadly, any copyrighted, licensed or protected content. This raises critical concerns around privacy-preserving synthetic data, and…

For privacy and security concerns, the need to erase unwanted information from pre-trained vision models is becoming evident nowadays. In real-world scenarios, erasure requests originate at any time from both users and model owners, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hongbo Zhao , Fei Zhu , Bolin Ni , Feng Zhu , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Machine unlearning, i.e. having a model forget about some of its training data, has become increasingly more important as privacy legislation promotes variants of the right-to-be-forgotten. In the context of deep learning, approaches for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Anvith Thudi , Hengrui Jia , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Gradient Boosting Decision Tree (GBDT) is one of the most popular machine learning models in various applications. However, in the traditional settings, all data should be simultaneously accessed in the training procedure: it does not allow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Huawei Lin , Jun Woo Chung , Yingjie Lao , Weijie Zhao

In the era of exceptionally data-hungry models, careful selection of the training data is essential to mitigate the extensive costs of deep learning. Data pruning offers a solution by removing redundant or uninformative samples from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Artem Vysogorets , Kartik Ahuja , Julia Kempe

Neural network quantization is an effective way to compress deep models and improve their execution latency and energy efficiency, so that they can be deployed on mobile or embedded devices. Existing quantization methods require original…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Shoukai Xu , Haokun Li , Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Jiezhang Cao , Chuangrun Liang , Mingkui Tan