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The trustworthy machine learning (ML) community is increasingly recognizing the crucial need for models capable of selectively 'unlearning' data points after training. This leads to the problem of machine unlearning (MU), aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Alfred Hero , Sijia Liu

Machine unlearning algorithms, designed for selective removal of training data from models, have emerged as a promising approach to growing privacy concerns. In this work, we expose a critical yet underexplored vulnerability in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yangsibo Huang , Daogao Liu , Lynn Chua , Badih Ghazi , Pritish Kamath , Ravi Kumar , Pasin Manurangsi , Milad Nasr , Amer Sinha , Chiyuan Zhang

Machine learning systems increasingly face requirements to remove entire domains of information--such as toxic language or biases--rather than individual user data. This task presents a dilemma: full removal of the unwanted domain data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Sanmi Koyejo

As machine learning systems increasingly rely on data subject to privacy regulation, selectively unlearning specific information from trained models has become essential. In image classification, this involves removing the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Prabhav Sanga , Jaskaran Singh , Arun K. Dubey

Pruning-based unlearning has recently emerged as a fast, training-free, and data-independent approach to remove undesired concepts from diffusion models. It promises high efficiency and robustness, offering an attractive alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ci Zhang , Zhaojun Ding , Chence Yang , Jun Liu , Xiaoming Zhai , Shaoyi Huang , Beiwen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Jin Lu , Geng Yuan

Recent legal frameworks have mandated the right to be forgotten, obligating the removal of specific data upon user requests. Machine Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution by selectively removing learned information from machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiang Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Wenqi Wei

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are often trained on the premise that the complete training data set is provided ahead of time. However, in real-world scenarios, data often arrive in chunks over time. This leads to important considerations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Vijaya Raghavan T. Ramkumar , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Recent advances in machine unlearning have focused on developing algorithms to remove specific training samples from a trained model. In contrast, we observe that not all models are equally easy to unlearn. Hence, we introduce a family of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Amber Yijia Zheng , Yu-Shan Tai , Raymond A. Yeh

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific data points from a trained model, often striving to emulate "perfect retraining", i.e., producing the model that would have been obtained had the deleted data never been included. We demonstrate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Aloni Cohen , Refael Kohen , Kobbi Nissim , Uri Stemmer

The current trend in data regulation requirements and privacy-preserving machine learning has emphasized the importance of machine unlearning. The naive approach to unlearning training data by retraining over the complement of the forget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Junaid Iqbal Khan

Driven by privacy protection laws and regulations, unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is gaining increasing attention. However, current research often neglects the interpretability of the unlearning process, particularly concerning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Xiaohua Feng , Yuyuan Li , Chengye Wang , Junlin Liu , Li Zhang , Chaochao Chen

Machine unlearning (MU) aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained models, addressing privacy concerns and ensuring compliance with regulations such as the ``right to be forgotten.'' Evaluating strong unlearning, where the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Dongjae Jeon , Wonje Jeung , Taeheon Kim , Albert No , Jonghyun Choi

As the right to be forgotten becomes legislated worldwide, machine unlearning mechanisms have emerged to efficiently update models for data deletion and enhance user privacy protection. However, existing machine unlearning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lisong He , Yi Yang , Xiangyu Chang

Speech emotion recognition aims to identify emotional states from speech signals and has been widely applied in human-computer interaction, education, healthcare, and many other fields. However, since speech data contain rich sensitive…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Zhao Ren , Rathi Adarshi Rammohan , Kevin Scheck , Tanja Schultz

Training Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) is still highly time-consuming and compute-intensive. It has been shown that adapting a pretrained model may significantly accelerate this process. With a focus on classification, we show that current…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Farshid Varno , Lucas May Petry , Lisa Di Jorio , Stan Matwin

Medical imaging machine learning algorithms are usually evaluated on a single dataset. Although training and testing are performed on different subsets of the dataset, models built on one study show limited capability to generalize to other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Ahmed Ashraf , Shehroz Khan , Nikhil Bhagwat , Mallar Chakravarty , Babak Taati

Machine unlearning algorithms aim to efficiently remove data from a model without retraining it from scratch, in order to remove corrupted or outdated data or respect a user's ``right to be forgotten." Certified machine unlearning is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Siqiao Mu , Diego Klabjan

The ability of machine learning systems to learn continually is hindered by catastrophic forgetting, the tendency of neural networks to overwrite previously acquired knowledge when learning a new task. Existing methods mitigate this problem…

Machine Unlearning removes specific knowledge about training data samples from an already trained model. It has significant practical benefits, such as purging private, inaccurate, or outdated information from trained models without the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

Machine learning models based on neural networks (NNs) are enjoying ever-increasing attention in the DB community. However, an important issue has been largely overlooked, namely the challenge of dealing with the highly dynamic nature of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Meghdad Kurmanji , Eleni Triantafillou , Peter Triantafillou