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As deep learning models are becoming larger and data-hungrier, there are growing ethical, legal and technical concerns over use of data: in practice, agreements on data use may change over time, rendering previously-used training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Nazanin Mohammadi Sepahvand , Vincent Dumoulin , Eleni Triantafillou , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Transformers for graph data are increasingly widely studied and successful in numerous learning tasks. Graph inductive biases are crucial for Graph Transformers, and previous works incorporate them using message-passing modules and/or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Liheng Ma , Chen Lin , Derek Lim , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Puneet K. Dokania , Mark Coates , Philip Torr , Ser-Nam Lim

The recent contrastive learning methods, due to their effectiveness in representation learning, have been widely applied to modeling graph data. Random perturbation is widely used to build contrastive views for graph data, which however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Yucheng Shi , Kaixiong Zhou , Ninghao Liu

Generalizing to unseen graph tasks without task-specific supervision is challenging: conventional graph neural networks are typically tied to a fixed label space, while large language models (LLMs) struggle to capture graph structure. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Duo Wang , Yuan Zuo , Guangyue Lu , Junjie Wu

The rapid growth of machine learning has spurred legislative initiatives such as ``the Right to be Forgotten,'' allowing users to request data removal. In response, ``machine unlearning'' proposes the selective removal of unwanted data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Guihong Li , Hsiang Hsu , Chun-Fu Chen , Radu Marculescu

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data from a learned model without full retraining. While recent work has begun to explore unlearning in quantum machine learning, existing approaches largely rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nausherwan Malik , Zubair Khalid , Muhammad Faryad

As generative models become increasingly powerful and pervasive, the ability to unlearn specific data, whether due to privacy concerns, legal requirements, or the correction of harmful content, has become increasingly important. Unlike in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Pinak Mandal , Georg A. Gottwald

Privacy laws and regulations enforce data-driven systems, e.g., recommender systems, to erase the data that concern individuals. As machine learning models potentially memorize the training data, data erasure should also unlearn the data…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Yuyuan Li , Xiaolin Zheng , Chaochao Chen , Junlin Liu

It is often desirable to remove (a.k.a. unlearn) a specific part of the training data from a trained neural network model. A typical application scenario is to protect the data holder's right to be forgotten, which has been promoted by many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xuran Li , Jingyi Wang , Xiaohan Yuan , Peixin Zhang

The right to be forgotten states that a data owner has the right to erase their data from an entity storing it. In the context of machine learning (ML), the right to be forgotten requires an ML model owner to remove the data owner's data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Min Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Yang Zhang

While the use of graph-structured data in various fields is becoming increasingly popular, it also raises concerns about the potential unauthorized exploitation of personal data for training commercial graph neural network (GNN) models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Yixin Liu , Chenrui Fan , Pan Zhou , Lichao Sun

In this study, we present a transductive inference approach on that reward information propagation graph, which enables the effective estimation of rewards for unlabelled data in offline reinforcement learning. Reward inference is the key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Bohao Qu , Xiaofeng Cao , Qing Guo , Yi Chang , Ivor W. Tsang , Chengqi Zhang

Image segmentation, the process of partitioning an image into meaningful regions, plays a pivotal role in computer vision and medical imaging applications. Unsupervised segmentation, particularly in the absence of labeled data, remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Kovvuri Sai Gopal Reddy , Bodduluri Saran , A. Mudit Adityaja , Saurabh J. Shigwan , Nitin Kumar

With recent legislation on the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning has emerged as a crucial research area. It facilitates the removal of a user's data from federated trained machine learning models without the necessity for retraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Houzhe Wang , Xiaojie Zhu , Chi Chen , Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo

We introduce a novel approach to graph-level representation learning, which is to embed an entire graph into a vector space where the embeddings of two graphs preserve their graph-graph proximity. Our approach, UGRAPHEMB, is a general…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yunsheng Bai , Hao Ding , Yang Qiao , Agustin Marinovic , Ken Gu , Ting Chen , Yizhou Sun , Wei Wang

Machine unlearning is a promising paradigm for removing unwanted data samples from a trained model, towards ensuring compliance with privacy regulations and limiting harmful biases. Although unlearning has been shown in, e.g.,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-19 Yuyang Xue , Jingshuai Liu , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Machine unlearning, the process of selectively removing data from trained models, is increasingly crucial for addressing privacy concerns and knowledge gaps post-deployment. Despite this importance, existing approaches are often heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Youssef Allouah , Joshua Kazdan , Rachid Guerraoui , Sanmi Koyejo

There has been a surge of recent interest in learning representations for graph-structured data. Graph representation learning methods have generally fallen into three main categories, based on the availability of labeled data. The first,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Ines Chami , Sami Abu-El-Haija , Bryan Perozzi , Christopher Ré , Kevin Murphy

Graphs are a fundamental abstraction for modeling relational data. However, graphs are discrete and combinatorial in nature, and learning representations suitable for machine learning tasks poses statistical and computational challenges. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-16 Aditya Grover , Aaron Zweig , Stefano Ermon

Machine unlearning in neural information retrieval (IR) systems requires removing specific data whilst maintaining model performance. Applying existing machine unlearning methods to IR may compromise retrieval effectiveness or inadvertently…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jingrui Hou , Axel Finke , Georgina Cosma