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With the explosive growth of deep learning applications and increasing privacy concerns, the right to be forgotten has become a critical requirement in various AI industries. For example, given a facial recognition system, some individuals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Dasol Choi , Dongbin Na

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous in practice and often processed using graph neural networks (GNNs). With the adoption of recent laws ensuring the ``right to be forgotten'', the problem of graph data removal has become of significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Eli Chien , Chao Pan , Olgica Milenkovic

Large language models (LLMs) may memorize sensitive or copyrighted content, raising significant privacy and legal concerns. While machine unlearning has emerged as a potential remedy, prevailing paradigms rely on user-provided forget sets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Wenxuan Li , Zhenfei Zhang , Mi Zhang , Geng Hong , Mi Wen , Xiaoyu You , Min Yang

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative, privacy-preserving model training, but supporting the "Right to be Forgotten" is especially challenging because data influences the model through distributed and interleaved client updates.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Bokang Zhang , Hong Guan , Hong kyu Lee , Ruixuan Liu , Jia Zou , Li Xiong

The need for effective unlearning mechanisms in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly urgent, driven by the necessity to adhere to data regulations and foster ethical generative AI practices. Despite growing interest of LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Yihua Zhang , Parikshit Ram , Nathalie Baracaldo , Sijia Liu

Effective mental health counseling is a complex, theory-driven process requiring the simultaneous integration of psychological frameworks, real-time distress signals, and strategic intervention planning. This level of clinical reasoning is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Eliya Naomi Aharon , Meytal Grimland , Avi Segal , Loona Ben Dayan , Inbar Shenfeld , Yossi Levi Belz , Kobi Gal

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has garnered significant attention as a distributed machine learning paradigm. To facilitate the implementation of the right to be forgotten, the concept of federated machine unlearning (FMU) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hanlin Gu , Gongxi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Xinyuan Zhao , Yuxing Han , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a compelling machine learning paradigm, prioritizing the protection of privacy for training data. The increasing demand to address issues such as ``the right to be forgotten'' and combat data…

Machine unlearning, the efficient deletion of the impact of specific data in a trained model, remains a challenging problem. Current machine unlearning approaches that focus primarily on data-centric or weight-based strategies frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Thang Duc Tran , Thai Hoang Le

The problem of learning a sparse model is conceptually interpreted as the process of identifying active features/samples and then optimizing the model over them. Recently introduced safe screening allows us to identify a part of non-active…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-09 Atsushi Shibagaki , Masayuki Karasuyama , Kohei Hatano , Ichiro Takeuchi

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

Machine unlearning techniques, which involve retracting data records and reducing influence of said data on trained models, help with the user privacy protection objective but incur significant computational costs. Weight perturbation-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Zhiwei Zuo , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li , Anwitaman Datta

We present a machine unlearning approach that is both retraining- and label-free. Most existing machine unlearning approaches require a model to be fine-tuned to remove information while preserving performance. This is computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jack Foster , Stefan Schoepf , Alexandra Brintrup

Ensemble learning is a very prevalent method employed in machine learning. The relative success of ensemble methods is attributed to their ability to tackle a wide range of instances and complex problems that require different low-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Rohan Saphal , Balaraman Ravindran , Dheevatsa Mudigere , Sasikanth Avancha , Bharat Kaul

Ensemble methods are commonly used to enhance the generalization performance of machine learning models. However, they present a challenge in deep learning systems due to the high computational overhead required to train an ensemble of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Hao Guo , Jiyong Jin , Bin Liu

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data, offering a promising path toward privacy preserving artificial intelligence. However, FL models may still memorize sensitive information from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Parthaw Goswami , Md Khairul Islam , Ashfak Yeafi

Removing information from a machine learning model is a non-trivial task that requires to partially revert the training process. This task is unavoidable when sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or passwords, accidentally enter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Alexander Warnecke , Lukas Pirch , Christian Wressnegger , Konrad Rieck

Machine unlearning, a process enabling pre-trained models to remove the influence of specific training samples, has attracted significant attention in recent years. Although extensive research has focused on developing efficient machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Lefeng Zhang , Le Wang , Wanlei Zhou

As the demand for user privacy grows, controlled data removal (machine unlearning) is becoming an important feature of machine learning models for data-sensitive Web applications such as social networks and recommender systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chao Pan , Eli Chien , Olgica Milenkovic

Due to regulations like the Right to be Forgotten, there is growing demand for removing training data and its influence from models. Since full retraining is costly, various machine unlearning methods have been proposed. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Yang Xiao , Ruimeng Ye , Bohan Liu , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui