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Recently, the enactment of ``right to be forgotten" laws and regulations has imposed new privacy requirements on federated learning (FL). Researchers aim to remove the influence of certain data from the trained model without training from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Lei Zhou , Youwen Zhu , Qiao Xue , Ji Zhang , Pengfei Zhang

We study federated unlearning, a novel problem to eliminate the impact of specific clients or data points on the global model learned via federated learning (FL). This problem is driven by the right to be forgotten and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Youming Tao , Cheng-Long Wang , Miao Pan , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Di Wang

In Machine Learning, the emergence of \textit{the right to be forgotten} gave birth to a paradigm named \textit{machine unlearning}, which enables data holders to proactively erase their data from a trained model. Existing machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yi Liu , Lei Xu , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang , Bo Li

To strengthen data privacy and security, federated learning as an emerging machine learning technique is proposed to enable large-scale nodes, e.g., mobile devices, to distributedly train and globally share models without revealing their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Jiawen Kang , Zehui Xiong , Dusit Niyato , Han Yu , Ying-Chang Liang , Dong In Kim

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique used to train a machine-learning model collaboratively using the data and computation resource of the mobile devices without exposing privacy-sensitive user data. Appropriate incentive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Takayuki Nishio , Ryoichi Shinkuma , Narayan B. Mandayam

Federated learning (FL), introduced in 2017, facilitates collaborative learning between non-trusting parties with no need for the parties to explicitly share their data among themselves. This allows training models on user data while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hyejun Jeong , Shiqing Ma , Amir Houmansadr

Privacy regulations like the GDPR in Europe and the CCPA in the US allow users the right to remove their data ML applications. Machine unlearning addresses this by modifying the ML parameters in order to forget the influence of a specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ayush K. Varshney , Vicenç Torra

By allowing users to erase their data's impact on federated learning models, federated unlearning protects users' right to be forgotten and data privacy. Despite a burgeoning body of research on federated unlearning's technical feasibility,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Ningning Ding , Ermin Wei , Randall Berry

Federated Learning (FL) aims to foster collaboration among a population of clients to improve the accuracy of machine learning without directly sharing local data. Although there has been rich literature on designing federated learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Shengyuan Hu , Dung Daniel Ngo , Shuran Zheng , Virginia Smith , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm for training Large Language Models (LLMs) in a decentralized manner while preserving data privacy and minimizing communication overhead. This survey examines recent advancements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Youyang Qu , Ming Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Longxiang Gao , Shui Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving user privacy. Recently, Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged to address the "right to be forgotten" and to remove the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Minghui Chen , Qiong Zhang , Xiaoxiao Li

The increasing data privacy concerns in recommendation systems have made federated recommendations (FedRecs) attract more and more attention. Existing FedRecs mainly focus on how to effectively and securely learn personal interests and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin , Fangzhao Wu , Shijie Zhang , Tieke He , Hao Wang

Federated unlearning is a promising paradigm for protecting the data ownership of distributed clients. It allows central servers to remove historical data effects within the machine learning model as well as address the "right to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yijing Lin , Zhipeng Gao , Hongyang Du , Jinke Ren , Zhiqiang Xie , Dusit Niyato

Federated unlearning has emerged as a promising paradigm to erase the client-level data effect without affecting the performance of collaborative learning models. However, the federated unlearning process often introduces extensive storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yijing Lin , Zhipeng Gao , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Gui Gui , Shuguang Cui , Jinke Ren

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed learning paradigm. Within the scope of privacy preservation, information privacy regulations such as GDPR entitle users to request the removal (or unlearning) of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ayush K. Varshney , Konstantinos Vandikas , Vicenç Torra

Recently, the practical needs of ``the right to be forgotten'' in federated learning gave birth to a paradigm known as federated unlearning, which enables the server to forget personal data upon the client's removal request. Existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Jian Chen , Zehui Lin , Wanyu Lin , Wenlong Shi , Xiaoyan Yin , Di Wang

Machine unlearning refers to the process of mitigating the influence of specific training data on machine learning models based on removal requests from data owners. However, one important area that has been largely overlooked in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Congcong Zhu , Derui Wang , Kun Gao , Zewei Shi , Sheng Shen , Wanlei Zhou , Minhui Xue

Federated Unlearning (FU) enables the removal of specific clients' data influence from trained models. However, in non-IID settings, removing clients creates critical side effects: remaining clients with similar data distributions suffer…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiaqi Shao , Tao Lin , Xiaojin Zhang , Qiang Yang , Bing Luo

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…

In federated learning, federated unlearning is a technique that provides clients with a rollback mechanism that allows them to withdraw their data contribution without training from scratch. However, existing research has not considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xinrui Yu , Wenbin Pei , Bing Xue , Qiang Zhang