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Large language models (LLMs) may memorize sensitive or copyrighted content, raising privacy and legal concerns. Due to the high cost of retraining from scratch, researchers attempt to employ machine unlearning to remove specific content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaojian Yuan , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Min Lin

Analogical reasoning is a fundamental cognitive ability of humans. However, current language models (LMs) still struggle to achieve human-like performance in analogical reasoning tasks due to a lack of resources for model training. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Siyu Yuan , Jiangjie Chen , Changzhi Sun , Jiaqing Liang , Yanghua Xiao , Deqing Yang

Machine unlearning for large language models often faces a privacy dilemma in which strict constraints prohibit sharing either the server's parameters or the client's forget set. To address this dual non-disclosure constraint, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tiantong Wang , Xinyu Yan , Tiantong Wu , Yurong Hao , Pengjun Xie , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Knowledge base completion (KBC) aims to predict missing information in a knowledge base.In this paper, we address the out-of-knowledge-base (OOKB) entity problem in KBC:how to answer queries concerning test entities not observed at training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-09 Takuo Hamaguchi , Hidekazu Oiwa , Masashi Shimbo , Yuji Matsumoto

Unlearning the data observed during the training of a machine learning (ML) model is an important task that can play a pivotal role in fortifying the privacy and security of ML-based applications. This paper raises the following questions:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ayush K Tarun , Vikram S Chundawat , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Task-oriented dialogue systems are either modularized with separate dialogue state tracking (DST) and management steps or end-to-end trainable. In either case, the knowledge base (KB) plays an essential role in fulfilling user requests.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Andrea Madotto , Samuel Cahyawijaya , Genta Indra Winata , Yan Xu , Zihan Liu , Zhaojiang Lin , Pascale Fung

Quantum Machine Unlearning has emerged as a foundational challenge at the intersection of quantum information theory privacypreserving computation and trustworthy artificial intelligence This paper advances QMU by establishing a formal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Haoran Xie

As large language models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets, they have raised significant privacy and ethical concerns due to their potential to inadvertently retain sensitive information. Unlearning seeks to selectively remove specific…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Philipp Spohn , Leander Girrbach , Jessica Bader , Zeynep Akata

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across natural language processing tasks, yet their widespread deployment raises pressing concerns around privacy, copyright, security, and bias. Machine unlearning has emerged…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Tyler Lizzo , Larry Heck

Machine unlearning removes certain training data points and their influence from AI models (e.g., when a data owner revokes their consent to allow models to learn from the data). In this position paper, we propose to lift data-tracing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yuwen Tan , Boqing Gong

Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as repositories of extensive world knowledge, enabling them to perform tasks such as question-answering and fact-checking. However, this knowledge can become obsolete as global contexts change. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Yuhao Wu , Tongjun Shi , Karthick Sharma , Chun Wei Seah , Shuhao Zhang

Modern tokenizers employ deterministic algorithms to map text into a single "canonical" token sequence, yet the same string can be encoded as many non-canonical tokenizations using the tokenizer vocabulary. In this work, we investigate the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Brian Siyuan Zheng , Alisa Liu , Orevaoghene Ahia , Jonathan Hayase , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

Recent legislation of the "right to be forgotten" has led to the interest in machine unlearning, where the learned models are endowed with the function to forget information about specific training instances as if they have never existed in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Lingzhi Wang , Tong Chen , Wei Yuan , Xingshan Zeng , Kam-Fai Wong , Hongzhi Yin

Word embeddings -- distributed word representations that can be learned from unlabelled data -- have been shown to have high utility in many natural language processing applications. In this paper, we perform an extrinsic evaluation of five…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Lizhen Qu , Gabriela Ferraro , Liyuan Zhou , Weiwei Hou , Nathan Schneider , Timothy Baldwin

Machine unlearning aims to remove the contribution of designated training data from a trained model while preserving performance on the remaining data. Existing work mainly focuses on single-task settings, whereas modern models often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Ying-Hua Huang , Rui Fang , Hsi-Wen Chen , Ming-Syan Chen

Large language models show impressive abilities in memorizing world knowledge, which leads to concerns regarding memorization of private information, toxic or sensitive knowledge, and copyrighted content. We introduce the problem of Large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yu Wang , Ruihan Wu , Zexue He , Xiusi Chen , Julian McAuley

With the surge and widespread application of image generation models, data privacy and content safety have become major concerns and attracted great attention from users, service providers, and policymakers. Machine unlearning (MU) is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Renyang Liu , Wenjie Feng , Tianwei Zhang , Wei Zhou , Xueqi Cheng , See-Kiong Ng

This work delves into the complexities of machine unlearning in the face of distributional shifts, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by non-uniform feature and label removal. With the advent of regulations like the GDPR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ling Han , Nanqing Luo , Hao Huang , Jing Chen , Mary-Anne Hartley

With the advent of kernel methods, automating the task of specifying a suitable kernel has become increasingly important. In this context, the Multiple Kernel Learning (MKL) problem of finding a combination of pre-specified base kernels…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Abhishek Kumar , Alexandru Niculescu-Mizil , Koray Kavukcuoglu , Hal Daume

Machine unlearning (MU) seeks to remove knowledge of specific data samples from trained models without the necessity for complete retraining, a task made challenging by the dual objectives of effective erasure of data and maintaining the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Mark He Huang , Lin Geng Foo , Jun Liu