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Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) allows clients with limited resources to outsource their expensive ML tasks to powerful servers. Despite the huge benefits, current MLaaS solutions still lack strong assurances on: 1) service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Lingchen Zhao , Qian Wang , Cong Wang , Qi Li , Chao Shen , Xiaodong Lin , Shengshan Hu , Minxin Du

As privacy concerns escalate in the realm of machine learning, data owners now have the option to utilize machine unlearning to remove their data from machine learning models, following recent legislation. To enhance transparency in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Binchi Zhang , Zihan Chen , Cong Shen , Jundong Li

The rapid progress of AI, combined with its unprecedented public adoption and the propensity of large neural networks to memorize training data, has given rise to significant data privacy concerns. To address these concerns, machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ali Abbasi , Chayne Thrash , Elaheh Akbari , Daniel Zhang , Soheil Kolouri

MLaaS (Machine Learning as a Service) has become popular in the cloud computing domain, allowing users to leverage cloud resources for running private inference of ML models on their data. However, ensuring user input privacy and secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Kishore Rajasekar , Randolph Loh , Kar Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Machine unlearning enables the removal of specific data from ML models to uphold the right to be forgotten. While approximate unlearning algorithms offer efficient alternatives to full retraining, this work reveals that they fail to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yaxin Xiao , Qingqing Ye , Li Hu , Huadi Zheng , Haibo Hu , Zi Liang , Haoyang Li , Yijie Jiao

Machine unlearning, the process of efficiently removing specific information from machine learning models, is a growing area of interest for responsible AI. However, few studies have explored the effectiveness of unlearning methods on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Alkis Koudounas , Claudio Savelli , Flavio Giobergia , Elena Baralis

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

Machine unlearning is a process of removing the impact of some training data from the machine learning (ML) models upon receiving removal requests. While straightforward and legitimate, retraining the ML model from scratch incurs a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Min Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Yang Zhang

With privacy legislation empowering the users with the right to be forgotten, it has become essential to make a model amenable for forgetting some of its training data. However, existing unlearning methods in the machine learning context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Anisa Halimi , Swanand Kadhe , Ambrish Rawat , Nathalie Baracaldo

The right to be forgotten mandates that machine learning models enable the erasure of a data owner's data and information from a trained model. Removing data from the dataset alone is inadequate, as machine learning models can memorize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xiaoyu Xia , Ziqi Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Bowen Liu , Ibrahim Khalil , Minhui Xue

Machine Learning as a service (MLaaS) permits resource-limited clients to access powerful data analytics services ubiquitously. Despite its merits, MLaaS poses significant concerns regarding the integrity of delegated computation and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Haodi Wang , Thang Hoang

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

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

Nowadays, machine learning models, especially neural networks, become prevalent in many real-world applications.These models are trained based on a one-way trip from user data: as long as users contribute their data, there is no way to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Yang Liu , Zhuo Ma , Ximeng Liu , Jian Liu , Zhongyuan Jiang , Jianfeng Ma , Philip Yu , Kui Ren

Modern computer systems store vast amounts of personal data, enabling advances in AI and ML but risking user privacy and trust. For privacy reasons, it is sometimes desired for an ML model to forget part of the data it was trained on. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Amartya Hatua , Trung T. Nguyen , Filip Cano , Andrew H. Sung

Machine unlearning has great significance in guaranteeing model security and protecting user privacy. Additionally, many legal provisions clearly stipulate that users have the right to demand model providers to delete their own data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Yingzhe He , Guozhu Meng , Kai Chen , Jinwen He , Xingbo Hu

Jailbreaking attacks can enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to bypass the safeguard and generate harmful content. Existing jailbreaking defense methods have failed to address the fundamental issue that harmful knowledge resides within the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Weikai Lu , Ziqian Zeng , Jianwei Wang , Zhengdong Lu , Zelin Chen , Huiping Zhuang , Cen Chen

The rise of the phenomenon of the "right to be forgotten" has prompted research on machine unlearning, which grants data owners the right to actively withdraw data that has been used for model training, and requires the elimination of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Xulong Zhang , Jianzong Wang , Ning Cheng , Yifu Sun , Chuanyao Zhang , Jing Xiao

Language Models (LMs) are prone to ''memorizing'' training data, including substantial sensitive user information. To mitigate privacy risks and safeguard the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning has emerged as a promising approach for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jiacheng Du , Zhibo Wang , Jie Zhang , Xiaoyi Pang , Jiahui Hu , Kui Ren

Machine unlearning is an emerging technology that removes a subset of the training data from a trained model without significantly affecting the model performance on the remaining data. This topic is becoming increasingly important in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Laiqiao Qin , Tianqing Zhu , Linlin Wang , Wanlei Zhou