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Data privacy and security have become a non-negligible factor in load forecasting. Previous researches mainly focus on training stage enhancement. However, once the model is trained and deployed, it may need to `forget' (i.e., remove the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Wangkun Xu , Fei Teng

With the increasing importance of data privacy and security, federated unlearning has emerged as a novel research field dedicated to ensuring that federated learning models no longer retain or leak relevant information once specific data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Houzhe Wang , Xiaojie Zhu , Chi Chen

Machine unlearning aims to eliminate the influence of a subset of training samples (i.e., unlearning samples) from a trained model. Effectively and efficiently removing the unlearning samples without negatively impacting the overall model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Hong kyu Lee , Qiuchen Zhang , Carl Yang , Jian Lou , Li Xiong

Recent legal frameworks have mandated the right to be forgotten, obligating the removal of specific data upon user requests. Machine Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution by selectively removing learned information from machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiang Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Wenqi Wei

We introduce ContinualFlow, a principled framework for targeted unlearning in generative models via Flow Matching. Our method leverages an energy-based reweighting loss to softly subtract undesired regions of the data distribution without…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Lorenzo Simone , Davide Bacciu , Shuangge Ma

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

Deep generative models, while revolutionizing fields like image and text generation, largely operate as opaque ``black boxes'', hindering human understanding, control, and alignment. While methods like sparse autoencoders (SAEs) show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Lingjing Kong , Shaoan Xie , Guangyi Chen , Yuewen Sun , Xiangchen Song , Eric P. Xing , Kun Zhang

Machine learning models may inadvertently memorize sensitive, unauthorized, or malicious data, posing risks of privacy breaches, security vulnerabilities, and performance degradation. To address these issues, machine unlearning has emerged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Jie Xu , Zihan Wu , Cong Wang , Xiaohua Jia

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific samples from a trained model. A key challenge in this process is over-unlearning, where the model's performance on the remaining data significantly drops due to the change in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Xin Yu , Wanlei Zhou

It often happens that some sensitive personal information, such as credit card numbers or passwords, are mistakenly incorporated in the training of machine learning models and need to be removed afterwards. The removal of such information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Saber Malekmohammadi , Hong kyu Lee , Li Xiong

Machine learning models are extensively being used to make decisions that have a significant impact on human life. These models are trained over historical data that may contain information about sensitive attributes such as race, sex,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ramanujam Madhavan , Mohit Wadhwa

By removing irrelevant and redundant features, feature selection aims to find a good representation of the original features. With the prevalence of unlabeled data, unsupervised feature selection has been proven effective in alleviating the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Ziyuan Lin , Deanna Needell

Due to the vast testing space, the increasing demand for effective and efficient testing of deep neural networks (DNNs) has led to the development of various DNN test case prioritization techniques. However, the fact that DNNs can deliver…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jialuo Chen , Jingyi Wang , Xiyue Zhang , Youcheng Sun , Marta Kwiatkowska , Jiming Chen , Peng Cheng

As the data-driven decision process becomes dominating for industrial applications, fairness-aware machine learning arouses great attention in various areas. This work proposes fairness penalties learned by neural networks with a simple…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-03-12 Jinwon Sohn , Qifan Song , Guang Lin

Machine unlearning offers effective solutions for revoking the influence of specific training data on pre-trained model parameters. While existing approaches address unlearning for classification and generative models, they overlook an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yihan Wang , Yiwei Lu , Guojun Zhang , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic , Yaoliang Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

Generative models unfairly penalize data belonging to minority classes, suffer from model autophagy disorder (MADness), and learn biased estimates of the underlying distribution parameters. Our theoretical and empirical results show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Paul Mayer , Lorenzo Luzi , Ali Siahkoohi , Don H. Johnson , Richard G. Baraniuk

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

We tackle the problem of feature unlearning from a pre-trained image generative model: GANs and VAEs. Unlike a common unlearning task where an unlearning target is a subset of the training set, we aim to unlearn a specific feature, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Saemi Moon , Seunghyuk Cho , Dongwoo Kim

Federated learning is a promising privacy-preserving paradigm for distributed machine learning. In this context, there is sometimes a need for a specialized process called machine unlearning, which is required when the effect of some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Philip S. Yu

Learning-based approaches are emerging as an effective approach for safety filters for black-box dynamical systems. Existing methods have relied on certificate functions like Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) and Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Will Lavanakul , Jason J. Choi , Koushil Sreenath , Claire J. Tomlin