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Graph unlearning, which involves deleting graph elements such as nodes, node labels, and relationships from a trained graph neural network (GNN) model, is crucial for real-world applications where data elements may become irrelevant,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Jiali Cheng , George Dasoulas , Huan He , Chirag Agarwal , Marinka Zitnik

Graph unlearning methods aim to efficiently remove the impact of sensitive data from trained GNNs without full retraining, assuming that deleted information cannot be recovered. In this work, we challenge this assumption by introducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xiaorui Liu , Suhang Wang

Graph unlearning, which deletes graph elements such as nodes and edges from trained graph neural networks (GNNs), is crucial for real-world applications where graph data may contain outdated, inaccurate, or privacy-sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengfei Ding , Yan Wang , Guanfeng Liu , Jiajie Zhu

With increasing concerns about privacy attacks and potential sensitive information leakage, researchers have actively explored methods to efficiently remove sensitive training data and reduce privacy risks in graph neural network (GNN)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Faqian Guan , Tianqing Zhu , Zhoutian Wang , Wei Ren , Wanlei Zhou

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are increasingly used to model complex patterns in graph-structured data. However, enabling them to "forget" designated information remains challenging, especially under privacy regulations such as the GDPR.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Imran Ahsan , Hyunwook Yu , Jinsung Kim , Mucheol Kim

Graph unlearning has emerged as a pivotal method to delete information from a pre-trained graph neural network (GNN). One may delete nodes, a class of nodes, edges, or a class of edges. An unlearning method enables the GNN model to comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yash Sinha , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Graph unlearning (GU), which removes nodes, edges, or features from trained graph neural networks (GNNs), is crucial in Web applications where graph data may contain sensitive, mislabeled, or malicious information. However, existing GU…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Pengfei Ding , Yan Wang , Guanfeng Liu

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

Machine unlearning is an emerging field that selectively removes specific data samples from a trained model. This capability is crucial for addressing privacy concerns, complying with data protection regulations, and correcting errors or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Zitong Li , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

With growing demands for data privacy and model robustness, graph unlearning (GU), which erases the influence of specific data on trained GNN models, has gained significant attention. However, existing exact unlearning methods suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Fan Li , Xiaoyang Wang , Dawei Cheng , Wenjie Zhang , Ying Zhang , Xuemin Lin

With growing emphasis on privacy regulations, machine unlearning has become increasingly critical in real-world applications such as social networks and recommender systems, many of which are naturally represented as graphs. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Ziheng Chen , Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri , Kaushiki Nag , Lu Lin , Sijia Liu , Xiangguo Sun , Gabriele Tolomei

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been increasingly deployed in a plethora of applications. However, the graph data used for training may contain sensitive personal information of the involved individuals. Once trained, GNNs typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Yushun Dong , Binchi Zhang , Zhenyu Lei , Na Zou , Jundong Li

Graph unlearning emerges as a crucial advancement in the pursuit of responsible AI, providing the means to remove sensitive data traces from trained models, thereby upholding the \textit{right to be forgotten}. It is evident that graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Anwar Said , Ngoc N. Tran , Yuying Zhao , Tyler Derr , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

Graph unlearning technology has become increasingly important since the advent of the `right to be forgotten' and the growing concerns about the privacy and security of artificial intelligence. Graph unlearning aims to quickly eliminate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Yi Li , Shichao Zhang , Guixian Zhang , Debo Cheng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are widely used for learning from graph-structured data in domains such as social networks, recommender systems, and financial platforms. To comply with privacy regulations like the GDPR, CCPA, and PIPEDA,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Suhang Wang

Graph Machine Learning is essential for understanding and analyzing relational data. However, privacy-sensitive applications demand the ability to efficiently remove sensitive information from trained graph neural networks (GNNs), avoiding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Bowen Fan , Yuming Ai , Xunkai Li , Zhilin Guo , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

It is often desirable to remove (a.k.a. unlearn) a specific part of the training data from a trained neural network model. A typical application scenario is to protect the data holder's right to be forgotten, which has been promoted by many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xuran Li , Jingyi Wang , Xiaohan Yuan , Peixin Zhang

Dynamic graph neural networks (DGNNs) have emerged and been widely deployed in various web applications (e.g., Reddit) to serve users (e.g., personalized content delivery) due to their remarkable ability to learn from complex and dynamic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 He Zhang , Bang Wu , Xiangwen Yang , Xingliang Yuan , Xiaoning Liu , Xun Yi

The demand for data privacy has led to the development of frameworks like Federated Graph Learning (FGL), which facilitate decentralized model training. However, a significant operational challenge in such systems is adhering to the right…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuming Ai , Xunkai Li , Jiaqi Chao , Bowen Fan , Zhengyu Wu , Yinlin Zhu , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

The growing enforcement of the right to be forgotten regulations has propelled recent advances in certified (graph) unlearning strategies to comply with data removal requests from deployed machine learning (ML) models. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 O. Deniz Kose , Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen
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