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Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, growing concerns have emerged over the misuse of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful data during training. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jie Ren , Zhenwei Dai , Xianfeng Tang , Yue Xing , Shenglai Zeng , Hui Liu , Jingying Zeng , Qiankun Peng , Samarth Varshney , Suhang Wang , Qi He , Charu C. Aggarwal , Hui Liu

As AI models are trained on ever-expanding datasets, the ability to remove the influence of specific data from trained models has become essential for privacy protection and regulatory compliance. Unlearning addresses this challenge by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Shizhou Xu , Yuan Ni , Stefan Broecker , Thomas Strohmer

Graph unlearning has emerged as a pivotal research area for ensuring privacy protection, given the widespread adoption of Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in applications involving sensitive user data. Among existing studies, certified graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Lu Yi , Zhewei Wei

Machine unlearning is a process to remove specific data points from a trained model while maintaining the performance on the retain data, addressing privacy or legal requirements. Despite its importance, existing unlearning evaluations tend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yongwoo Kim , Sungmin Cha , Donghyun Kim

Deep neural networks have achieved remarkable success across various applications; however, their vulnerability to backdoor attacks poses severe security risks -- especially in situations where only a limited set of clean samples is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Nay Myat Min , Long H. Pham , Jun Sun

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

Unlearning has been proposed to remove copyrighted and privacy-sensitive data from Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing approaches primarily rely on fine-tuning-based methods, which can be categorized into gradient ascent-based (GA-based)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Jie Ren , Zhenwei Dai , Xianfeng Tang , Hui Liu , Jingying Zeng , Zhen Li , Rahul Goutam , Suhang Wang , Yue Xing , Qi He , Hui Liu

To protect users' right to be forgotten in federated learning, federated unlearning aims at eliminating the impact of leaving users' data on the global learned model. The current research in federated unlearning mainly concentrated on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Ningning Ding , Zhenyu Sun , Ermin Wei , Randall Berry

Large language models (LLMs) can internalize private or harmful content, motivating unlearning that removes a forget set while preserving retaining knowledge. However, forgetting updates often cause collateral degradation on retaining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duo Zhou , Yuji Zhang , Tianxin Wei , Ruizhong Qiu , Ke Yang , Xiao Lin , Cheng Qian , Jingrui He , Hanghang Tong , Chengxiang Zhai , Heng Ji , Huan Zhang

As machine learning becomes more widely used for critical applications, the need to study its implications in privacy turns to be urgent. Given access to the target model and auxiliary information, the model inversion attack aims to infer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Zhenya Huang , Hao Wang , Chengqiang Lu , Chuanren Liu , Enhong Chen

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

As the right to be forgotten has been legislated worldwide, many studies attempt to design unlearning mechanisms to protect users' privacy when they want to leave machine learning service platforms. Specifically, machine unlearning is to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weiqi Wang , Zhiyi Tian , Chenhan Zhang , Shui Yu

In recent years, Federated Learning (FL) has garnered significant attention as a distributed machine learning paradigm. To facilitate the implementation of the right to be forgotten, the concept of federated machine unlearning (FMU) has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Hanlin Gu , Gongxi Zhu , Jie Zhang , Xinyuan Zhao , Yuxing Han , Lixin Fan , Qiang Yang

Growing concerns surrounding AI safety and data privacy have driven the development of Machine Unlearning as a potential solution. However, current machine unlearning algorithms are designed to complement the offline training paradigm. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Sayanta Adhikari , Vishnuprasadh Kumaravelu , P. K. Srijith

In response to legislation mandating companies to honor the \textit{right to be forgotten} by erasing user data, it has become imperative to enable data removal in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) where multiple parties provide private…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jian Zhang , Bowen Li Jie Li , Chentao Wu

Today, computer systems hold large amounts of personal data. Yet while such an abundance of data allows breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, and especially machine learning (ML), its existence can be a threat to user privacy, and it…

As privacy and security take center stage in AI, machine unlearning, the ability to erase specific knowledge from models, has garnered increasing attention. However, existing methods overly prioritize efficiency and aggressive forgetting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Jiaxing Miao , Liang Hu , Qi Zhang , Lai Zhong Yuan , Usman Naseem

Link prediction in graph data uses various algorithms and Graph Nerual Network (GNN) models to predict potential relationships between graph nodes. These techniques have found widespread use in numerous real-world applications, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Mingchen Li , Di Zhuang , Keyu Chen , Dumindu Samaraweera , Morris Chang

Pretrained knowledge memorized in LLMs raises critical concerns over safety and privacy, which has motivated LLM Unlearning as a technique for selectively removing the influences of undesirable knowledge. Existing approaches, rooted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zhengbang Yang , Yisheng Zhong , Junyuan Hong , Zhuangdi Zhu

Continual graph learning (CGL) aims to enable graph neural networks to incrementally learn from a stream of graph structured data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Existing methods particularly those based on experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xuling Zhang , Jindong Li , Yifei Zhang , Menglin Yang