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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

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) highlights the practical necessity for the right to be forgotten for all clients, allowing them to request data deletion from the machine learning models service provider. This necessity has spurred a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Hanlin Gu , Win Kent Ong , Chee Seng Chan , Lixin Fan

Large language models deployed in sensitive applications increasingly require the ability to unlearn specific knowledge, such as user requests, copyrighted materials, or outdated information, without retraining from scratch to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sadia Asif , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

The increasing data privacy concerns in recommendation systems have made federated recommendations (FedRecs) attract more and more attention. Existing FedRecs mainly focus on how to effectively and securely learn personal interests and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wei Yuan , Hongzhi Yin , Fangzhao Wu , Shijie Zhang , Tieke He , Hao Wang

The proliferation of connected devices and privacy-sensitive applications has accelerated the adoption of Federated Learning (FL), a decentralized paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data. While FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wathsara Daluwatta , Shehan Edirimannage , Charitha Elvitigala , Asitha Kottahachchi Kankanamge Don , Ibrahim Khalil , Heng Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, but privacy regulations such as the right to be forgotten require FL systems to remove the influence of previously used training data upon request.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yue Li , Mingmin Chu , Xilei Yang , Da Xiao , Ziqi Xu , Wei Shao , Qipeng Song , Hui Li

Privacy concerns associated with machine learning models have driven research into machine unlearning, which aims to erase the memory of specific target training data from already trained models. This issue also arises in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yuyuan Li , Jiaming Zhang , Yixiu Liu , Chaochao Chen

Federated unlearning (FU) algorithms allow clients in federated settings to exercise their ''right to be forgotten'' by removing the influence of their data from a collaboratively trained model. Existing FU methods maintain data privacy by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Samaneh Mohammadi , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Iraklis Symeonidis , Ali Balador , Tanir Ozcelebi , Francesco Flammini , Nirvana Meratnia

Federated Learning (FL) has evolved as a powerful tool for collaborative model training across multiple entities, ensuring data privacy in sensitive sectors such as healthcare and finance. However, the introduction of the Right to Be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Kahou Tam , Kewei Xu , Li Li , Huazhu Fu

Federated learning (FL), introduced in 2017, facilitates collaborative learning between non-trusting parties with no need for the parties to explicitly share their data among themselves. This allows training models on user data while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Hyejun Jeong , Shiqing Ma , Amir Houmansadr

Federated learning (FL) increasingly needs machine unlearning to comply with privacy regulations. However, existing federated unlearning approaches may overlook the overlapping information between the unlearning and remaining data, leading…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jiaheng Wei , Yanjun Zhang , He Zhang , Leo Yu Zhang , Chao Chen , Kok-Leong Ong , Jun Zhang , Yang Xiang

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

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed optimization of machine learning models while protecting privacy by independently training local models on each client and then aggregating parameters on a central server, thereby producing an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Chencheng Xu , Zhiwei Hong , Minlie Huang , Tao Jiang

Due to growing privacy concerns, machine unlearning, which aims at enabling machine learning models to ``forget" specific training data, has received increasing attention. Among existing methods, influence-based unlearning has emerged as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Jiawei Liu , Chenwang Wu , Defu Lian , Enhong Chen

Federated clustering (FC) is an unsupervised learning problem that arises in a number of practical applications, including personalized recommender and healthcare systems. With the adoption of recent laws ensuring the "right to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chao Pan , Jin Sima , Saurav Prakash , Vishal Rana , Olgica Milenkovic

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

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

Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clients to train a machine learning model collaboratively without exchanging their local data. Federated unlearning is an inverse FL process that aims to remove a specified target client's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Guanghao Li , Li Shen , Yan Sun , Yue Hu , Han Hu , Dacheng Tao

Federated Learning (FL) enables the collaborative training of machine learning models without requiring centralized collection of user data. To comply with the right to be forgotten, FL clients should be able to request the removal of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Alessio Mora , Lorenzo Valerio , Paolo Bellavista , Andrea Passarella

Major data protection regulations all mention the "right to be forgotten," and that's what pushed federated unlearning (FU) techniques forward. But one stubborn issue remains: catastrophic forgetting--you erase the target knowledge, yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Hangyi Shen , Yizhi Pan , Tiansuo Li , Weiqi Jiang , Guanqun Sun