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Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained models while preserving general utility. Existing approximate unlearning methods often rely on performance-degradation heuristics, such as loss maximization or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jonas Mirlach , Sonia Laguna , Julia E. Vogt

Machine Unlearning (MU) algorithms have become increasingly critical due to the imperative adherence to data privacy regulations. The primary objective of MU is to erase the influence of specific data samples on a given model without the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Zheyuan Liu , Guangyao Dou , Yijun Tian , Chunhui Zhang , Eli Chien , Ziwei Zhu

Multimodal sentiment analysis aims to effectively integrate information from various sources to infer sentiment, where in many cases there are no annotations for unimodal labels. Therefore, most works rely on multimodal labels for training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Sijie Mai , Yu Zhao , Ying Zeng , Jianhua Yao , Haifeng Hu

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific information, e.g. sensitive or undesirable content, from large language models (LLMs) while preserving overall performance. We propose an inference-time unlearning algorithm that uses contrastive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Vinith M. Suriyakumar , Ayush Sekhari , Ashia Wilson

The trustworthy machine learning (ML) community is increasingly recognizing the crucial need for models capable of selectively 'unlearning' data points after training. This leads to the problem of machine unlearning (MU), aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Alfred Hero , Sijia Liu

Unpaired Multi-Modal Learning (UMML) which leverages unpaired multi-modal data to boost model performance on each individual modality has attracted a lot of research interests in medical image analysis. However, existing UMML methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Lei Zhu , Yanyu Xu , Huazhu Fu , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

Recent advancements in deep models have highlighted the need for intelligent systems that combine continual learning (CL) for knowledge acquisition with machine unlearning (MU) for data removal, forming the Continual Learning-Unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhehao Huang , Xinwen Cheng , Jie Zhang , Jinghao Zheng , Haoran Wang , Zhengbao He , Tao Li , Xiaolin Huang

This paper introduces Unilogit, a novel self-distillation method for machine unlearning in Large Language Models. Unilogit addresses the challenge of selectively forgetting specific information while maintaining overall model utility, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Stefan Vasilev , Christian Herold , Baohao Liao , Seyyed Hadi Hashemi , Shahram Khadivi , Christof Monz

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to remove target training data from a trained model so that the removed data no longer influences the model's behavior, fulfilling "right to be forgotten" obligations under data privacy laws. Yet, we observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jaeung Lee , Suhyeon Yu , Yurim Jang , Simon S. Woo , Jaemin Jo

As machine learning continues to develop, and data misuse scandals become more prevalent, individuals are becoming increasingly concerned about their personal information and are advocating for the right to remove their data. Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Hui Sun , Tianqing Zhu , Wenhan Chang , Wanlei Zhou

Label smoothing is an effective regularization tool for deep neural networks (DNNs), which generates soft labels by applying a weighted average between the uniform distribution and the hard label. It is often used to reduce the overfitting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Chang-Bin Zhang , Peng-Tao Jiang , Qibin Hou , Yunchao Wei , Qi Han , Zhen Li , Ming-Ming Cheng

Data-free knowledge distillation is a challenging model lightweight task for scenarios in which the original dataset is not available. Previous methods require a lot of extra computational costs to update one or more generators and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yuzheng Wang , Zuhao Ge , Zhaoyu Chen , Xian Liu , Chuangjia Ma , Yunquan Sun , Lizhe Qi

One of the goals of language model unlearning is to reduce memorization of selected text instances while retaining the model's general abilities. Despite various proposed methods, reducing memorization of large datasets without noticeable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yegor Klochkov

Previous research has indicated that deep neural network based models for time series classification (TSC) tasks are prone to overfitting. This issue can be mitigated by employing strategies that prevent the model from becoming overly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Hengyi Ma , Weitong Chen

Machine unlearning (MU) is to make a well-trained model behave as if it had never been trained on specific data. In today's over-parameterized models, dominated by neural networks, a common approach is to manually relabel data and fine-tune…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ruikai Yang , Mingzhen He , Zhengbao He , Youmei Qiu , Xiaolin Huang

Recent progress in Machine Unlearning (MU) has introduced solutions for the selective removal of private or sensitive information encoded within deep neural networks. Nonetheless, MU for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiahao Huo , Yibo Yan , Xu Zheng , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xin Zou , Zhihua Wei , Xuming Hu

Unsupervised Deep Distance Metric Learning (UDML) aims to learn sample similarities in the embedding space from an unlabeled dataset. Traditional UDML methods usually use the triplet loss or pairwise loss which requires the mining of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Binh X. Nguyen , Binh D. Nguyen , Gustavo Carneiro , Erman Tjiputra , Quang D. Tran , Thanh-Toan Do

Large Language Models (LLMs) unlearning is crucial for removing hazardous or privacy-leaking information from the model. Practical LLM unlearning demands satisfying multiple challenging objectives simultaneously: removing undesirable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yisheng Zhong , Sijia Liu , Zhuangdi Zhu

With the rapid advancement of AI applications, the growing needs for data privacy and model robustness have highlighted the importance of machine unlearning, especially in thriving graph-based scenarios. However, most existing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xunkai Li , Yulin Zhao , Zhengyu Wu , Wentao Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to remove the information of specific training data from a trained model, ensuring compliance with privacy regulations and user requests. While one line of existing MU methods relies on linear parameter updates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yingdan Shi , Ren Wang
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