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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…

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Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving user privacy. Recently, Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged to address the "right to be forgotten" and to remove the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ruinan Jin , Minghui Chen , Qiong Zhang , Xiaoxiao Li

The recent rapid growth of visual generative models trained on vast web-scale datasets has created significant tension with data privacy regulations and copyright laws, such as GDPR's ``Right to be Forgotten.'' This necessitates machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Naveen George , Naoki Murata , Yuhta Takida , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Yuki Mitsufuji

We propose an approach to address two issues that commonly occur during training of unsupervised GANs. First, since GANs use only a continuous latent distribution to embed multiple classes or clusters of data, they often do not correctly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Youngjin Kim , Minjung Kim , Gunhee Kim

Federated Learning is a promising paradigm for privacy-preserving collaborative model training. In practice, it is essential not only to continuously train the model to acquire new knowledge but also to guarantee old knowledge the right to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Zhengyi Zhong , Weidong Bao , Ji Wang , Shuai Zhang , Jingxuan Zhou , Lingjuan Lyu , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Federated Unlearning (FU) enables clients to remove the influence of specific data from a collaboratively trained shared global model, addressing regulatory requirements such as GDPR and CCPA. However, this unlearning process introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Hithem Lamri , Manaar Alam , Haiyan Jiang , Michail Maniatakos

Regulations introduced by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU or California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in the US have included provisions on the \textit{right to be forgotten} that mandates industry applications to remove…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar , Rashmi Gangadharaiah , Dan Roth

Privacy regulations require the erasure of data from deep learning models. This is a significant challenge that is amplified in Federated Learning, where data remains on clients, making full retraining or coordinated updates often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Antonio Balordi , Lorenzo Manini , Fabio Stella , Alessio Merlo

Class imbalance is an inherent problem in many machine learning classification tasks. This often leads to trained models that are unusable for any practical purpose. In this study we explore an unsupervised approach to address these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ademola Okerinde , Lior Shamir , William Hsu , Tom Theis , Nasik Nafi

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of a designated forget set from a trained model while preserving utility on the retained data. In modern deep networks, approximate unlearning frequently fails under large or adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Mohammad Partohaghighi , Roummel Marcia , Bruce J. West , YangQuan Chen

Machine unlearning is an emerging technology that removes a subset of the training data from a trained model without significantly affecting the model performance on the remaining data. This topic is becoming increasingly important in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Laiqiao Qin , Tianqing Zhu , Linlin Wang , Wanlei Zhou

Class-level machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specified classes while preserving model utility on retained classes. Existing methods are commonly evaluated by retain-set accuracy, forget-set accuracy, and unlearning time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Weidong Zheng , Kongyang Chen , Yuanwei Guo , Yatie Xiao

As massive medical data become available with an increasing number of scans, expanding classes, and varying sources, prevalent training paradigms -- where AI is trained with multiple passes over fixed, finite datasets -- face significant…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-08 Yu-Cheng Chou , Zongwei Zhou , Alan Yuille

Machine unlearning techniques, which involve retracting data records and reducing influence of said data on trained models, help with the user privacy protection objective but incur significant computational costs. Weight perturbation-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Zhiwei Zuo , Zhuo Tang , Kenli Li , Anwitaman Datta

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are a class of generative models used for various applications, but they have been known to suffer from the mode collapse problem, in which some modes of the target distribution are ignored by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Karttikeya Mangalam , Rohin Garg

Deployed text-to-image diffusion models increasingly require post-hoc concept unlearning for copyright claims, artist opt-outs, safety updates, and protected-content mitigation without full retraining. A central challenge is erase-retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ashutosh Ranjan , Vivek Srivastava , Shirish Karande , Murari Mandal

We introduce GUIDE, a novel continual learning approach that directs diffusion models to rehearse samples at risk of being forgotten. Existing generative strategies combat catastrophic forgetting by randomly sampling rehearsal examples from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Bartosz Cywiński , Kamil Deja , Tomasz Trzciński , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Łukasz Kuciński

Scarcity of data and incremental learning of new tasks pose two major bottlenecks for many modern computer vision algorithms. The phenomenon of catastrophic forgetting, i.e., the model's inability to classify previously learned data after…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Sanchar Palit , Biplab Banerjee , Subhasis Chaudhuri

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific data influences from trained models, a capability essential for adhering to copyright laws and ensuring AI safety. Current unlearning metrics typically measure success by monitoring the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Hengrui Jia , Taoran Li , Jonas Guan , Varun Chandrasekaran

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…

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