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The right to be forgotten, as stated in most data regulations, poses an underexplored challenge in federated learning (FL), leading to the development of federated unlearning (FU). However, current FU approaches often face trade-offs…

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As a means to balance the growth of the AI industry with the need for privacy protection, machine unlearning plays a crucial role in realizing the ``right to be forgotten'' in artificial intelligence. This technique enables AI systems to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Eun-Ju Park , Youjin Shin , Simon S. Woo

Machine Learning (ML) models have been shown to potentially leak sensitive information, thus raising privacy concerns in ML-driven applications. This inspired recent research on removing the influence of specific data samples from a trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Youyang Qu , Xin Yuan , Ming Ding , Wei Ni , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on extensive corpora inevitably retain sensitive data, such as personal privacy information and copyrighted material. Recent advancements in knowledge unlearning involve updating LLM parameters to erase…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Bozhong Tian , Xiaozhuan Liang , Siyuan Cheng , Qingbin Liu , Mengru Wang , Dianbo Sui , Xi Chen , Huajun Chen , Ningyu Zhang

Machine unlearning is the task of updating machine learning (ML) models after a subset of the training data they were trained on is deleted. Methods for the task are desired to combine effectiveness and efficiency, i.e., they should…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Ananth Mahadevan , Michael Mathioudakis

With the widespread application of artificial intelligence technologies in face recognition and other fields, data privacy security issues have received extensive attention, especially the \textit{right to be forgotten} emphasized by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Weidong Zheng , Kongyang Chen , Yao Huang , Yuanwei Guo , Yatie Xiao

Machine unlearning is the process of removing the impact of a particular set of training samples from a pretrained model. It aims to fulfill the "right to be forgotten", which grants the individuals such as patients the right to reconsider…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Reza Nasirigerdeh , Nader Razmi , Julia A. Schnabel , Daniel Rueckert , Georgios Kaissis

Recent work has shown that diffusion models memorize and reproduce training data examples. At the same time, large copyright lawsuits and legislation such as GDPR have highlighted the need for erasing datapoints from diffusion models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Silas Alberti , Kenan Hasanaliyev , Manav Shah , Stefano Ermon

Federated learning (FL), as a type of collaborative machine learning framework, is capable of preserving private data from mobile terminals (MTs) while training the data into useful models. Nevertheless, from a viewpoint of information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Kang Wei , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Chuan Ma , Hang Su , Bo Zhang , H. Vincent Poor

As Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities learned from vast corpora, concerns regarding data privacy and safety are receiving increasing attention. LLM unlearning, which aims to remove the influence of specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Kai Qin , Jiaqi Wu , Jianxiang He , Haoyuan Sun , Yifei Zhao , Bin Liang , Yongzhe Chang , Tiantian Zhang , Houde Liu

In federated learning, federated unlearning is a technique that provides clients with a rollback mechanism that allows them to withdraw their data contribution without training from scratch. However, existing research has not considered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Xinrui Yu , Wenbin Pei , Bing Xue , Qiang Zhang

Face recognition systems rely on learning highly discriminative and compact identity clusters to enable accurate retrieval. However, as with other surveillance-oriented technologies, such systems raise serious privacy concerns due to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Mikhail Zakharov

Federated learning enables collaborative machine learning while preserving data privacy. However, the rise of federated unlearning, designed to allow clients to erase their data from the global model, introduces new privacy concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Bocheng Ju , Junchao Fan , Jiaqi Liu , Xiaolin Chang

Most deep-learning-based image classification methods assume that all samples are generated under an independent and identically distributed (IID) setting. However, out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization is more common in practice, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Xin Guo , Zhengxu Yu , Chao Xiang , Zhongming Jin , Jianqiang Huang , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Xian-Sheng Hua

With the extensive use of machine learning technologies, data providers encounter increasing privacy risks. Recent legislation, such as GDPR, obligates organizations to remove requested data and its influence from a trained model. Machine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hengzhu Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Ping Xiong

The right to be forgotten states that a data owner has the right to erase their data from an entity storing it. In the context of machine learning (ML), the right to be forgotten requires an ML model owner to remove the data owner's data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Min Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Yang Zhang

Machine unlearning has emerged as a new paradigm to deliberately forget data samples from a given model in order to adhere to stringent regulations. However, existing machine unlearning methods have been primarily focused on classification…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Guihong Li , Hsiang Hsu , Chun-Fu Chen , Radu Marculescu

Deleting data from a trained machine learning (ML) model is a critical task in many applications. For example, we may want to remove the influence of training points that might be out of date or outliers. Regulations such as EU's General…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Zachary Izzo , Mary Anne Smart , Kamalika Chaudhuri , James Zou

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

This study investigates the concept of the `right to be forgotten' within the context of large language models (LLMs). We explore machine unlearning as a pivotal solution, with a focus on pre-trained models--a notably under-researched area.…

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