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Machine unlearning is an emerging technology that has come to attract widespread attention. A number of factors, including regulations and laws, privacy, and usability concerns, have resulted in this need to allow a trained model to forget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

The growing enforcement of the right to be forgotten regulations has propelled recent advances in certified (graph) unlearning strategies to comply with data removal requests from deployed machine learning (ML) models. Motivated by the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 O. Deniz Kose , Gonzalo Mateos , Yanning Shen

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

Recently, the enactment of privacy regulations has promoted the rise of the machine unlearning paradigm. Existing studies of machine unlearning mainly focus on sample-wise unlearning, such that a learnt model will not expose user's privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Tao Guo , Song Guo , Jiewei Zhang , Wenchao Xu , Junxiao Wang

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

How can we effectively remove or ''unlearn'' undesirable information, such as specific features or the influence of individual data points, from a learning outcome while minimizing utility loss and ensuring rigorous guarantees? We introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shizhou Xu , Thomas Strohmer

Graph unlearning emerges as a crucial advancement in the pursuit of responsible AI, providing the means to remove sensitive data traces from trained models, thereby upholding the \textit{right to be forgotten}. It is evident that graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Anwar Said , Ngoc N. Tran , Yuying Zhao , Tyler Derr , Mudassir Shabbir , Waseem Abbas , Xenofon Koutsoukos

To comply with AI and data regulations, the need to forget private or copyrighted information from trained machine learning models is increasingly important. The key challenge in unlearning is forgetting the necessary data in a timely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jack Foster , Kyle Fogarty , Stefan Schoepf , Zack Dugue , Cengiz Öztireli , Alexandra Brintrup

Graph-structured data is ubiquitous in practice and often processed using graph neural networks (GNNs). With the adoption of recent laws ensuring the ``right to be forgotten'', the problem of graph data removal has become of significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Eli Chien , Chao Pan , Olgica Milenkovic

The rapid proliferation of image generation models and other artificial intelligence (AI) systems has intensified concerns regarding data privacy and user consent. As the availability of public datasets declines, major technology companies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Ishrak Hamim Mahi , Siam Ferdous , Md Sakib Sadman Badhon , Nabid Hasan Omi , Md Habibun Nabi Hemel , Farig Yousuf Sadeque , Md. Tanzim Reza

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training samples from a trained model without full retraining. While prior work has largely focused on privacy-motivated settings, we recast unlearning as a general-purpose tool…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 George R. Nahass , Zhu Wang , Homa Rashidisabet , Won Hwa Kim , Sasha Hubschman , Jeffrey C. Peterson , Chad A. Purnell , Pete Setabutr , Ann Q. Tran , Darvin Yi , Sathya N. Ravi

Machine unlearning is a process of removing the impact of some training data from the machine learning (ML) models upon receiving removal requests. While straightforward and legitimate, retraining the ML model from scratch incurs a high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Min Chen , Zhikun Zhang , Tianhao Wang , Michael Backes , Mathias Humbert , Yang Zhang

The growing concern over training data privacy has elevated the "Right to be Forgotten" into a critical requirement, thereby raising the demand for effective Machine Unlearning. However, existing unlearning approaches commonly suffer from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Haoyu Wang , Zhuo Huang , Xiaolong Wang , Bo Han , Zhiwei Lin , Tongliang Liu

Machine Unlearning allows participants to remove their data from a trained machine learning model in order to preserve their privacy, and security. However, the machine unlearning literature for generative models is rather limited. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ayush K. Varshney , Vicenç Torra

Removing information from a machine learning model is a non-trivial task that requires to partially revert the training process. This task is unavoidable when sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or passwords, accidentally enter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Alexander Warnecke , Lukas Pirch , Christian Wressnegger , Konrad Rieck

This work delves into the complexities of machine unlearning in the face of distributional shifts, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by non-uniform feature and label removal. With the advent of regulations like the GDPR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Ling Han , Nanqing Luo , Hao Huang , Jing Chen , Mary-Anne Hartley

Document understanding models have recently demonstrated remarkable performance by leveraging extensive collections of user documents. However, since documents often contain large amounts of personal data, their usage can pose a threat to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Lei Kang , Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Fei Yang , Lluis Gomez , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Modern privacy regulations grant citizens the right to be forgotten by products, services and companies. In case of machine learning (ML) applications, this necessitates deletion of data not only from storage archives but also from ML…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Vikram S Chundawat , Ayush K Tarun , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

We introduce machine unlearning for speech tasks, a novel and underexplored research problem that aims to efficiently and effectively remove the influence of specific data from trained speech models without full retraining. This has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

Graph unlearning, which deletes graph elements such as nodes and edges from trained graph neural networks (GNNs), is crucial for real-world applications where graph data may contain outdated, inaccurate, or privacy-sensitive information.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pengfei Ding , Yan Wang , Guanfeng Liu , Jiajie Zhu
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