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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

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

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving machine learning has spurred interest in federated unlearning, which enables the selective removal of data from models trained in federated systems. However, developing federated unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Yang Zhao , Jiaxi Yang , Yiling Tao , Lixu Wang , Xiaoxiao Li , Dusit Niyato , H. Vincent Poor

The right to be forgotten is a fundamental principle of privacy-preserving regulations and extends to Machine Learning (ML) paradigms such as Federated Learning (FL). While FL enhances privacy by enabling collaborative model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Alessio Mora , Carlo Mazzocca , Rebecca Montanari , Paolo Bellavista

In Federated Learning (FL), multiple clients collaboratively train a model without sharing raw data. This paradigm can be further enhanced by Differential Privacy (DP) to protect local data from information inference attacks and is thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Jianan Chen , Qin Hu , Fangtian Zhong , Yan Zhuang , Minghui Xu

Federated Unlearning (FUL) aims to remove specific participants' data contributions from a trained Federated Learning model, thereby ensuring data privacy and compliance with regulatory requirements. Despite its potential, progress in FUL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Minh-Duong Nguyen , Senura Hansaja , Le-Tuan Nguyen , Quoc-Viet Pham , Ken-Tye Yong , Nguyen H. Tran , Dung D. Le

We study federated unlearning, a novel problem to eliminate the impact of specific clients or data points on the global model learned via federated learning (FL). This problem is driven by the right to be forgotten and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Youming Tao , Cheng-Long Wang , Miao Pan , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Di Wang

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

In recent years, Federated Unlearning (FU) has gained attention for addressing the removal of a client's influence from the global model in Federated Learning (FL) systems, thereby ensuring the ``right to be forgotten" (RTBF).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ziyao Liu , Huanyi Ye , Yu Jiang , Jiyuan Shen , Jiale Guo , Ivan Tjuawinata , Kwok-Yan Lam

Federated Learning (FL) offers a promising paradigm for training Large Language Models (LLMs) in a decentralized manner while preserving data privacy and minimizing communication overhead. This survey examines recent advancements in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Youyang Qu , Ming Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Longxiang Gao , Shui Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Federated unlearning (FU) aims to remove a participant's data contributions from a trained federated learning (FL) model, ensuring privacy and regulatory compliance. Traditional FU methods often depend on auxiliary storage on either the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Yasser H. Khalil , Leo Brunswic , Soufiane Lamghari , Xu Li , Mahdi Beitollahi , Xi Chen

Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a powerful tool that enables the selective removal of client data to effectively address data contamination and meet strict privacy regulations in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. Although FU has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zihao Ding , Beining Wu , Jun Huang

Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) offers a novel paradigm in machine learning, enabling distinct entities to train models cooperatively while maintaining data privacy. This method is particularly pertinent when entities possess datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Mengde Han , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Huan Huo , Wanlei Zhou

Federated Unlearning (FU) enables clients to selectively remove the influence of specific data from a trained federated learning model, addressing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements. However, existing FU methods often struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Qi Guo , Zhen Tian , Minghao Yao , Yong Qi , Saiyu Qi , Yun Li , Jin Song Dong

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed learning paradigm. Within the scope of privacy preservation, information privacy regulations such as GDPR entitle users to request the removal (or unlearning) of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ayush K. Varshney , Konstantinos Vandikas , Vicenç Torra

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 unlearning (FUL) enables removing the data influence from the model trained across distributed clients, upholding the right to be forgotten as mandated by privacy regulations. FUL facilitates a value exchange where clients gain…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Thanh Linh Nguyen , Marcela Tuler de Oliveira , An Braeken , Aaron Yi Ding , Quoc-Viet Pham

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm. Practical needs of the "right to be forgotten" and countering data poisoning attacks call for efficient techniques that can remove, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Gaoyang Liu , Xiaoqiang Ma , Yang Yang , Chen Wang , Jiangchuan Liu

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…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Zhipeng Deng , Luyang Luo , Hao Chen

Federated Unlearning (FU) is gaining prominence for its capability to eliminate influences of Federated Learning (FL) users' data from trained global FL models. A straightforward FU method involves removing the unlearned users and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Ziyao Liu , Yu Jiang , Weifeng Jiang , Jiale Guo , Jun Zhao , Kwok-Yan Lam