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With privacy legislation empowering the users with the right to be forgotten, it has become essential to make a model amenable for forgetting some of its training data. However, existing unlearning methods in the machine learning context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Anisa Halimi , Swanand Kadhe , Ambrish Rawat , Nathalie Baracaldo

Federated Learning (FL) is a popular algorithm to train machine learning models on user data constrained to edge devices (for example, mobile phones) due to privacy concerns. Typically, FL is trained with the assumption that no part of the…

Federated Unlearning (FU) enables the removal of specific clients' data influence from trained models. However, in non-IID settings, removing clients creates critical side effects: remaining clients with similar data distributions suffer…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Jiaqi Shao , Tao Lin , Xiaojin Zhang , Qiang Yang , Bing Luo

With the introduction of regulations related to the ``right to be forgotten", federated learning (FL) is facing new privacy compliance challenges. To address these challenges, researchers have proposed federated unlearning (FU). However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Lei Zhou , Youwen Zhu

Federated learning facilitates collaborative machine learning, enabling multiple participants to collectively develop a shared model while preserving the privacy of individual data. The growing importance of the "right to be forgotten"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yu Jiang , Chee Wei Tan , Kwok-Yan Lam

To protect users' right to be forgotten in federated learning, federated unlearning aims at eliminating the impact of leaving users' data on the global learned model. The current research in federated unlearning mainly concentrated on…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Ningning Ding , Zhenyu Sun , Ermin Wei , Randall Berry

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training without centralizing raw data, but privacy regulations such as the right to be forgotten require FL systems to remove the influence of previously used training data upon request.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yue Li , Mingmin Chu , Xilei Yang , Da Xiao , Ziqi Xu , Wei Shao , Qipeng Song , Hui Li

Federated learning (FL) has enabled collaborative model training across decentralized data sources or clients. While adding new participants to a shared model does not pose great technical hurdles, the removal of a participant and their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Vikram S Chundawat , Pushkar Niroula , Prasanna Dhungana , Stefan Schoepf , Murari Mandal , Alexandra Brintrup

Machine Unlearning is an emerging field that addresses data privacy issues by enabling the removal of private or irrelevant data from the Machine Learning process. Challenges related to privacy and model efficiency arise from the use of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Lin Li , Haoran Xie , Taotao Cai , Xiaofeng Zhu , Qing Li

Federated learning (FL) is an emerging technique that trains massive and geographically distributed edge data while maintaining privacy. However, FL has inherent challenges in terms of fairness and computational efficiency due to the rising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yingchun Wang , Jingcai Guo , Jie Zhang , Song Guo , Weizhan Zhang , Qinghua Zheng

Federated Learning (FL) emerged as a learning method to enable the server to train models over data distributed among various clients. These clients are protective about their data being leaked to the server, any other client, or an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Uday Bhaskar , Varul Srivastava , Avyukta Manjunatha Vummintala , Naresh Manwani , Sujit Gujar

Federated Learning (FL) can be vulnerable to attacks, such as model poisoning, where adversaries send malicious local weights to compromise the global model. Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a solution to address such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Nicolò Romandini , Cristian Borcea , Rebecca Montanari , Luca Foschini

Federated learning increasingly operates in a large-model regime where communication, memory, and computation are all scarce. Typically, non-IID client data induce drift that degrades the stability and performance of local training.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shuchen Zhu , Zhengyang Huang , Yuqi Xu , Peijin Li

Federated Learning (FL) plays a critical role in distributed systems. In these systems, data privacy and confidentiality hold paramount importance, particularly within edge-based data processing systems such as IoT devices deployed in smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Humaid Ahmed Desai , Amr Hilal , Hoda Eldardiry

Federated unlearning has become an attractive approach to address privacy concerns in collaborative machine learning, for situations when sensitive data is remembered by AI models during the machine learning process. It enables the removal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yu Jiang , Xindi Tong , Ziyao Liu , Xiaoxi Zhang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Chee Wei Tan

Federated unlearning has emerged as a promising paradigm to erase the client-level data effect without affecting the performance of collaborative learning models. However, the federated unlearning process often introduces extensive storage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Yijing Lin , Zhipeng Gao , Hongyang Du , Dusit Niyato , Gui Gui , Shuguang Cui , Jinke Ren

This paper reports on findings from a comparative study on the effectiveness and efficiency of federated unlearning strategies within Federated Online Learning to Rank (FOLTR), with specific attention to systematically analysing the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yiling Tao , Shuyi Wang , Jiaxi Yang , Guido Zuccon

Federated learning (FL) is a collaborative learning paradigm where participants jointly train a powerful model without sharing their private data. One desirable property for FL is the implementation of the right to be forgotten (RTBF),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Xiangshan Gao , Xingjun Ma , Jingyi Wang , Youcheng Sun , Bo Li , Shouling Ji , Peng Cheng , Jiming Chen

Federated learning (FL) and split learning (SL) are two popular distributed machine learning approaches. Both follow a model-to-data scenario; clients train and test machine learning models without sharing raw data. SL provides better model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Chandra Thapa , M. A. P. Chamikara , Seyit Camtepe , Lichao Sun

The rapid evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) technology has spurred the widespread adoption of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in various daily life domains. Federated Learning (FL) is frequently utilized to build a global HAR model by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Kongyang Chen , Dongping zhang , Yaping Chai , Weibin Zhang , Shaowei Wang , Jiaxing Shen