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As some recent information security legislation endowed users with unconditional rights to be forgotten by any trained machine learning model, personalized IoT service providers have to put unlearning functionality into their consideration.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Guanhua Ye , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

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

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) can recognize individuals in images and disclose sensitive personal information about them, raising critical privacy concerns. Machine unlearning aims to remove such knowledge from the model. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Minsung Kim , Nakyeong Yang , Kyomin Jung

Machine unlearning has the potential to improve the safety of large language models (LLMs) by removing sensitive or harmful information post hoc. A key challenge in unlearning involves balancing between forget quality (effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shengyuan Hu , Neil Kale , Pratiksha Thaker , Yiwei Fu , Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

Personalized Federated Learning (PFL) focuses on tailoring models to individual IIoT clients in federated learning by addressing data heterogeneity and diverse user needs. Although existing studies have proposed effective PFL solutions from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Yingchao Wang , Wenqi Niu

Large-scale generative models have shown impressive image-generation capabilities, propelled by massive data. However, this often inadvertently leads to the generation of harmful or inappropriate content and raises copyright concerns.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Myeongseob Ko , Henry Li , Zhun Wang , Jonathan Patsenker , Jiachen T. Wang , Qinbin Li , Ming Jin , Dawn Song , Ruoxi Jia

Large language models (LLMs) are trained on massive datasets that may include private or copyrighted content. Due to growing privacy and ownership concerns, data owners may request the removal of their data from trained models. Machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Zhihao Liu , Jian Lou , Yuke Hu , Xiaochen Li , Yitian Chen , Tailun Chen , Zhizhen Qin , Kui Ren , Zhan Qin

Current unlearning methods for LLMs optimize on the private information they seek to remove by incorporating it into their fine-tuning data. We argue this not only risks reinforcing exposure to sensitive data, but also fundamentally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Yan Scholten , Sophie Xhonneux , Leo Schwinn , Stephan Günnemann

The significant advancements in large language models (LLMs) give rise to a promising research direction, i.e., leveraging LLMs as recommenders (LLMRec). The efficacy of LLMRec arises from the open-world knowledge and reasoning capabilities…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hangyu Wang , Jianghao Lin , Bo Chen , Yang Yang , Ruiming Tang , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

In the context of machine unlearning, the primary challenge lies in effectively removing traces of private data from trained models while maintaining model performance and security against privacy attacks like membership inference attacks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tao Huang , Ziyang Chen , Jiayang Meng , Qingyu Huang , Xu Yang , Xun Yi , Ibrahim Khalil

Machine unlearning is the process of removing the imprint left by specific data samples during the training of a machine learning model. AI developers, including those building personalized technologies, employ machine unlearning for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Hanyu Duan , Yi Yang , Ahmed Abbasi , Kar Yan Tam

Machine learning models often incorporate vast amounts of data, raising significant privacy concerns. Machine unlearning, the ability to remove the influence of specific data points from a trained model, addresses these concerns. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-14 David Zagardo

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

As the prevalence of data-driven technologies in healthcare continues to rise, concerns regarding data privacy and security become increasingly paramount. This thesis aims to address the vulnerability of personalized healthcare models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ahan Chatterjee , Sai Anirudh Aryasomayajula , Rajat Chaudhari , Subhajit Paul , Vishwa Mohan Singh

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable generative capabilities but raise ethical and security concerns by memorizing sensitive data, reinforcing biases, and producing harmful content. These risks have spurred interest in LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Changsheng Wang , Yihua Zhang , Dennis Wei , Jinghan Jia , Pin-Yu Chen , Sijia Liu

Modern large language models often encode sensitive, harmful, or copyrighted knowledge, raising the need for post-hoc unlearning-the ability to remove specific domains of knowledge from a model without full retraining. A major bottleneck in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Xiaoyuan Zhu , Muru Zhang , Ollie Liu , Robin Jia , Willie Neiswanger

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

Instruction-following large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have become widely popular among everyday users. However, these models inadvertently disclose private, sensitive information to their users, underscoring the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Minseok Choi , Daniel Rim , Dohyun Lee , Jaegul Choo

The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) have primarily focused on the process of learning from data to acquire knowledgeable learning systems. As these systems are increasingly deployed in critical areas, ensuring their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Wei Qian , Chenxu Zhao , Yangyi Li , Mengdi Huai

This study proposes a knowledge distillation algorithm based on large language models and feature alignment, aiming to effectively transfer the knowledge of large pre-trained models into lightweight student models, thereby reducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shuo Wang , Chihang Wang , Jia Gao , Zhen Qi , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao