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We formulate the machine unlearning problem as a general constrained optimization problem. It unifies the first-order methods from the approximate machine unlearning literature. This paper then introduces the concept of feasible updates as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Virgile Dine , Teddy Furon , Charly Faure

Machine unlearning aims to remove private or sensitive data from a pre-trained model while preserving the model's robustness. Despite recent advances, this technique has not been explored in medical image classification. This work evaluates…

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We introduce a novel, closed-form approach for selective unlearning in multimodal models, specifically targeting pretrained models such as CLIP. Our method leverages nullspace projection to erase the target class information embedded in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ashish Mishra , Tarun Kumar , Gyanaranjan Nayak , Arpit Shah , Suparna Bhattacharya , Martin Foltin

Machine Unlearning aims to remove undesired information from trained models without requiring full retraining from scratch. Despite recent advancements, their underlying loss landscapes and optimization dynamics received less attention. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Jiali Cheng , Hadi Amiri

Machine unlearning, i.e. having a model forget about some of its training data, has become increasingly more important as privacy legislation promotes variants of the right-to-be-forgotten. In the context of deep learning, approaches for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Anvith Thudi , Hengrui Jia , Ilia Shumailov , Nicolas Papernot

Machine unlearning aims to unlearn specified training data (e.g. sensitive or copyrighted material). A prominent approach is to fine-tune an existing model with an unlearning loss that retains overall utility. The space of suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pawel Batorski , Paul Swoboda

Unlearning in large foundation models (e.g., LLMs) is essential for enabling dynamic knowledge updates, enforcing data deletion rights, and correcting model behavior. However, existing unlearning methods often require full-model fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Yezi Liu , Hanning Chen , Wenjun Huang , Yang Ni , Mohsen Imani

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities, they unintentionally memorize sensitive data, posing critical privacy and security risks. Machine unlearning is pivotal for mitigating these risks, yet existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Pengyu Li , Lingling Zhang , Zhitao Gao , Yanrui Wu , Yuxuan Dong , Huan Liu , Bifan Wei , Jun Liu

In current AI era, users may request AI companies to delete their data from the training dataset due to the privacy concerns. As a model owner, retraining a model will consume significant computational resources. Therefore, machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Wenhan Chang , Tianqing Zhu , Heng Xu , Wenjian Liu , Wanlei Zhou

Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including attacks that leak information about the model's training data. There has recently been an increase in interest about how to best address privacy concerns, especially…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Keltin Grimes , Collin Abidi , Cole Frank , Shannon Gallagher

Image Generation models are a trending topic nowadays, with many people utilizing Artificial Intelligence models in order to generate images. There are many such models which, given a prompt of a text, will generate an image which depicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Udaya Shreyas , L. N. Aadarsh

Machine unlearning, the process of selectively removing data from trained models, is increasingly crucial for addressing privacy concerns and knowledge gaps post-deployment. Despite this importance, existing approaches are often heuristic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Youssef Allouah , Joshua Kazdan , Rachid Guerraoui , Sanmi Koyejo

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their performance can be severely degraded by noisy or corrupted training data. Conventional noise mitigation methods often rely on explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Deliang Jin , Gang Chen , Shuo Feng , Yufeng Ling , Haoran Zhu

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

While generative models have made significant advancements in recent years, they also raise concerns such as privacy breaches and biases. Machine unlearning has emerged as a viable solution, aiming to remove specific training data, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Xiaohua Feng , Yuyuan Li , Chaochao Chen , Li Zhang , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Xiaolin Zheng

Machine unlearning refers to removing the influence of a specified subset of training data from a machine learning model, efficiently, after it has already been trained. This is important for key applications, including making the model…

Large language models may encode sensitive information or outdated knowledge that needs to be removed, to ensure responsible and compliant model responses. Unlearning has emerged as an efficient alternative to full retraining, aiming to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuefeng Peng , Parnian Afshar , Megan Ganji , Thomas Butler , Amir Houmansadr , Mingxian Wang , Dezhi Hong

Machine unlearning, the ability to erase the effect of specific training samples without retraining from scratch, is critical for privacy, regulation, and efficiency. However, most progress in unlearning has been empirical, with little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Wei-Kai Chang , Rajiv Khanna

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse images but suffer from training data memorization, raising critical privacy and safety concerns. Data unlearning has emerged to mitigate this issue by removing the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qitan Shi , Cheng Jin , Jiawei Zhang , Yuantao Gu

Machine unlearning--the ability to remove designated concepts from a pre-trained model--has advanced rapidly, particularly for text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods typically assume that unlearning requests arrive all at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Justin Lee , Zheda Mai , Jinsu Yoo , Chongyu Fan , Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao