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Over recent decades, machine learning has significantly advanced network communication, enabling improved decision-making, user behavior analysis, and fault detection. Decentralized approaches, where participants exchange computation…

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Growing data privacy demands, driven by regulations like GDPR and CCPA, require machine unlearning methods capable of swiftly removing the influence of specific training points. Although verified approaches like SISA, using data slicing and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yijun Quan , Zushu Li , Giovanni Montana

In the context of cloud computing, services are held on cloud servers, where the clients send their data to the server and obtain the results returned by server. However, the computation, data and results are prone to tampering due to the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Yancheng Zhang , Mengxin Zheng , Xun Chen , Jingtong Hu , Weidong Shi , Lei Ju , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou

We present a secure and efficient string-matching platform leveraging zk-SNARKs (Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Arguments of Knowledge) to address the challenge of detecting sensitive information leakage while preserving data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Taoran Li , Taobo Liao

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific samples from a trained model. A key challenge in this process is over-unlearning, where the model's performance on the remaining data significantly drops due to the change in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Xin Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Machine Learning models thrive on vast datasets, continuously adapting to provide accurate predictions and recommendations. However, in an era dominated by privacy concerns, Machine Unlearning emerges as a transformative approach, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Robert Dilworth

Graph unlearning methods aim to efficiently remove the impact of sensitive data from trained GNNs without full retraining, assuming that deleted information cannot be recovered. In this work, we challenge this assumption by introducing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Zhang , Yilong Wang , Zhiwei Zhang , Xiaorui Liu , Suhang Wang

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) as deep learning models working on graph-structure data have achieved advanced performance in many works. However, it has been proved repeatedly that, not all edges in a graph are necessary for the training of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Zishan Gu , Jintang Li , Liang Chen

In the last decade, data-driven algorithms outperformed traditional optimization-based algorithms in many research areas, such as computer vision, natural language processing, etc. However, extensive data usages bring a new challenge or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-02 Shih-Chun Lin , Chia-Hung Lin

Machine Unlearning (MUL) is crucial for privacy protection and content regulation, yet recent studies reveal that traces of forgotten information persist in unlearned models, enabling adversaries to resurface removed knowledge. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hao Xuan , Xingyu Li

Zero-knowledge proofs (zk-Proofs) are communication protocols by which a prover can demonstrate to a verifier that it possesses a solution to a given public problem without revealing the content of the solution. Arbitrary computations can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Armando Cruz

Zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) enable computational integrity and privacy by allowing one party to prove the truth of a statement without revealing underlying data. Compared with alternatives such as homomorphic encryption and secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ryan Lavin , Xuekai Liu , Hardhik Mohanty , Logan Norman , Giovanni Zaarour , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We investigate the effectiveness of Explainable AI (XAI) in verifying Machine Unlearning (MU) within the context of harbor front monitoring, focusing on data privacy and regulatory compliance. With the increasing need to adhere to privacy…

Machine learning components are now central to AI-infused software systems, from recommendations and code assistants to clinical decision support. As regulations and governance frameworks increasingly require deleting sensitive data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Anna Mazhar , Sainyam Galhotra

The right to be forgotten mandates that machine learning models enable the erasure of a data owner's data and information from a trained model. Removing data from the dataset alone is inadequate, as machine learning models can memorize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xiaoyu Xia , Ziqi Wang , Ruoxi Sun , Bowen Liu , Ibrahim Khalil , Minhui Xue

It is often desirable to remove (a.k.a. unlearn) a specific part of the training data from a trained neural network model. A typical application scenario is to protect the data holder's right to be forgotten, which has been promoted by many…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xuran Li , Jingyi Wang , Xiaohan Yuan , Peixin Zhang

Privacy concerns in machine learning systems have grown significantly with the increasing reliance on sensitive user data for training large-scale models. This paper introduces a novel framework combining Probably Approximately Correct…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Guilhem Repetto , Nojan Sheybani , Gabrielle De Micheli , Farinaz Koushanfar

Zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zk-SNARKs) are a powerful tool for proving computation correctness, attracting significant interest from researchers, developers, and users. However, the complexity of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Junkai Liang , Daqi Hu , Pengfei Wu , Yunbo Yang , Qingni Shen , Zhonghai Wu

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

Over the past few years, AI methods of generating images have been increasing in capabilities, with recent breakthroughs enabling high-resolution, photorealistic "deepfakes" (artificially generated images with the purpose of misinformation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Daniel Kang , Tatsunori Hashimoto , Ion Stoica , Yi Sun