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Neural networks unintentionally memorize training data, creating privacy risks in federated learning (FL) systems, such as inference and reconstruction attacks on sensitive data. To mitigate these risks and to comply with privacy…

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Learning algorithms and data are the driving forces for machine learning to bring about tremendous transformation of industrial intelligence. However, individuals' right to retract their personal data and relevant data privacy regulations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Junde Li , Swaroop Ghosh

The growing development of artificial intelligence based solutions, together with privacy legislation, has driven the rise of the so-called privacy preserving machine learning architectures, such as federated learning. While federated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Judith Sáinz-Pardo Díaz , Álvaro López García

With the introduction of data protection and privacy regulations, it has become crucial to remove the lineage of data on demand from a machine learning (ML) model. In the last few years, there have been notable developments in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Ayush K Tarun , Vikram S Chundawat , Murari Mandal , Mohan Kankanhalli

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into real-world applications, raising concerns about privacy, security and the need to remove undesirable knowledge. Machine Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution, yet faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yisheng Zhong , Zhengbang Yang , Zhuangdi Zhu

Machine unlearning is a critical area of research aimed at safeguarding data privacy by enabling the removal of sensitive information from machine learning models. One unique challenge in this field is catastrophic unlearning, where erasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhuoyi Peng , Yixuan Tang , Yi Yang

Machine unlearning has garnered significant attention due to its ability to selectively erase knowledge obtained from specific training data samples in an already trained machine learning model. This capability enables data holders to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Esmaeil S. Nadimi

The growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI) in customer support has significantly improved operational efficiency and user experience. However, traditional machine learning (ML) approaches, which require extensive local training on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Anant Prakash Awasthi , Girdhar Gopal Agarwal , Chandraketu Singh , Rakshit Varma , Sanchit Sharma

Many individuals are concerned about the governance of machine learning systems and the prevention of algorithmic harms. The EU's recent General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been seen as a core tool for achieving better governance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Michael Veale , Reuben Binns , Lilian Edwards

Machine unlearning, which enables a model to forget specific data upon request, is increasingly relevant in the era of privacy-centric machine learning, particularly within federated learning (FL) environments. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Chenguang Xiao , Abhirup Ghosh , Han Wu , Shuo Wang , Diederick van Thiel

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

Machine unlearning has emerged as a critical capability for addressing privacy, safety, and regulatory concerns in large language models (LLMs). Existing methods operate at the sequence level, applying uniform updates across all tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiawei Wu , Doudou Zhou

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

Federated Learning (FL) is a Machine Learning (ML) technique that aims to reduce the threats to user data privacy. Training is done using the raw data on the users' device, called clients, and only the training results, called gradients,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Sneha Kanchan , Jae Won Jang , Jun Yong Yoon , Bong Jun Choi

Federated unlearning (FU) algorithms allow clients in federated settings to exercise their ''right to be forgotten'' by removing the influence of their data from a collaboratively trained model. Existing FU methods maintain data privacy by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Samaneh Mohammadi , Vasileios Tsouvalas , Iraklis Symeonidis , Ali Balador , Tanir Ozcelebi , Francesco Flammini , Nirvana Meratnia

As privacy concerns escalate in the realm of machine learning, data owners now have the option to utilize machine unlearning to remove their data from machine learning models, following recent legislation. To enhance transparency in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Binchi Zhang , Zihan Chen , Cong Shen , Jundong Li

There is a growing demand for efficient data removal to comply with regulations like the GDPR and to mitigate the influence of biased or corrupted data. This has motivated the field of machine unlearning, which aims to eliminate the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-08 Jingyi Xie , Linjun Zhang , Sai Li

Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of particular data or class from trained models to meet privacy, legal, or ethical requirements. Existing unlearning methods tend to forget shallowly: phenomenon of an unlearned model pretend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jaeheun Jung , Bosung Jung , Suhyun Bae , Donghun Lee

Ethical and privacy issues inherent in artificial intelligence (AI) applications have been a growing concern with the rapid spread of deep learning. Machine unlearning (MU) is the research area that addresses these issues by making a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Tomoya Yamashita , Masanori Yamada , Takashi Shibata

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