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Machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs) aims to remove undesired data, knowledge, and behaviors (e.g., for safety, privacy, or copyright) while preserving useful model capabilities. Despite rapid progress over the past two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chongyu Fan , Changsheng Wang , Yancheng Huang , Soumyadeep Pal , Sijia Liu

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

Removing the influence of a specified subset of training data from a machine learning model may be required to address issues such as privacy, fairness, and data quality. Retraining the model from scratch on the remaining data after removal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Salvatore Mercuri , Raad Khraishi , Ramin Okhrati , Devesh Batra , Conor Hamill , Taha Ghasempour , Andrew Nowlan

Various studies have attempted to remove sensitive or private knowledge from a language model to prevent its unauthorized exposure. However, prior studies have overlooked the complex and interconnected nature of knowledge, where related…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nakyeong Yang , Minsung Kim , Seunghyun Yoon , Joongbo Shin , Kyomin Jung

Machine Unlearning allows participants to remove their data from a trained machine learning model in order to preserve their privacy, and security. However, the machine unlearning literature for generative models is rather limited. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ayush K. Varshney , Vicenç Torra

With the increasing demand for the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a vital tool for enhancing trust and regulatory compliance by enabling the removal of sensitive data influences from machine learning (ML)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Yuhao Sun , Yihua Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Hongtao Xie , Sijia Liu

Effective adaptation to distribution shifts in training data is pivotal for sustaining robustness in neural networks, especially when removing specific biases or outdated information, a process known as machine unlearning. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Ling Han , Hao Huang , Dustin Scheinost , Mary-Anne Hartley , María Rodríguez Martínez

Machine unlearning (MU) seeks to remove the influence of specified data from a trained model in response to privacy requests or data poisoning. While certified unlearning has been analyzed in centralized and server-orchestrated federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Hithem Lamri , Michail Maniatakos

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a notable field, attracting significant attention for its ability to automatically generate intelligent contents for various application domains. However, LLMs still suffer from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Kongyang Chen , Zixin Wang , Bing Mi , Waixi Liu , Shaowei Wang , Xiaojun Ren , Jiaxing Shen

Machine unlearning is the problem of removing the effect of a subset of training data (the ''forget set'') from a trained model without damaging the model's utility e.g. to comply with users' requests to delete their data, or remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Kairan Zhao , Meghdad Kurmanji , George-Octavian Bărbulescu , Eleni Triantafillou , Peter Triantafillou

We present DiffExplainer, a novel framework that, leveraging language-vision models, enables multimodal global explainability. DiffExplainer employs diffusion models conditioned on optimized text prompts, synthesizing images that maximize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Matteo Pennisi , Giovanni Bellitto , Simone Palazzo , Mubarak Shah , Concetto Spampinato

In this paper, we present DiffusionVLA, a novel framework that seamlessly combines the autoregression model with the diffusion model for learning visuomotor policy. Central to our approach is a next-token prediction objective, enabling the…

The objective of machine unlearning (MU) is to eliminate previously learned data from a model. However, it is challenging to strike a balance between computation cost and performance when using existing MU techniques. Taking inspiration…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Zonglin Di , Zhaowei Zhu , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Zafar Takhirov , Bo Jiang , Yuanshun Yao , Sijia Liu , Yang Liu

Post-hoc unlearning has emerged as a practical mechanism for removing undesirable concepts from large text-to-image diffusion models. However, prior work primarily evaluates unlearning through erasure success; its impact on broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , Ali Aghayari , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Machine unlearning aims to efficiently remove the influence of specific training data from a model without full retraining. While much progress has been made in unlearning for LLMs, document classification models remain relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Aadya Goel , Mayuri Sridhar

Text guided diffusion models are used by millions of users, but can be easily exploited to produce harmful content. Concept unlearning methods aim at reducing the models' likelihood of generating harmful content. Traditionally, this has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mansi , Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Soteris Demetriou

Recent advances in machine learning, particularly in Natural Language Processing (NLP), have produced powerful models trained on vast datasets. However, these models risk leaking sensitive information, raising privacy concerns. In response,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Haoyu Tang , Ye Liu , Xi Zhao , Xukai Liu , Yanghai Zhang , Kai Zhang , Xiaofang Zhou , Enhong Chen

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data from a learned model without full retraining. While recent work has begun to explore unlearning in quantum machine learning, existing approaches largely rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nausherwan Malik , Zubair Khalid , Muhammad Faryad

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) may memorize sensitive cross-modal information during pretraining. However, existing MLLM unlearning benchmarks rely on synthetic knowledge injection or complete subject-level deletion, which fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jiahui Guang , Zexun Zhan , Zhenlin Xu , Cuiyun Gao , Haiyan Wang , Jing Li , Zhaoquan Gu , Yanchun Zhang

Removing information from a machine learning model is a non-trivial task that requires to partially revert the training process. This task is unavoidable when sensitive data, such as credit card numbers or passwords, accidentally enter the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Alexander Warnecke , Lukas Pirch , Christian Wressnegger , Konrad Rieck