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The right to be forgotten, also known as the right to erasure, is the right of individuals to have their data erased from an entity storing it. The status of this long held notion was legally solidified recently by the General Data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-02 David Marco Sommer , Liwei Song , Sameer Wagh , Prateek Mittal

As the right to be forgotten has been legislated worldwide, many studies attempt to design unlearning mechanisms to protect users' privacy when they want to leave machine learning service platforms. Specifically, machine unlearning is to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Weiqi Wang , Zhiyi Tian , Chenhan Zhang , Shui Yu

During pretraining, LLMs inadvertently memorize sensitive or copyrighted data, posing significant compliance challenges under legal frameworks like the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Fulfilling these mandates demands techniques that can remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Efstratios Zaradoukas , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

With the continued advancement and widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) models across various domains, ensuring user privacy and data security has become a paramount concern. In compliance with data privacy regulations, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nexhi Sula , Abhinav Kumar , Jie Hou , Han Wang , Reza Tourani

Machine unlearning algorithms aim to efficiently remove data from a model without retraining it from scratch, in order to remove corrupted or outdated data or respect a user's ``right to be forgotten." Certified machine unlearning is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Siqiao Mu , Diego Klabjan

The inability to filter out in advance all potentially problematic data from the pre-training of large language models has given rise to the need for methods for unlearning specific pieces of knowledge after training. Existing techniques…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Seyun Bae , Seokhan Lee , Eunho Yang

Machine unlearning aims to remove knowledge of the specific training data in a well-trained model. Currently, machine unlearning methods typically handle all forgetting data in a single batch, removing the corresponding knowledge all at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Shaofei Shen , Chenhao Zhang , Yawen Zhao , Alina Bialkowski , Weitong Chen , Miao Xu

In recent years, unlearning techniques, which are methods for inducing a model to "forget" previously learned information, have attracted attention as a way to address privacy and copyright concerns in large language models (LLMs) and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tatsuki Kawakami , Kazuki Egashira , Atsuyuki Miyai , Go Irie , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained language models. In real-world deployments, unlearning requests often arrive sequentially, which challenges existing fine-tuning-based methods: fine-tuning each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Ruihao Pan , Suhang Wang

The growing concern over training data privacy has elevated the "Right to be Forgotten" into a critical requirement, thereby raising the demand for effective Machine Unlearning. However, existing unlearning approaches commonly suffer from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Haoyu Wang , Zhuo Huang , Xiaolong Wang , Bo Han , Zhiwei Lin , Tongliang Liu

Machine unlearning for large language models often faces a privacy dilemma in which strict constraints prohibit sharing either the server's parameters or the client's forget set. To address this dual non-disclosure constraint, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Tiantong Wang , Xinyu Yan , Tiantong Wu , Yurong Hao , Pengjun Xie , Wei Yang Bryan Lim

Multimodal recommendation systems (MRS) jointly model user-item interaction graphs and rich item content, but this tight coupling makes user data difficult to remove once learned. Approximate machine unlearning offers an efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhanting Zhou , KaHou Tam , Ziqiang Zheng , Zeyu Ma , Yang Yang

Recommendation unlearning is an emerging task to serve users for erasing unusable data (e.g., some historical behaviors) from a well-trained recommender model. Existing methods process unlearning requests by fully or partially retraining…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yang Zhang , Zhiyu Hu , Yimeng Bai , Jiancan Wu , Qifan Wang , Fuli Feng

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

In the current digital era, facial recognition systems offer significant utility and have been widely integrated into modern technological infrastructures; however, their widespread use has also raised serious privacy concerns, prompting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Fnu Shivam , Nima Najafzadeh , Yenumula Reddy , Prashnna Gyawali

Machine unlearning (MU) is to make a well-trained model behave as if it had never been trained on specific data. In today's over-parameterized models, dominated by neural networks, a common approach is to manually relabel data and fine-tune…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Ruikai Yang , Mingzhen He , Zhengbao He , Youmei Qiu , Xiaolin Huang

Machine unlearning is the process of efficiently removing specific information from a trained machine learning model without retraining from scratch. Existing unlearning methods, which often provide provable guarantees, typically involve…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Somnath Basu Roy Chowdhury , Rahul Kidambi , Avinava Dubey , David Wang , Gokhan Mergen , Amr Ahmed , Aranyak Mehta

Conformal unlearning aims to ensure that a trained conformal predictor miscovers data points with specific shared characteristics, such as those from a particular label class, associated with a specific user, or belonging to a defined…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yahya Alkhatib , Muhammad Ahmar Jamal , Wee Peng Tay

Machine unlearning is an emerging technology that has come to attract widespread attention. A number of factors, including regulations and laws, privacy, and usability concerns, have resulted in this need to allow a trained model to forget…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Wanlei Zhou , Wei Zhao

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
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