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Machine Unlearning (MU) aims at removing the influence of specific data from a pretrained model while preserving performance on the remaining data. In this work, a novel perspective for MU is presented upon low-dimensional feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Junxu Liu , Yaxin Xiao , Qingqing Ye , Jian Sun , Haibo Hu

Data augmentation is essential to achieve state-of-the-art performance in many deep learning applications. However, the most effective augmentation techniques become computationally prohibitive for even medium-sized datasets. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Tian Yu Liu , Baharan Mirzasoleiman

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 (MUL) focuses on removing the influence of specific subsets of data (such as noisy, poisoned, or privacy-sensitive data) from pretrained models. MUL methods typically rely on specialized forms of fine-tuning. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kairan Zhao , Peter Triantafillou

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

Data augmentation is used in machine learning to make the classifier invariant to label-preserving transformations. Usually this invariance is only encouraged implicitly by including a single augmented input during training. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Aleksander Botev , Matthias Bauer , Soham De

Deep neural networks have emerged as very successful tools for image restoration and reconstruction tasks. These networks are often trained end-to-end to directly reconstruct an image from a noisy or corrupted measurement of that image. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-30 Zalan Fabian , Reinhard Heckel , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

Large Language Models (LLMs) inevitably acquire harmful information during training on massive datasets. LLM unlearning aims to eliminate the influence of such harmful information while maintaining the model's overall performance. Existing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Wenyu Wang , Mengqi Zhang , Xiaotian Ye , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen , Pengjie Ren

Aiming to produce sufficient and diverse training samples, data augmentation has been demonstrated for its effectiveness in training deep models. Regarding that the criterion of the best augmentation is challenging to define, we in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-23 Yinghuan Shi , Tiexin Qin , Yong Liu , Jiwen Lu , Yang Gao , Dinggang Shen

Meta-learning methods typically follow a two-loop framework, where each loop potentially suffers from notorious overfitting, hindering rapid adaptation and generalization to new tasks. Existing schemes solve it by enhancing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Ren Wang , Haoliang Sun , Qi Wei , Xiushan Nie , Yuling Ma , Yilong Yin

In supervised machine learning (SML) research, large training datasets are essential for valid results. However, obtaining primary data in learning analytics (LA) is challenging. Data augmentation can address this by expanding and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Valdemar Švábenský , Conrad Borchers , Elizabeth B. Cloude , Atsushi Shimada

In active learning, the focus is mainly on the selection strategy of unlabeled data for enhancing the generalization capability of the next learning cycle. For this, various uncertainty measurement methods have been proposed. On the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-06 SeulGi Hong , Heonjin Ha , Junmo Kim , Min-Kook Choi

The trustworthy machine learning (ML) community is increasingly recognizing the crucial need for models capable of selectively 'unlearning' data points after training. This leads to the problem of machine unlearning (MU), aiming to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Alfred Hero , Sijia Liu

A recurring problem faced when training neural networks is that there is typically not enough data to maximize the generalization capability of deep neural networks(DNN). There are many techniques to address this, including data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Joseph Lemley , Shabab Bazrafkan , Peter Corcoran

In response to recent data regulation requirements, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a critical process to remove the influence of specific examples from a given model. Although exact unlearning can be achieved through complete model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Parikshit Ram , Yuguang Yao , Gaowen Liu , Yang Liu , Pranay Sharma , Sijia Liu

Machine unlearning (MUL) refers to the problem of making a pre-trained model selectively forget some training instances or class(es) while retaining performance on the remaining dataset. Existing MUL research involves fine-tuning using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Soumya Roy , Soumya Banerjee , Vinay Verma , Soumik Dasgupta , Deepak Gupta , Piyush Rai

Machine unlearning, where users can request the deletion of a forget dataset, is becoming increasingly important because of numerous privacy regulations. Initial works on ``exact'' unlearning (e.g., retraining) incur large computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny , Hari Sundaram , Varun Chandrasekaran

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, growing concerns have emerged over the misuse of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful data during training. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jie Ren , Zhenwei Dai , Xianfeng Tang , Yue Xing , Shenglai Zeng , Hui Liu , Jingying Zeng , Qiankun Peng , Samarth Varshney , Suhang Wang , Qi He , Charu C. Aggarwal , Hui Liu

Label noise is common in large real-world datasets, and its presence harms the training process of deep neural networks. Although several works have focused on the training strategies to address this problem, there are few studies that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Emeson Santana , Gustavo Carneiro , Filipe R. Cordeiro

The application of deep learning to build accurate predictive models from functional neuroimaging data is often hindered by limited dataset sizes. Though data augmentation can help mitigate such training obstacles, most data augmentation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Kevin P. Nguyen , Cherise Chin Fatt , Alex Treacher , Cooper Mellema , Madhukar H. Trivedi , Albert Montillo