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We characterize the effectiveness of Sharpness-aware minimization (SAM) under machine unlearning scheme, where unlearning forget signals interferes with learning retain signals. While previous work prove that SAM improves generalization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haoran Tang , Rajiv Khanna

Building robust deterministic neural networks remains a challenge. On the one hand, some approaches improve out-of-distribution detection at the cost of reducing classification accuracy in some situations. On the other hand, some methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-09 David Macêdo , Cleber Zanchettin , Teresa Ludermir

With recent legislation on the right to be forgotten, machine unlearning has emerged as a crucial research area. It facilitates the removal of a user's data from federated trained machine learning models without the necessity for retraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Houzhe Wang , Xiaojie Zhu , Chi Chen , Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo

Erasing harmful or proprietary concepts from powerful text to image generators is an emerging safety requirement, yet current "concept erasure" techniques either collapse image quality, rely on brittle adversarial losses, or demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Abhiram Kusumba , Maitreya Patel , Kyle Min , Changhoon Kim , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Generative artificial intelligence revolutionized society. Current models are trained by minimizing the distance between the produced data and the training set. Consequently, development is plateauing as they are intrinsically data-hungry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Mattia Miotto , Lorenzo Monacelli

This paper introduces a continual learning approach named MagMax, which utilizes model merging to enable large pre-trained models to continuously learn from new data without forgetting previously acquired knowledge. Distinct from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Daniel Marczak , Bartłomiej Twardowski , Tomasz Trzciński , Sebastian Cygert

The advent of open-source AI communities has produced a cornucopia of powerful text-guided diffusion models that are trained on various datasets. While few explorations have been conducted on ensembling such models to combine their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Jing Zhao , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Long Lan , Wenjing Yang

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific outputs from trained models, often at the concept level, such as forgetting all occurrences of a particular celebrity or filtering content via text prompts. However, many undesired outputs, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kyungryeol Lee , Kyeonghyun Lee , Seongmin Hong , Byung Hyun Lee , Se Young Chun

Generative diffusion processes are an emerging and effective tool for image and speech generation. In the existing methods, the underlying noise distribution of the diffusion process is Gaussian noise. However, fitting distributions with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Eliya Nachmani , Robin San Roman , Lior Wolf

Machine unlearning aims to unlearn specified training data (e.g. sensitive or copyrighted material). A prominent approach is to fine-tune an existing model with an unlearning loss that retains overall utility. The space of suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Pawel Batorski , Paul Swoboda

This paper studies stable learning methods for generative models that enable high-quality data generation. Noise injection is commonly used to stabilize learning. However, selecting a suitable noise distribution is challenging.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-29 Yoshitaka Koike , Takumi Nakagawa , Hiroki Waida , Takafumi Kanamori

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

In many learning based control methodologies, learning the unknown dynamic model precedes the control phase, while the aim is to control the system such that it remains in some safe region of the state space. In this work, our aim is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Farhad Farokhi , Alex Leong , Iman Shames , Mohammad Zamani

Generative diffusion processes are an emerging and effective tool for image and speech generation. In the existing methods, the underline noise distribution of the diffusion process is Gaussian noise. However, fitting distributions with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Eliya Nachmani , Robin San Roman , Lior Wolf

Estimating and disentangling epistemic uncertainty, uncertainty that is reducible with more training data, and aleatoric uncertainty, uncertainty that is inherent to the task at hand, is critically important when applying machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Matthew A. Chan , Maria J. Molina , Christopher A. Metzler

Machine unlearning is a prominent and challenging field, driven by regulatory demands for user data deletion and heightened privacy awareness. Existing approaches involve retraining model or multiple finetuning steps for each deletion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Sangamesh Kodge , Gobinda Saha , Kaushik Roy

With the increasing emphasis on data privacy, the significance of machine unlearning has grown substantially. Class unlearning, which involves enabling a trained model to forget data belonging to a specific class learned before, is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Chenhao Zhang , Shaofei Shen , Yawen Zhao , Weitong Tony Chen , Miao Xu

Machine unlearning strives to uphold the data owners' right to be forgotten by enabling models to selectively forget specific data. Recent advances suggest pre-computing and storing statistics extracted from second-order information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Xinbao Qiao , Meng Zhang , Ming Tang , Ermin Wei

The powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models have raised growing privacy and safety concerns regarding generating sensitive or undesired content. In response, machine unlearning (MU) -- commonly referred to as concept erasure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinwen Cheng , Jingyuan Zhang , Zhehao Huang , Yingwen Wu , Xiaolin Huang

Exact unlearning was first introduced as a privacy mechanism that allowed a user to retract their data from machine learning models on request. Shortly after, inexact schemes were proposed to mitigate the impractical costs associated with…