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Machine unlearning, a process enabling pre-trained models to remove the influence of specific training samples, has attracted significant attention in recent years. Although extensive research has focused on developing efficient machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Heng Xu , Tianqing Zhu , Dayong Ye , Lefeng Zhang , Le Wang , Wanlei Zhou

As deep learning models are becoming larger and data-hungrier, there are growing ethical, legal and technical concerns over use of data: in practice, agreements on data use may change over time, rendering previously-used training data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Nazanin Mohammadi Sepahvand , Vincent Dumoulin , Eleni Triantafillou , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Recent work has shown that diffusion models memorize and reproduce training data examples. At the same time, large copyright lawsuits and legislation such as GDPR have highlighted the need for erasing datapoints from diffusion models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Silas Alberti , Kenan Hasanaliyev , Manav Shah , Stefano Ermon

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse images but suffer from training data memorization, raising critical privacy and safety concerns. Data unlearning has emerged to mitigate this issue by removing the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qitan Shi , Cheng Jin , Jiawei Zhang , Yuantao Gu

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

For a responsible and safe deployment of diffusion models in various domains, regulating the generated outputs from these models is desirable because such models could generate undesired, violent, and obscene outputs. To tackle this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Subhodip Panda , Varun M S , Shreyans Jain , Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Prathosh A. P

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific data from trained models while preserving general utility. Existing approximate unlearning methods often rely on performance-degradation heuristics, such as loss maximization or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Jonas Mirlach , Sonia Laguna , Julia E. Vogt

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

With the rapid progress of diffusion-based content generation, significant efforts are being made to unlearn harmful or copyrighted concepts from pretrained diffusion models (DMs) to prevent potential model misuse. However, it is observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongcheng Gao , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Taihang Hu , Zhijie Deng , Min Lin

The machine learning community is increasingly recognizing the importance of fostering trust and safety in modern generative AI (GenAI) models. We posit machine unlearning (MU) as a crucial foundation for developing safe, secure, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Tianqi Chen , Shujian Zhang , Mingyuan Zhou

Machine unlearning is gaining increasing attention as a way to remove adversarial data poisoning attacks from already trained models and to comply with privacy and AI regulations. The objective is to unlearn the effect of undesired data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Jose Miguel Lara Rangel , Stefan Schoepf , Jack Foster , David Krueger , Usman Anwar

Given data with label noise (i.e., incorrect data), deep neural networks would gradually memorize the label noise and impair model performance. To relieve this issue, curriculum learning is proposed to improve model performance and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Tingting Wu , Xiao Ding , Hao Zhang , Jinglong Gao , Li Du , Bing Qin , Ting Liu

We study the problem of unlearning datapoints from a learnt model. The learner first receives a dataset $S$ drawn i.i.d. from an unknown distribution, and outputs a model $\widehat{w}$ that performs well on unseen samples from the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Ayush Sekhari , Jayadev Acharya , Gautam Kamath , Ananda Theertha Suresh

Since the recent advent of regulations for data protection (e.g., the General Data Protection Regulation), there has been increasing demand in deleting information learned from sensitive data in pre-trained models without retraining from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Sungmin Cha , Sungjun Cho , Dasol Hwang , Honglak Lee , Taesup Moon , Moontae Lee

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training samples from a trained model without full retraining. While prior work has largely focused on privacy-motivated settings, we recast unlearning as a general-purpose tool…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 George R. Nahass , Zhu Wang , Homa Rashidisabet , Won Hwa Kim , Sasha Hubschman , Jeffrey C. Peterson , Chad A. Purnell , Pete Setabutr , Ann Q. Tran , Darvin Yi , Sathya N. Ravi

Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of specific training data from a model, a need driven by privacy regulations and robustness concerns. Existing approaches typically modify model parameters, but such updates can be unstable,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Antonio Almudévar , Alfonso Ortega

Machine unlearning is an emerging field that selectively removes specific data samples from a trained model. This capability is crucial for addressing privacy concerns, complying with data protection regulations, and correcting errors or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Zitong Li , Qingqing Ye , Haibo Hu

Machine unlearning, which enables a model to forget specific data, is crucial for ensuring data privacy and model reliability. However, its effectiveness can be severely undermined in real-world scenarios where models learn unintended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 JuneHyoung Kwon , MiHyeon Kim , Eunju Lee , Yoonji Lee , Seunghoon Lee , YoungBin Kim

Machine unlearning aims to enable models to forget specific data instances when receiving deletion requests. Current research centres on efficient unlearning to erase the influence of data from the model and neglects the subsequent impacts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Xin Yu , Wanlei Zhou

Machine unlearning -- efficiently removing the effect of a small "forget set" of training data on a pre-trained machine learning model -- has recently attracted significant research interest. Despite this interest, however, recent work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Kristian Georgiev , Roy Rinberg , Sung Min Park , Shivam Garg , Andrew Ilyas , Aleksander Madry , Seth Neel
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