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It often happens that some sensitive personal information, such as credit card numbers or passwords, are mistakenly incorporated in the training of machine learning models and need to be removed afterwards. The removal of such information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Saber Malekmohammadi , Hong kyu Lee , Li Xiong

The growing demand for data privacy in Machine Learning (ML) applications has seen Machine Unlearning (MU) emerge as a critical area of research. As the `right to be forgotten' becomes regulated globally, it is increasingly important to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sadia Qureshi , Thanveer Shaik , Xiaohui Tao , Haoran Xie , Lin Li , Jianming Yong , Xiaohua Jia

Research in machine unlearning (MU) has gained strong momentum: MU is now widely regarded as a critical capability for building safe and fair AI. In parallel, research into transformer architectures for computer vision tasks has been highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Kairan Zhao , Iurie Luca , Peter Triantafillou

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in training data is pivotal for sustaining robustness in neural networks, especially when removing specific biases or outdated information, a process known as machine unlearning.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

Methods for knowledge editing and unlearning in large language models seek to edit or remove undesirable knowledge or capabilities without compromising general language modeling performance. This work investigates how mechanistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Phillip Guo , Aaquib Syed , Abhay Sheshadri , Aidan Ewart , Gintare Karolina Dziugaite

Recent legislation has led to interest in machine unlearning, i.e., removing specific training samples from a predictive model as if they never existed in the training dataset. Unlearning may also be required due to corrupted/adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Ronak Mehta , Sourav Pal , Vikas Singh , Sathya N. Ravi

Machine unlearning aims to erase data from a model as if the latter never saw them during training. While existing approaches unlearn information from complete or partial access to the training data, this access can be limited over time due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Thomas De Min , Massimiliano Mancini , Stéphane Lathuilière , Subhankar Roy , Elisa Ricci

Machine Unlearning (MU) has recently gained considerable attention due to its potential to achieve Safe AI by removing the influence of specific data from trained Machine Learning (ML) models. This process, known as knowledge removal,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Ziyao Liu , Huanyi Ye , Chen Chen , Yongsen Zheng , Kwok-Yan Lam

Machine unlearning is motivated by desire for data autonomy: a person can request to have their data's influence removed from deployed models, and those models should be updated as if they were retrained without the person's data. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Martin Bertran , Shuai Tang , Michael Kearns , Jamie Morgenstern , Aaron Roth , Zhiwei Steven Wu

Machine unlearning (MU) has emerged to enhance the privacy and trustworthiness of deep neural networks. Approximate MU is a practical method for large-scale models. Our investigation into approximate MU starts with identifying the steepest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Zhehao Huang , Xinwen Cheng , JingHao Zheng , Haoran Wang , Zhengbao He , Tao Li , 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

Machine learning systems increasingly face requirements to remove entire domains of information--such as toxic language or biases--rather than individual user data. This task presents a dilemma: full removal of the unwanted domain data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Youssef Allouah , Rachid Guerraoui , Sanmi Koyejo

Most machine learning techniques are based upon statistical learning theory, often simplified for the sake of computing speed. This paper is focused on the uncertainty aspect of mathematical modeling in machine learning. Regression analysis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Valentin Arkov

Large language models (LLMs) may memorize sensitive or copyrighted content, raising privacy and legal concerns. Due to the high cost of retraining from scratch, researchers attempt to employ machine unlearning to remove specific content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xiaojian Yuan , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Kejiang Chen , Weiming Zhang , Min Lin

Transformer has become fundamental to a vast series of pre-trained large models that have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications. Machine unlearning, which focuses on efficiently removing specific data influences to comply…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Wenjie Bao , Jian Lou , Yuke Hu , Xiaochen Li , Zhihao Liu , Jiaqi Liu , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Machine unlearning has garnered significant attention due to its ability to selectively erase knowledge obtained from specific training data samples in an already trained machine learning model. This capability enables data holders to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Vinay Chakravarthi Gogineni , Esmaeil S. Nadimi

This paper concerns itself with the task of taking a large trained neural network and 'compressing' it to be smaller by deleting parameters or entire neurons, with minimal decreases in the resulting model accuracy. We compare various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Rich Harang , Hillary Sanders

Machine unlearning focuses on the computationally efficient removal of specific training data from trained models, ensuring that the influence of forgotten data is effectively eliminated without the need for full retraining. Despite…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-13 Haolin Zou , Arnab Auddy , Yongchan Kwon , Kamiar Rahnama Rad , Arian Maleki

With the surge and widespread application of image generation models, data privacy and content safety have become major concerns and attracted great attention from users, service providers, and policymakers. Machine unlearning (MU) is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Renyang Liu , Wenjie Feng , Tianwei Zhang , Wei Zhou , Xueqi Cheng , See-Kiong Ng

With the extensive use of machine learning technologies, data providers encounter increasing privacy risks. Recent legislation, such as GDPR, obligates organizations to remove requested data and its influence from a trained model. Machine…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Hengzhu Liu , Tianqing Zhu , Lefeng Zhang , Ping Xiong