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Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of particular data or class from trained models to meet privacy, legal, or ethical requirements. Existing unlearning methods tend to forget shallowly: phenomenon of an unlearned model pretend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Jaeheun Jung , Bosung Jung , Suhyun Bae , Donghun Lee

The imperative to eliminate undesirable data memorization underscores the significance of machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs). Recent research has introduced a series of promising unlearning methods, notably boosting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Puning Yang , Jianing Zhu , Tongliang Liu , Masashi Sugiyama

This paper introduces CURLoRA, a novel approach to fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) that leverages CUR matrix decomposition in the context of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA). Our method addresses two critical challenges in LLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Muhammad Fawi

Machine unlearning aims to selectively remove targeted knowledge from Large Language Models (LLMs), ensuring they forget specified content while retaining essential information. Existing unlearning metrics assess whether a model correctly…

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Machine unlearning is rapidly becoming a practical requirement, driven by privacy regulations, data errors, and the need to remove harmful or corrupted training samples. Despite this, most existing methods tackle the problem purely from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sonia Laguna , Jorge da Silva Goncalves , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Irene Cannistraci , Julia E. Vogt

We formalize the problem of machine unlearning as design of efficient unlearning algorithms corresponding to learning algorithms which perform a selection of adaptive queries from structured query classes. We give efficient unlearning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Enayat Ullah , Raman Arora

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims at removing the influence of specific data points from a trained model, striving to achieve this at a fraction of the cost of full model retraining. In this paper, we analyze the efficiency of unlearning methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-24 Martin Van Waerebeke , Marco Lorenzi , Giovanni Neglia , Kevin Scaman

By adopting a more flexible definition of unlearning and adjusting the model distribution to simulate training without the targeted data, approximate machine unlearning provides a less resource-demanding alternative to the more laborious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Cheng-Long Wang , Qi Li , Zihang Xiang , Yinzhi Cao , Di Wang

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

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

Large language model (LLM)-based agents have recently gained considerable attention due to the powerful reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Existing research predominantly focuses on enhancing the task performance of these agents in diverse…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Dayong Ye , Tainqing Zhu , Congcong Zhu , Feng He , Qi He , Shang Wang , Bo Liu , Wanlei Zhou

We study federated unlearning, a novel problem to eliminate the impact of specific clients or data points on the global model learned via federated learning (FL). This problem is driven by the right to be forgotten and the privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Youming Tao , Cheng-Long Wang , Miao Pan , Dongxiao Yu , Xiuzhen Cheng , Di Wang

We present a new application and covering number bound for the framework of "Machine Learning with Operational Costs (MLOC)," which is an exploratory form of decision theory. The MLOC framework incorporates knowledge about how a predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-14 Theja Tulabandhula , Cynthia Rudin

Machine unlearning aims to efficiently eliminate the memory about deleted data from trained models and address the right to be forgotten. Despite the success of existing unlearning algorithms, unlearning in sparse models has not yet been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Yang Xiao , Gen Li , Jie Ji , Ruimeng Ye , Xiaolong Ma , Bo Hui

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed the way computers understand and process human language, but using them effectively across different organizations remains still difficult. When organizations work together to improve LLMs, they…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Xuhan Zuo , Minghao Wang , Tianqing Zhu , Shui Yu , Wanlei Zhou

The proliferation of connected devices and privacy-sensitive applications has accelerated the adoption of Federated Learning (FL), a decentralized paradigm that enables collaborative model training without sharing raw data. While FL…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Jer Shyuan Ng , Wathsara Daluwatta , Shehan Edirimannage , Charitha Elvitigala , Asitha Kottahachchi Kankanamge Don , Ibrahim Khalil , Heng Zhang , Dusit Niyato

Machine Learning (ML) models have been shown to potentially leak sensitive information, thus raising privacy concerns in ML-driven applications. This inspired recent research on removing the influence of specific data samples from a trained…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Youyang Qu , Xin Yuan , Ming Ding , Wei Ni , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Smith

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

Machine unlearning offers effective solutions for revoking the influence of specific training data on pre-trained model parameters. While existing approaches address unlearning for classification and generative models, they overlook an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yihan Wang , Yiwei Lu , Guojun Zhang , Franziska Boenisch , Adam Dziedzic , Yaoliang Yu , Xiao-Shan Gao

Machine unlearning empowers individuals with the `right to be forgotten' by removing their private or sensitive information encoded in machine learning models. However, it remains uncertain whether MU can be effectively applied to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jiaqi Li , Qianshan Wei , Chuanyi Zhang , Guilin Qi , Miaozeng Du , Yongrui Chen , Sheng Bi , Fan Liu