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In recent years, Federated Unlearning (FU) has gained attention for addressing the removal of a client's influence from the global model in Federated Learning (FL) systems, thereby ensuring the ``right to be forgotten" (RTBF).…

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Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) enables collaborative model training without a central server, but it remains vulnerable to privacy leakage because shared model updates can expose sensitive information through inversion,…

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Federated Learning (FL), introduced in 2016, was designed to enhance data privacy in collaborative model training environments. Among the FL paradigm, horizontal FL, where clients share the same set of features but different data samples,…

The advent of Federated Learning (FL) highlights the practical necessity for the right to be forgotten for all clients, allowing them to request data deletion from the machine learning models service provider. This necessity has spurred a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Hanlin Gu , Win Kent Ong , Chee Seng Chan , Lixin Fan

Traditional machine learning relies on a centralized data pipeline, i.e., data are provided to a central server for model training. In many applications, however, data are inherently fragmented. Such a decentralized nature of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Ye Yuan , Jun Liu , Dou Jin , Zuogong Yue , Ruijuan Chen , Maolin Wang , Chuan Sun , Lei Xu , Feng Hua , Xin He , Xinlei Yi , Tao Yang , Hai-Tao Zhang , Shaochun Sui , Han Ding

Federated unlearning (FUL) enables removing the data influence from the model trained across distributed clients, upholding the right to be forgotten as mandated by privacy regulations. FUL facilitates a value exchange where clients gain…

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Decentralized Federated Learning (DFL) eliminates the need for a central aggregator, but it can expose communication patterns that reveal participant identities. This work presents UnlinkableDFL, a DFL framework that combines a peer-based…

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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a prominent distributed learning paradigm. Within the scope of privacy preservation, information privacy regulations such as GDPR entitle users to request the removal (or unlearning) of their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Ayush K. Varshney , Konstantinos Vandikas , Vicenç Torra

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for collaborative machine learning across decentralized data sources, preserving privacy by keeping data local. However, increasing legal and ethical demands, such as the "right to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Radmehr Karimian , Amirhossein Bagheri , Meghdad Kurmanji , Nicholas D. Lane , Gholamali Aminian

With privacy legislation empowering the users with the right to be forgotten, it has become essential to make a model amenable for forgetting some of its training data. However, existing unlearning methods in the machine learning context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Anisa Halimi , Swanand Kadhe , Ambrish Rawat , Nathalie Baracaldo

The demand for data privacy has led to the development of frameworks like Federated Graph Learning (FGL), which facilitate decentralized model training. However, a significant operational challenge in such systems is adhering to the right…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Yuming Ai , Xunkai Li , Jiaqi Chao , Bowen Fan , Zhengyu Wu , Yinlin Zhu , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

As the right to be forgotten becomes legislated worldwide, machine unlearning mechanisms have emerged to efficiently update models for data deletion and enhance user privacy protection. However, existing machine unlearning algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lisong He , Yi Yang , Xiangyu Chang

The right to be forgotten is a fundamental principle of privacy-preserving regulations and extends to Machine Learning (ML) paradigms such as Federated Learning (FL). While FL enhances privacy by enabling collaborative model training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Alessio Mora , Carlo Mazzocca , Rebecca Montanari , Paolo Bellavista

Machine unlearning (MU) seeks to remove the influence of specified data from a trained model in response to privacy requests or data poisoning. While certified unlearning has been analyzed in centralized and server-orchestrated federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Hithem Lamri , Michail Maniatakos

Federated learning is a distributed machine learning paradigm that allows multiple participants to train a shared model by exchanging model updates instead of their raw data. However, its performance is degraded compared to centralized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hyungbin Kim , Incheol Baek , Yon Dohn Chung

Privacy concerns associated with machine learning models have driven research into machine unlearning, which aims to erase the memory of specific target training data from already trained models. This issue also arises in federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Yuyuan Li , Jiaming Zhang , Yixiu Liu , Chaochao Chen

With the growing adoption of data privacy regulations, the ability to erase private or copyrighted information from trained models has become a crucial requirement. Traditional unlearning methods often assume access to the complete training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Umit Yigit Basaran , Sk Miraj Ahmed , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Basak Guler

Federated learning (FL) has been gaining attention for its ability to share knowledge while maintaining user data, protecting privacy, increasing learning efficiency, and reducing communication overhead. Decentralized FL (DFL) is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Liangqi Yuan , Ziran Wang , Lichao Sun , Philip S. Yu , Christopher G. Brinton

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a promising distributed machine learning (ML) paradigm. Practical needs of the "right to be forgotten" and countering data poisoning attacks call for efficient techniques that can remove, or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Gaoyang Liu , Xiaoqiang Ma , Yang Yang , Chen Wang , Jiangchuan Liu

Federated learning (FL) has recently emerged as a compelling machine learning paradigm, prioritizing the protection of privacy for training data. The increasing demand to address issues such as ``the right to be forgotten'' and combat data…