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Large language model unlearning has become a critical challenge in ensuring safety and controlled model behavior by removing undesired data-model influences from the pretrained model while preserving general utility. Significant recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Soumyadeep Pal , Changsheng Wang , James Diffenderfer , Bhavya Kailkhura , Sijia Liu

Machine unlearning can be useful for removing harmful capabilities and memorized text from large language models (LLMs), but there are not yet standardized methods for rigorously evaluating it. In this paper, we first survey techniques and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Aengus Lynch , Phillip Guo , Aidan Ewart , Stephen Casper , Dylan Hadfield-Menell

In contemporary times, machine learning (ML) has sparked a remarkable revolution across numerous domains, surpassing even the loftiest of human expectations. However, despite the astounding progress made by ML, the need to regulate its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Seifeddine Achour

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 retrieval-augmented generation prevails in large language models, embedding models are becoming increasingly crucial. Despite the growing number of general embedding models, prior work often overlooks the critical role of training data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xinshuo Hu , Zifei Shan , Xinping Zhao , Zetian Sun , Zhenyu Liu , Dongfang Li , Shaolin Ye , Xinyuan Wei , Qian Chen , Baotian Hu , Haofen Wang , Jun Yu , Min Zhang

Resistive memory (RM) based neuromorphic systems can emulate synaptic plasticity and thus support continual learning, but they generally lack biologically inspired mechanisms for active forgetting, which are critical for meeting modern data…

Machine Unlearning (MU) is critical for removing private or hazardous information from deep learning models. While MU has advanced significantly in unimodal (text or vision) settings, multimodal unlearning (MMU) remains underexplored due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Alexey Dontsov , Dmitrii Korzh , Alexey Zhavoronkin , Boris Mikheev , Denis Bobkov , Aibek Alanov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Ivan Oseledets , Elena Tutubalina

Machine unlearning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) is required for compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), yet current evaluation practices are inconsistent. We present the first systematic study of metric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Abdullah Ahmad Khan , Hamid Laga , Ferdous Sohel

Deep learning algorithms can fare poorly when the training dataset suffers from heavy class-imbalance but the testing criterion requires good generalization on less frequent classes. We design two novel methods to improve performance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kaidi Cao , Colin Wei , Adrien Gaidon , Nikos Arechiga , Tengyu Ma

Efficient benchmarking techniques aim to lower the computational cost of evaluating LLMs by predicting full benchmark scores using only a subset of a benchmark's questions. By reframing this problem as an instance of multiple regression…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-26 Sam Bowyer , Acyr Locatelli , Kris Cao

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific data influences from trained models, a capability essential for adhering to copyright laws and ensuring AI safety. Current unlearning metrics typically measure success by monitoring the model's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Hengrui Jia , Taoran Li , Jonas Guan , Varun Chandrasekaran

The LLM unlearning technique has recently been introduced to comply with data regulations and address the safety and ethical concerns of LLMs by removing the undesired data-model influence. However, state-of-the-art unlearning methods face…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Chongyu Fan , Jinghan Jia , Yihua Zhang , Anil Ramakrishna , Mingyi Hong , Sijia Liu

Machine unlearning (MU) aims to remove the influence of particular data points from the learnable parameters of a trained machine learning model. This is a crucial capability in light of data privacy requirements, trustworthiness, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Xavier F. Cadet , Anastasia Borovykh , Mohammad Malekzadeh , Sara Ahmadi-Abhari , Hamed Haddadi

Large Language Model (LLM) inference systems present significant challenges in statistical performance characterization due to dynamic workload variations, diverse hardware architectures, and complex interactions between model size, batch…

Performance · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Kaustabha Ray , Nelson Mimura Gonzalez , Bruno Wassermann , Rachel Tzoref-Brill , Dean H. Lorenz

Extreme learning machine (ELM) is a new single hidden layer feedback neural network. The weights of the input layer and the biases of neurons in hidden layer are randomly generated, the weights of the output layer can be analytically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Lin Feng , Shuliang Xu , Feilong Wang , Shenglan Liu

Machine Learning models face increased concerns regarding the storage of personal user data and adverse impacts of corrupted data like backdoors or systematic bias. Machine Unlearning can address these by allowing post-hoc deletion of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Shashwat Goel , Ameya Prabhu , Amartya Sanyal , Ser-Nam Lim , Philip Torr , Ponnurangam Kumaraguru

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

Comparing different AutoML frameworks is notoriously challenging and often done incorrectly. We introduce an open and extensible benchmark that follows best practices and avoids common mistakes when comparing AutoML frameworks. We conduct a…

Machine unlearning algorithms aim to remove the influence of specific training samples, ideally recovering the model that would have resulted from training on the remaining data alone. We study unlearning in the overparameterized setting,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jacob L. Block , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

Machine unlearning refers to removing the influence of a specified subset of training data from a machine learning model, efficiently, after it has already been trained. This is important for key applications, including making the model…