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Machine unlearning is an emerging paradigm to remove the influence of specific training data (i.e., the forget set) from a model while preserving its knowledge of the rest of the data (i.e., the retain set). Previous approaches assume the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Thomas De Min , Subhankar Roy , Stéphane Lathuilière , Elisa Ricci , Massimiliano Mancini

Machine unlearning refers to the process of mitigating the influence of specific training data on machine learning models based on removal requests from data owners. However, one important area that has been largely overlooked in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Dayong Ye , Tianqing Zhu , Congcong Zhu , Derui Wang , Kun Gao , Zewei Shi , Sheng Shen , Wanlei Zhou , Minhui Xue

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

Despite legal mandates for the right to be forgotten, AI operators routinely fail to comply with data deletion requests. While machine unlearning (MU) provides a technical solution to remove personal data's influence from trained models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Qinqi Lin , Ningning Ding , Lingjie Duan , Jianwei Huang

Machine unlearning aims to remove points from the training dataset of a machine learning model after training: e.g., when a user requests their data to be deleted. While many unlearning methods have been proposed, none of them enable users…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Thorsten Eisenhofer , Doreen Riepel , Varun Chandrasekaran , Esha Ghosh , Olga Ohrimenko , Nicolas Papernot

Machine unlearning is a critical area of research aimed at safeguarding data privacy by enabling the removal of sensitive information from machine learning models. One unique challenge in this field is catastrophic unlearning, where erasing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhuoyi Peng , Yixuan Tang , Yi Yang

Machine Unlearning has emerged as a critical area in artificial intelligence, addressing the need to selectively remove learned data from machine learning models in response to data privacy regulations. This paper provides a comprehensive…

With the rapid advancement of AI applications, the growing needs for data privacy and model robustness have highlighted the importance of machine unlearning, especially in thriving graph-based scenarios. However, most existing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xunkai Li , Yulin Zhao , Zhengyu Wu , Wentao Zhang , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across many domains, their training on large-scale multimodal datasets raises serious privacy concerns, making effective machine unlearning increasingly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Yuhang Wang , Wenjie Mei , Junkai Zhang , Guangyu He , Zhenxing Niu , Haichang Gao

During pretraining, LLMs inadvertently memorize sensitive or copyrighted data, posing significant compliance challenges under legal frameworks like the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Fulfilling these mandates demands techniques that can remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Efstratios Zaradoukas , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

Language models trained on web-scale corpora risk memorizing and exposing sensitive information, prompting the need for effective machine unlearning. Prior methods mainly focus on input queries to suppress sensitive outputs, yet this often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Junbeom Kim , Kyuyoung Kim , Jihoon Tack , Dongha Lim , Jinwoo Shin

Machine unlearning (MU) is a promising cost-effective method to cleanse undesired information (generated concepts, biases, or patterns) from foundational diffusion models. While MU is orders of magnitude less costly than retraining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Eric Yeats , Darryl Hannan , Henry Kvinge , Timothy Doster , Scott Mahan

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims to remove the influence of specific data from a trained model while preserving its performance on the remaining data. Although a few works suggest connections between memorisation and augmentation, the role of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Andreza M. C. Falcao , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Large Language Models (LLMs) often memorize sensitive or harmful information, necessitating effective machine unlearning techniques. While existing parameter-efficient unlearning methods have shown promise, they still struggle with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Zeguan Xiao , Lang Mo , Yun Chen , Lei Yang , Jiehui Zhao , Lili Yang , Guanhua Chen

With evolving data regulations, machine unlearning (MU) has become an important tool for fostering trust and safety in today's AI models. However, existing MU methods focusing on data and/or weight perspectives often suffer limitations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Yihua Zhang , Eric Wong , Dennis Wei , Sijia Liu

Modern data-driven recommendation systems risk memorizing sensitive user behavioral patterns, raising privacy concerns. Existing recommendation unlearning methods, while capable of removing target data influence, suffer from inefficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Junpeng Zhao , Lin Li , Ming Li , Amran Bhuiyan , Jimmy Huang

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

Large language models (LLMs) may memorize sensitive or copyrighted content, raising significant privacy and legal concerns. While machine unlearning has emerged as a potential remedy, prevailing paradigms rely on user-provided forget sets,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Wenxuan Li , Zhenfei Zhang , Mi Zhang , Geng Hong , Mi Wen , Xiaoyu You , Min Yang

Recommender Systems have become crucial in the modern world, commonly guiding users towards relevant content or products, and having a large influence over the decisions of users and citizens. However, ensuring transparency and user trust…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Jorge Paz-Ruza , Amparo Alonso-Betanzos , Berta Guijarro-Berdiñas , Brais Cancela , Carlos Eiras-Franco

Machine learning models play a vital role in making predictions and deriving insights from data and are being increasingly used for causal inference. To preserve user privacy, it is important to enable the model to forget some of its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Vikas Ramachandra , Mohit Sethi