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Machine unlearning is a crucial tool for enabling a classification model to forget specific data that are used in the training time. Recently, various studies have presented machine unlearning algorithms and evaluated their methods on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Dasol Choi , Dongbin Na

The practical needs of the ``right to be forgotten'' and poisoned data removal call for efficient \textit{machine unlearning} techniques, which enable machine learning models to unlearn, or to forget a fraction of training data and its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Min Chen , Weizhuo Gao , Gaoyang Liu , Kai Peng , Chen Wang

In Machine Learning, the emergence of \textit{the right to be forgotten} gave birth to a paradigm named \textit{machine unlearning}, which enables data holders to proactively erase their data from a trained model. Existing machine…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yi Liu , Lei Xu , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang , Bo Li

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

Machine unlearning has been used to remove unwanted knowledge acquired by large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we examine machine unlearning from an optimization perspective, framing it as a regularized multi-task optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Zhiqi Bu , Xiaomeng Jin , Bhanukiran Vinzamuri , Anil Ramakrishna , Kai-Wei Chang , Volkan Cevher , Mingyi Hong

Machine unlearning, which enables a model to forget specific data, is crucial for ensuring data privacy and model reliability. However, its effectiveness can be severely undermined in real-world scenarios where models learn unintended…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 JuneHyoung Kwon , MiHyeon Kim , Eunju Lee , Yoonji Lee , Seunghoon Lee , YoungBin Kim

In recent years, model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) has become a popular research area. However, the stochastic optimization of MAML is still underdeveloped. Existing MAML algorithms rely on the ``episode'' idea by sampling a few tasks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-26 Bokun Wang , Zhuoning Yuan , Yiming Ying , Tianbao Yang

We address the problem of machine unlearning, where the goal is to remove the influence of specific training data from a model upon request, motivated by privacy concerns and regulatory requirements such as the "right to be forgotten."…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Anastasia Koloskova , Youssef Allouah , Animesh Jha , Rachid Guerraoui , Sanmi Koyejo

A central problem in machine learning is often formulated as follows: Given a dataset $\{(x_j, y_j)\}_{j=1}^M$, which is a sample drawn from an unknown probability distribution, the goal is to construct a functional model $f$ such that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Hrushikesh N. Mhaskar , Efstratios Tsoukanis , Ameya D. Jagtap

In recent years, machine learning neural network has penetrated deeply into people's life. As the price of convenience, people's private information also has the risk of disclosure. The "right to be forgotten" was introduced in a timely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Kongyang Chen , Yiwen Wang , Yao Huang

Deep neural networks have proven to be highly effective when large amounts of data with clean labels are available. However, their performance degrades when training data contains noisy labels, leading to poor generalization on the test…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Fahimeh Fooladgar , Minh Nguyen Nhat To , Parvin Mousavi , Purang Abolmaesumi

An ultimate objective in continual learning is to preserve knowledge learned in preceding tasks while learning new tasks. To mitigate forgetting prior knowledge, we propose a novel knowledge distillation technique that takes into the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Kaushik Roy , Christian Simon , Peyman Moghadam , Mehrtash Harandi

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data from a learned model without full retraining. While recent work has begun to explore unlearning in quantum machine learning, existing approaches largely rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Nausherwan Malik , Zubair Khalid , Muhammad Faryad

Machine unlearning (MU) aims to eliminate information that has been learned from specific training data, namely forgetting data, from a pre-trained model. Currently, the mainstream of existing MU methods involves modifying the forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Zhengbao He , Tao Li , Xinwen Cheng , Zhehao Huang , Xiaolin Huang

Approximate unlearning has gained popularity as an approach to efficiently update an LLM so that it behaves (roughly) as if it was not trained on a subset of data to begin with. However, existing methods are brittle in practice and can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Kevin Kuo , Amrith Setlur , Kartik Srinivas , Aditi Raghunathan , Virginia Smith

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

Machine unlearning (MU) aims to efficiently remove sensitive or harmful memory from a pre-trained model. The key challenge is to balance the potential tradeoff between unlearning efficacy and utility preservation, which involves forgetting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Shiji Zhou , Tianbai Yu , Zhi Zhang , Heng Chang , Xiao Zhou , Dong Wu , Han Zhao

The rapid progress of AI, combined with its unprecedented public adoption and the propensity of large neural networks to memorize training data, has given rise to significant data privacy concerns. To address these concerns, machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ali Abbasi , Chayne Thrash , Elaheh Akbari , Daniel Zhang , Soheil Kolouri

Machine Unlearning (MU) aims at removing the influence of specific data from a pretrained model while preserving performance on the remaining data. In this work, a novel perspective for MU is presented upon low-dimensional feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kun Fang , Qinghua Tao , Junxu Liu , Yaxin Xiao , Qingqing Ye , Jian Sun , Haibo Hu

The right to be forgotten (RTBF) is motivated by the desire of people not to be perpetually disadvantaged by their past deeds. For this, data deletion needs to be deep and permanent, and should be removed from machine learning models.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Dawen Zhang , Shidong Pan , Thong Hoang , Zhenchang Xing , Mark Staples , Xiwei Xu , Lina Yao , Qinghua Lu , Liming Zhu