arXiv:2507. 04771v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Privacy protection laws, such as the GDPR, grant individuals the right to request the forgetting of their personal data not only from databases but also from machine learning (ML) models trained on them.
By Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Najeeb Jebreel, David S\'anchez
arXiv:2510. 10982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent AI regulations increasingly emphasize the need for mechanisms that preserve the utility of data for AI innovation while preventing misuse, particularly by enforcing purpose limitation in downstream AI applications.
By Zihan Wang, Zhiyong Ma, Zhongkui Ma, Shuofeng Liu, Akide Liu, Derui Wang, Minhui Xue, Guangdong Bai
arXiv:2507. 04219v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current unlearning methods for LLMs optimize on the private information they seek to remove by incorporating it into their fine-tuning data.
By Yan Scholten, Sophie Xhonneux, Leo Schwinn, Stephan G\"unnemann
arXiv:2606. 16110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning has been extensively studied in response to growing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements.
By Dayong Ye, Tianqing Zhu, Ruiding Huang, Xinbo Fu, Jiayang Li, Bo Liu, Huan Huo, Wanlei Zhou
arXiv:2607. 02513v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLMs memorize sensitive training data, including personally identifiable information (PII), creating a pressing need for reliable post hoc removal methods.
By Matteo Boglioni, Thibault Rousset, Siva Reddy, Marius Mosbach, Verna Dankers
Machine unlearning has been extensively studied in response to growing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements. However, auditing whether unlearning algorithms have truly erased the influence of specific data remains an open challenge.
arXiv:2505. 12239v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Continual Learning (CL), using a Pre-Trained Model (PTM) as the feature extractor has become a popular practice.
By Yajiang Huang, Jianheng Tang, Kejia Fan, Huiping Zhuang, Anfeng Liu, Tian Wang, Yunhuai Liu, Mianxiong Dong, Houbing Herbert Song
arXiv:2504. 14798v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine Unlearning (MUL) has emerged as a key mechanism for privacy protection and content regulation, yet current techniques often fail to guarantee the complete removal of sensitive information.
By Hao Xuan, Xingyu Li
Machine unlearning, which aims to remove the influence of specific training data from a trained model, is a key requirement for privacy, accountability, and adaptive deployment. We argue that many unlearning methods are vulnerable to a simple clustering attack, which can recover class structure in an unsupervised manner, limiting their suitability for continual deployment where removal requests must be handled reliably on demand.
arXiv:2412. 09119v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning, the process of selectively removing data from trained models, is increasingly crucial for addressing privacy concerns and knowledge gaps post-deployment.
By Youssef Allouah, Joshua Kazdan, Rachid Guerraoui, Sanmi Koyejo
arXiv:2605. 26903v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structured data is well handled by gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDT), which are usually trained on vertically partitioned features across mutually distrustful parties.
By Chenyu Huang, Fan Zhang, Minxin Du, Sherman S. M. Chow, Huangxun Chen, Huaming Rao, Danqing Huang, Bo Qian, Peng Chen
arXiv:2606. 17110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are increasingly trained on proprietary or sensitive data, from private healthcare and financial records to user conversations containing secrets.
By Md Abdullah Al Mamun, Ngoc Phu Doan, Pedram Zaree, Ihsen Alouani, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh