We study machine unlearning: the removal of memorized training data from a trained model. Specifically, we investigate the algorithmic complexity of certified unlearning from an optimization perspective.
arXiv:2601. 10237v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Differentially Private Stochastic Gradient Descent (DP-SGD) is the dominant paradigm for private training, but its fundamental limitations under worst-case adversarial privacy definitions remain poorly understood.
By Murat Bilgehan Ertan, Marten van Dijk
arXiv:2606. 32005v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stochastic Gradient Descent ($\textsf{SGD}$) is one of the most classical optimization algorithms with favorable theoretical guarantees, yet the practical implementation of $\textsf{SGD}$ differs subtly from its well-known form and is often referred to as Shuffling Stochastic Gradient Descent ($\textsf{Shuffling SGD}$).
By Zijian Liu
arXiv:2607. 20192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study machine unlearning: the removal of memorized training data from a trained model.
By Nikita Doikov, Anastasia Koloskova
arXiv:2603. 20388v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We derive the asymptotic risk function of regularized empirical risk minimization (ERM) estimators tuned by $n$-fold cross-validation (CV).
By Karun Adusumilli, Maximilian Kasy, Ashia Wilson
arXiv:2606. 02119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific forget training data due to privacy, copyright or bias concerns while maintaining the model performance on the remaining retain data.
By Jiangwei Chen, Xinyuan Niu, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
arXiv:2607. 14731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local SGD, also known as Federated Averaging, is a widely used distributed optimization algorithm.
By Kumar Kshitij Patel, Rustem Islamov, Sebastian U Stich, Aurelien Lucchi, Eduard Gorbunov, Lingxiao Wang
arXiv:2607. 26577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive conformal inference (ACI) of Gibbs and Cand{\`e}s and its variants are the standard approach to online conformal prediction under distribution shift, but they suffer from three fundamental limitations.
By Rahul Vaze
arXiv:2607. 05898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating whether unlearning algorithms truly remove training data influence remains an open challenge.
By Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar, Anastasia Koloskova, Sanmi Koyejo
arXiv:2602. 02431v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: It is folklore that reusing training data more than once can improve the statistical efficiency of gradient-based learning.
By Filip Kova\v{c}evi\'c, Hong Chang Ji, Denny Wu, Mahdi Soltanolkotabi, Marco Mondelli
arXiv:2608. 06337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A monotone adversary observes an i.
By Anay Mehrotra
arXiv:2606. 19891v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study adversarial bandit optimization in which the loss functions may be non-convex and non-smooth.
By Zhuoyu Cheng, Kohei Hatano, Eiji Takimoto