arXiv Machine Learning By Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar, Anastasia Koloskova, Sanmi Koyejo

Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms

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arXiv:2607. 05898v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating whether unlearning algorithms truly remove training data influence remains an open challenge.

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