arXiv Machine Learning By Andrea D'Angelo, Francesco Gullo, Davide Mottin, Sayan Ranu, Giovanni Stilo

Lethe: Link Inference Attacks For Evaluation of Edge Unlearning Methods

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Lethe is a new benchmark for Edge Unlearning (EU) in Graph Neural Networks, addressing the lack of comprehensive evaluation tools for forgetting edges. It includes 15 EU methods tested on 8 datasets, focusing on large graphs and varying task difficulty. The benchmark replaces traditional accuracy metrics with empirical link inference attacks to better assess EU effectiveness.

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