arXiv:2504. 06407v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine Unlearning aims to remove undesired information from trained models without full retraining from scratch.
By Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri
Machine Unlearning aims to remove undesired information from trained models without full retraining from scratch. Despite recent progress, the loss landscape and optimization geometry of unlearning are poorly understood.
arXiv:2608. 16700v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Various machine unlearning techniques have been developed in response to privacy legislation requirements, enabling individuals to exercise their legal right to have their data $D_f$ removed from a machine learning model.
By Hang Zhang, Kaifeng Zhang, Yixiao Ma, Weijie Xu, Ye Zhu, Kai Ming Ting
The paper investigates continual machine unlearning, where models must forget data over time. It identifies a fundamental issue called plasticity collapse, where successive unlearning requests cause geometric constraints that saturate parameter space, leading to two failure modes: forward failure (reduced forgetting quality) and backward failure (re‑memorization). Experiments across architectures and datasets confirm that plasticity collapse is a pervasive problem in continual unlearning.
By Yingdan Shi, Xiang Xu, Kaize Ding, Alfred O. Hero, Ren Wang
Approximate machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of a forget set from a trained model without full retraining. Existing gradient-based methods require data-dependent hyperparameter search,...
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