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Understanding Machine Unlearning Through the Lens of Mode Connectivity

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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.

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arXiv AI
Sep 1

On the Plasticity Collapse in Continual Machine Unlearning

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