What makes unlearning hard and what to do about it

K Zhao, M Kurmanji, GO Bărbulescu… - Advances in …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Machine unlearning is the problem of removing the effect of a subset of training
data (the``forget set'') from a trained model without damaging the model's utility eg to comply …

Alternate preference optimization for unlearning factual knowledge in large language models

A Mekala, V Dorna, S Dubey, A Lalwani… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine unlearning aims to efficiently eliminate the influence of specific training data,
known as the forget set, from the model. However, existing unlearning methods for Large …

QuickDrop: Efficient federated unlearning via synthetic data generation

A Dhasade, Y Ding, S Guo, AM Kermarrec… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Federated Unlearning (FU) aims to delete specific training data from an ML model trained
using Federated Learning (FL). However, existing FU methods suffer from inefficiencies due …

Simplicity Prevails: Rethinking Negative Preference Optimization for LLM Unlearning

C Fan, J Liu, L Lin, J Jia, R Zhang, S Mei… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work, we address the problem of large language model (LLM) unlearning, aiming to
remove unwanted data influences and associated model capabilities (eg, copyrighted data …

Scalability of memorization-based machine unlearning

K Zhao, P Triantafillou - arxiv preprint arxiv:2410.16516, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine unlearning (MUL) focuses on removing the influence of specific subsets of data
(such as noisy, poisoned, or privacy-sensitive data) from pretrained models. MUL methods …

Improved Localized Machine Unlearning Through the Lens of Memorization

R Torkzadehmahani, R Nasirigerdeh, G Kaissis… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine unlearning refers to removing the influence of a specified subset of training data
from a machine learning model, efficiently, after it has already been trained. This is important …

Unlearning in-vs. out-of-distribution data in LLMs under gradient-based method

T Baluta, P Lamblin, D Tarlow, F Pedregosa… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Machine unlearning aims to solve the problem of removing the influence of selected training
examples from a learned model. Despite the increasing attention to this problem, it remains …

[PDF][PDF] Machine unlearning in supply chains

S Schoepf, J Foster, A Brintrup - researchgate.net
Supply chains are dynamic systems with constantly changing data, necessitating adaptive
machine learning models. While prior research emphasizes integrating new data to …