Machine Unlearning
Table of Contents
ICCV
ECCV
COLT
UAI
AISTATS
EMNLP
WACV
INFOCOM
DAC
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
ALT
SIGMOD Conference
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
IEEE Trans. Big Data
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.
Proc. VLDB Endow.
Nat. Mac. Intell.
Pattern Recognit.
Knowl. Based Syst.
Neural Networks
Neurocomputing
NeurIPS
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Certified Machine Unlearning via Noisy Stochastic Gradient Descent. | NeurIPS | 2024 | Link |
| Langevin Unlearning: A New Perspective of Noisy Gradient Descent for Machine Unlearning. | NeurIPS | 2024 | Link |
| Reconstruction Attacks on Machine Unlearning: Simple Models are Vulnerable. | NeurIPS | 2024 | Link |
| Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models. | NeurIPS | 2024 | Link |
| Unified Gradient-Based Machine Unlearning with Remain Geometry Enhancement. | NeurIPS | 2024 | Link |
| UnlearnCanvas: Stylized Image Dataset for Enhanced Machine Unlearning Evaluation in Diffusion Models. | NeurIPS | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fast Model DeBias with Machine Unlearning. | NeurIPS | 2023 | Link |
| Hidden Poison: Machine Unlearning Enables Camouflaged Poisoning Attacks. | NeurIPS | 2023 | Link |
| Model Sparsity Can Simplify Machine Unlearning. | NeurIPS | 2023 | Link |
| Towards Unbounded Machine Unlearning. | NeurIPS | 2023 | Link |
2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt Certified Machine Unlearning with Randomized Gradient Smoothing and Quantization. | NeurIPS | 2022 | Link |
2021
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adaptive Machine Unlearning. | NeurIPS | 2021 | Link |
| Remember What You Want to Forget: Algorithms for Machine Unlearning. | NeurIPS | 2021 | Link |
ICML
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flexible, Efficient, and Stable Adversarial Attacks on Machine Unlearning. | ICML | 2025 | Link |
| Leveraging Per-Instance Privacy for Machine Unlearning. | ICML | 2025 | Link |
| NegMerge: Sign-Consensual Weight Merging for Machine Unlearning. | ICML | 2025 | Link |
| SEMU: Singular Value Decomposition for Efficient Machine Unlearning. | ICML | 2025 | Link |
| When to Forget? Complexity Trade-offs in Machine Unlearning. | ICML | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Verification of Machine Unlearning is Fragile. | ICML | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Fast Federated Machine Unlearning with Nonlinear Functional Theory. | ICML | 2023 | Link |
| Forget Unlearning: Towards True Data-Deletion in Machine Learning. | ICML | 2023 | Link |
| From Adaptive Query Release to Machine Unlearning. | ICML | 2023 | Link |
2021
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning for Random Forests. | ICML | 2021 | Link |
ICLR
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Closer Look at Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| Adversarial Machine Unlearning. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| DynFrs: An Efficient Framework for Machine Unlearning in Random Forest. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| MUSE: Machine Unlearning Six-Way Evaluation for Language Models. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| Machine Unlearning Fails to Remove Data Poisoning Attacks. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| Machine Unlearning via Simulated Oracle Matching. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| Score Forgetting Distillation: A Swift, Data-Free Method for Machine Unlearning in Diffusion Models. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| The Utility and Complexity of In- and Out-of-Distribution Machine Unlearning. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| Towards Scalable Exact Machine Unlearning Using Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
| Unlearn and Burn: Adversarial Machine Unlearning Requests Destroy Model Accuracy. | ICLR | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning for Image-to-Image Generative Models. | ICLR | 2024 | Link |
| SalUn: Empowering Machine Unlearning via Gradient-based Weight Saliency in Both Image Classification and Generation. | ICLR | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Machine Unlearning of Federated Clusters. | ICLR | 2023 | Link |
NDSS
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2024
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| A Duty to Forget, a Right to be Assured? Exposing Vulnerabilities in Machine Unlearning Services. | NDSS | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning of Features and Labels. | NDSS | 2023 | Link |
CVPR
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| LoTUS: Large-Scale Machine Unlearning with a Taste of Uncertainty. | CVPR | 2025 | Link |
| The Illusion of Unlearning: The Unstable Nature of Machine Unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models. | CVPR | 2025 | Link |
| Towards Source-Free Machine Unlearning. | CVPR | 2025 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| ERM-KTP: Knowledge-Level Machine Unlearning via Knowledge Transfer. | CVPR | 2023 | Link |
ICCV
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2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| MUter: Machine Unlearning on Adversarially Trained Models. | ICCV | 2023 | Link |
| SAFE: Machine Unlearning With Shard Graphs. | ICCV | 2023 | Link |
ECCV
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Challenging Forgets: Unveiling the Worst-Case Forget Sets in Machine Unlearning. | ECCV | 2024 | Link |
| Is Retain Set All You Need in Machine Unlearning? Restoring Performance of Unlearned Models with Out-of-Distribution Images. | ECCV | 2024 | Link |
| Learning to Unlearn for Robust Machine Unlearning. | ECCV | 2024 | Link |
| MultiDelete for Multimodal Machine Unlearning. | ECCV | 2024 | Link |
COLT
UAI
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| SALSA: A Secure, Adaptive and Label-Agnostic Scalable Algorithm for Machine Unlearning. | UAI | 2025 | Link |
IJCAI
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Contrastive Unlearning: A Contrastive Approach to Machine Unlearning. | IJCAI | 2025 | Link |
| How to Make Reproducible Research in Machine Unlearning with ERASURE. | IJCAI | 2025 | Link |
| Zero-Shot Machine Unlearning with Proxy Adversarial Data Generation. | IJCAI | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning via Null Space Calibration. | IJCAI | 2024 | Link |
| Machine Unlearning: Challenges in Data Quality and Access. | IJCAI | 2024 | Link |
| Unlearning during Learning: An Efficient Federated Machine Unlearning Method. | IJCAI | 2024 | Link |
2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| ARCANE: An Efficient Architecture for Exact Machine Unlearning. | IJCAI | 2022 | Link |
AAAI
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Distribution-Level Feature Distancing for Machine Unlearning: Towards a Better Trade-off Between Model Utility and Forgetting. | AAAI | 2025 | Link |
| Forget to Flourish: Leveraging Machine-Unlearning on Pretrained Language Models for Privacy Leakage. | AAAI | 2025 | Link |
| SAP: Corrective Machine Unlearning with Scaled Activation Projection for Label Noise Robustness. | AAAI | 2025 | Link |
| Selective Forgetting: Advancing Machine Unlearning Techniques and Evaluation in Language Models. | AAAI | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Backdoor Attacks via Machine Unlearning. | AAAI | 2024 | Link |
| Fast Machine Unlearning without Retraining through Selective Synaptic Dampening. | AAAI | 2024 | Link |
| Layer Attack Unlearning: Fast and Accurate Machine Unlearning via Layer Level Attack and Knowledge Distillation. | AAAI | 2024 | Link |
2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hard to Forget: Poisoning Attacks on Certified Machine Unlearning. | AAAI | 2022 | Link |
AISTATS
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Fair Machine Unlearning: Data Removal while Mitigating Disparities. | AISTATS | 2024 | Link |
KDD
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| From Expansion to Retraction: Long-tailed Machine Unlearning via Boundary Manipulation. | KDD | 2025 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Machine Unlearning in Gradient Boosting Decision Trees. | KDD | 2023 | Link |
CCS
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Prototype Surgery: Tailoring Neural Prototypes via Soft Labels for Efficient Machine Unlearning. | CCS | 2025 | Link |
| Rethinking Machine Unlearning in Image Generation Models. | CCS | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERASER: Machine Unlearning in MLaaS via an Inference Serving-Aware Approach. | CCS | 2024 | Link |
2021
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| When Machine Unlearning Jeopardizes Privacy. | CCS | 2021 | Link |
ACL
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decoupling Memories, Muting Neurons: Towards Practical Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models. | ACL | 2025 | Link |
| Disentangling Biased Knowledge from Reasoning in Large Language Models via Machine Unlearning. | ACL | 2025 | Link |
| MMUnlearner: Reformulating Multimodal Machine Unlearning in the Era of Multimodal Large Language Models. | ACL | 2025 | Link |
| SafeEraser: Enhancing Safety in Multimodal Large Language Models through Multimodal Machine Unlearning. | ACL | 2025 | Link |
| Unilogit: Robust Machine Unlearning for LLMs Using Uniform-Target Self-Distillation. | ACL | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deciphering the Impact of Pretraining Data on Large Language Models through Machine Unlearning. | ACL | 2024 | Link |
| Machine Unlearning of Pre-trained Large Language Models. | ACL | 2024 | Link |
| Towards Safer Large Language Models through Machine Unlearning. | ACL | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| KGA: A General Machine Unlearning Framework Based on Knowledge Gap Alignment. | ACL | 2023 | Link |
EMNLP
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can Machine Unlearning Reduce Social Bias in Language Models? | EMNLP | 2024 | Link |
| Rethinking Evaluation Methods for Machine Unlearning. | EMNLP | 2024 | Link |
WACV
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revisiting Machine Unlearning with Dimensional Alignment. | WACV | 2025 | Link |
INFOCOM
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2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Backdoor Defense with Machine Unlearning. | INFOCOM | 2022 | Link |
WWW
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| FUNU: Boosting Machine Unlearning Efficiency by Filtering Unnecessary Unlearning. | WWW | 2025 | Link |
| Fairness and Robustness in Machine Unlearning. | WWW | 2025 | Link |
| TAPE: Tailored Posterior Difference for Auditing of Machine Unlearning. | WWW | 2025 | Link |
| Towards Safe Machine Unlearning: A Paradigm that Mitigates Performance Degradation. | WWW | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Breaking the Trilemma of Privacy, Utility, and Efficiency via Controllable Machine Unlearning. | WWW | 2024 | Link |
DAC
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| ReVeil: Unconstrained Concealed Backdoor Attack on Deep Neural Networks using Machine Unlearning. | DAC | 2025 | Link |
SP
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Learn What You Want to Unlearn: Unlearning Inversion Attacks against Machine Unlearning. | SP | 2024 | Link |
2021
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning. | SP | 2021 | Link |
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
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2015
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towards Making Systems Forget with Machine Unlearning. | IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy | 2015 | Link |
USENIX Security Symposium
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Data Duplication: A Novel Multi-Purpose Attack Paradigm in Machine Unlearning. | USENIX Security Symposium | 2025 | Link |
| Rectifying Privacy and Efficacy Measurements in Machine Unlearning: A New Inference Attack Perspective. | USENIX Security Symposium | 2025 | Link |
2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| On the Necessity of Auditable Algorithmic Definitions for Machine Unlearning. | USENIX Security Symposium | 2022 | Link |
ACM Multimedia
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| GDR-GMA: Machine Unlearning via Direction-Rectified and Magnitude-Adjusted Gradients. | ACM Multimedia | 2024 | Link |
2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning for Image Retrieval: A Generative Scrubbing Approach. | ACM Multimedia | 2022 | Link |
ALT
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2021
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Descent-to-Delete: Gradient-Based Methods for Machine Unlearning. | ALT | 2021 | Link |
Proc. ACM Manag. Data
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases: An Experimental Analysis. | Proc. ACM Manag. Data | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| DeltaBoost: Gradient Boosting Decision Trees with Efficient Machine Unlearning. | Proc. ACM Manag. Data | 2023 | Link |
SIGMOD Conference
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2021
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| HedgeCut: Maintaining Randomised Trees for Low-Latency Machine Unlearning. | SIGMOD Conference | 2021 | Link |
CIKM
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| ERASURE: A Modular and Extensible Framework for Machine Unlearning. | CIKM | 2025 | Link |
| Enabling Group Fairness in Machine Unlearning via Distribution Correction. | CIKM | 2025 | Link |
| MU-OT: Effective and Unified Machine Unlearning with Optimal Transport for Feature Realignment. | CIKM | 2025 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Closed-form Machine Unlearning for Matrix Factorization. | CIKM | 2023 | Link |
Mach. Learn.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| MUSO: achieving exact machine unlearning in over-parameterized regimes. | Mach. Learn. | 2025 | Link |
2022
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine unlearning: linear filtration for logit-based classifiers. | Mach. Learn. | 2022 | Link |
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Towards Natural Machine Unlearning. | IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. | 2025 | Link |
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Exploring the Landscape of Machine Unlearning: A Comprehensive Survey and Taxonomy. | IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. | 2025 | Link |
| Machine Unlearning: Taxonomy, Metrics, Applications, Challenges, and Prospects. | IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. | 2025 | Link |
| Toward Efficient Target-Level Machine Unlearning Based on Essential Graph. | IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Fast Yet Effective Machine Unlearning. | IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst. | 2024 | Link |
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| FELEMN: Toward Efficient Feature-Level Machine Unlearning for Exact Privacy Protection. | IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 2025 | Link |
| Machine Unlearning Through Fine-Grained Model Parameters Perturbation. | IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| FRAMU: Attention-Based Machine Unlearning Using Federated Reinforcement Learning. | IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. | 2024 | Link |
IEEE Trans. Big Data
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Update Selective Parameters: Federated Machine Unlearning Based on Model Explanation. | IEEE Trans. Big Data | 2025 | Link |
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell.
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning: Solutions and Challenges. | IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell. | 2024 | Link |
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evaluation of Machine Unlearning Through Model Difference. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2025 | Link |
| Game-Theoretic Machine Unlearning: Mitigating Extra Privacy Leakage. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2025 | Link |
| SCU: An Efficient Machine Unlearning Scheme for Deep Learning Enabled Semantic Communications. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2025 | Link |
| TruVRF: Toward Triple-Granularity Verification on Machine Unlearning. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2025 | Link |
2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Machine Unlearning via Representation Forgetting With Parameter Self-Sharing. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2024 | Link |
| Verifying in the Dark: Verifiable Machine Unlearning by Using Invisible Backdoor Triggers. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2024 | Link |
2023
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| FedRecovery: Differentially Private Machine Unlearning for Federated Learning Frameworks. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2023 | Link |
| Zero-Shot Machine Unlearning. | IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 2023 | Link |
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Survey of Machine Unlearning. | ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. | 2025 | Link |
Proc. VLDB Endow.
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Snapcase - Regain Control over Your Predictions with Low-Latency Machine Unlearning. | Proc. VLDB Endow. | 2024 | Link |
Nat. Mac. Intell.
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rethinking machine unlearning for large language models. | Nat. Mac. Intell. | 2025 | Link |
Pattern Recognit.
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2026
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Preserving privacy without compromising accuracy: Machine unlearning for handwritten text recognition. | Pattern Recognit. | 2026 | Link |
Knowl. Based Syst.
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2024
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Defending against gradient inversion attacks in federated learning via statistical machine unlearning. | Knowl. Based Syst. | 2024 | Link |
Neural Networks
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2025
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| Fast yet versatile machine unlearning for deep neural networks. | Neural Networks | 2025 | Link |
Neurocomputing
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2026
| Title | Venue | Year | Link |
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| How secure is forgetting? Linking machine unlearning to machine learning attacks. | Neurocomputing | 2026 | Link |