Machine Unlearning

Table of Contents
NeurIPS
ICML
ICLR
NDSS
CVPR
ICCV
ECCV
COLT
UAI
IJCAI
AAAI
AISTATS
KDD
CCS
ACL
EMNLP
WACV
INFOCOM
WWW
DAC
SP
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy
USENIX Security Symposium
ACM Multimedia
ALT
Proc. ACM Manag. Data
SIGMOD Conference
CIKM
Mach. Learn.
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.
IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
IEEE Trans. Big Data
IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell.
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.
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

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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

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Prompt Certified Machine Unlearning with Randomized Gradient Smoothing and Quantization. NeurIPS 2022 Link

2021

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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

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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

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Verification of Machine Unlearning is Fragile. ICML 2024 Link

2023

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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

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Machine Unlearning for Random Forests. ICML 2021 Link

ICLR

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2025

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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

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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

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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

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Machine Unlearning of Features and Labels. NDSS 2023 Link

CVPR

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2025

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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

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ERM-KTP: Knowledge-Level Machine Unlearning via Knowledge Transfer. CVPR 2023 Link

ICCV

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2023

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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

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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

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2021

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Machine Unlearning via Algorithmic Stability. COLT 2021 Link

UAI

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2025

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SALSA: A Secure, Adaptive and Label-Agnostic Scalable Algorithm for Machine Unlearning. UAI 2025 Link

IJCAI

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2025

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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

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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

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ARCANE: An Efficient Architecture for Exact Machine Unlearning. IJCAI 2022 Link

AAAI

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2025

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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

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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

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Hard to Forget: Poisoning Attacks on Certified Machine Unlearning. AAAI 2022 Link

AISTATS

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2024

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Fair Machine Unlearning: Data Removal while Mitigating Disparities. AISTATS 2024 Link

KDD

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2025

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From Expansion to Retraction: Long-tailed Machine Unlearning via Boundary Manipulation. KDD 2025 Link

2023

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Machine Unlearning in Gradient Boosting Decision Trees. KDD 2023 Link

CCS

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2025

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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

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ERASER: Machine Unlearning in MLaaS via an Inference Serving-Aware Approach. CCS 2024 Link

2021

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When Machine Unlearning Jeopardizes Privacy. CCS 2021 Link

ACL

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2025

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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

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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

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KGA: A General Machine Unlearning Framework Based on Knowledge Gap Alignment. ACL 2023 Link

EMNLP

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2024

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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

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Revisiting Machine Unlearning with Dimensional Alignment. WACV 2025 Link

INFOCOM

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2022

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Backdoor Defense with Machine Unlearning. INFOCOM 2022 Link

WWW

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2025

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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

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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

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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

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Learn What You Want to Unlearn: Unlearning Inversion Attacks against Machine Unlearning. SP 2024 Link

2021

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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
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

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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

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GDR-GMA: Machine Unlearning via Direction-Rectified and Magnitude-Adjusted Gradients. ACM Multimedia 2024 Link

2022

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Machine Unlearning for Image Retrieval: A Generative Scrubbing Approach. ACM Multimedia 2022 Link

ALT

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2021

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Descent-to-Delete: Gradient-Based Methods for Machine Unlearning. ALT 2021 Link

Proc. ACM Manag. Data

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2024

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Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases: An Experimental Analysis. Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2024 Link

2023

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DeltaBoost: Gradient Boosting Decision Trees with Efficient Machine Unlearning. Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2023 Link

SIGMOD Conference

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2021

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HedgeCut: Maintaining Randomised Trees for Low-Latency Machine Unlearning. SIGMOD Conference 2021 Link

CIKM

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2025

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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

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Closed-form Machine Unlearning for Matrix Factorization. CIKM 2023 Link

Mach. Learn.

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2025

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MUSO: achieving exact machine unlearning in over-parameterized regimes. Mach. Learn. 2025 Link

2022

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Machine unlearning: linear filtration for logit-based classifiers. Mach. Learn. 2022 Link

IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.

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2025

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Towards Natural Machine Unlearning. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 2025 Link

IEEE Trans. Neural Networks Learn. Syst.

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2025

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Machine Unlearning: Solutions and Challenges. IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell. 2024 Link

IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur.

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2025

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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

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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

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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

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A Survey of Machine Unlearning. ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol. 2025 Link

Proc. VLDB Endow.

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2024

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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

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Preserving privacy without compromising accuracy: Machine unlearning for handwritten text recognition. Pattern Recognit. 2026 Link

Knowl. Based Syst.

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2024

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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

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Fast yet versatile machine unlearning for deep neural networks. Neural Networks 2025 Link

Neurocomputing

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2026

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How secure is forgetting? Linking machine unlearning to machine learning attacks. Neurocomputing 2026 Link