SIFU: Sequential Informed Federated Unlearning for Efficient and Provable Client Unlearning in Federated Optimization

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Hauptverfasser: Fraboni, Yann, Van Waerebeke, Martin, Scaman, Kevin, Vidal, Richard, Kameni, Laetitia, Lorenzi, Marco
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Veröffentlicht: 2022
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author Fraboni, Yann
Van Waerebeke, Martin
Scaman, Kevin
Vidal, Richard
Kameni, Laetitia
Lorenzi, Marco
author_facet Fraboni, Yann
Van Waerebeke, Martin
Scaman, Kevin
Vidal, Richard
Kameni, Laetitia
Lorenzi, Marco
contents Machine Unlearning (MU) is an increasingly important topic in machine learning safety, aiming at removing the contribution of a given data point from a training procedure. Federated Unlearning (FU) consists in extending MU to unlearn a given client's contribution from a federated training routine. While several FU methods have been proposed, we currently lack a general approach providing formal unlearning guarantees to the FedAvg routine, while ensuring scalability and generalization beyond the convex assumption on the clients' loss functions. We aim at filling this gap by proposing SIFU (Sequential Informed Federated Unlearning), a new FU method applying to both convex and non-convex optimization regimes. SIFU naturally applies to FedAvg without additional computational cost for the clients and provides formal guarantees on the quality of the unlearning task. We provide a theoretical analysis of the unlearning properties of SIFU, and practically demonstrate its effectiveness as compared to a panel of unlearning methods from the state-of-the-art.
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spellingShingle SIFU: Sequential Informed Federated Unlearning for Efficient and Provable Client Unlearning in Federated Optimization
Fraboni, Yann
Van Waerebeke, Martin
Scaman, Kevin
Vidal, Richard
Kameni, Laetitia
Lorenzi, Marco
Machine Learning
Machine Unlearning (MU) is an increasingly important topic in machine learning safety, aiming at removing the contribution of a given data point from a training procedure. Federated Unlearning (FU) consists in extending MU to unlearn a given client's contribution from a federated training routine. While several FU methods have been proposed, we currently lack a general approach providing formal unlearning guarantees to the FedAvg routine, while ensuring scalability and generalization beyond the convex assumption on the clients' loss functions. We aim at filling this gap by proposing SIFU (Sequential Informed Federated Unlearning), a new FU method applying to both convex and non-convex optimization regimes. SIFU naturally applies to FedAvg without additional computational cost for the clients and provides formal guarantees on the quality of the unlearning task. We provide a theoretical analysis of the unlearning properties of SIFU, and practically demonstrate its effectiveness as compared to a panel of unlearning methods from the state-of-the-art.
title SIFU: Sequential Informed Federated Unlearning for Efficient and Provable Client Unlearning in Federated Optimization
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11656