Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Li, Jiaqi, Wei, Qianshan, Zhang, Chuanyi, Qi, Guilin, Du, Miaozeng, Chen, Yongrui, Bi, Sheng, Liu, Fan
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author Li, Jiaqi
Wei, Qianshan
Zhang, Chuanyi
Qi, Guilin
Du, Miaozeng
Chen, Yongrui
Bi, Sheng
Liu, Fan
author_facet Li, Jiaqi
Wei, Qianshan
Zhang, Chuanyi
Qi, Guilin
Du, Miaozeng
Chen, Yongrui
Bi, Sheng
Liu, Fan
contents Machine unlearning empowers individuals with the `right to be forgotten' by removing their private or sensitive information encoded in machine learning models. However, it remains uncertain whether MU can be effectively applied to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), particularly in scenarios of forgetting the leaked visual data of concepts. To overcome the challenge, we propose an efficient method, Single Image Unlearning (SIU), to unlearn the visual recognition of a concept by fine-tuning a single associated image for few steps. SIU consists of two key aspects: (i) Constructing Multifaceted fine-tuning data. We introduce four targets, based on which we construct fine-tuning data for the concepts to be forgotten; (ii) Jointly training loss. To synchronously forget the visual recognition of concepts and preserve the utility of MLLMs, we fine-tune MLLMs through a novel Dual Masked KL-divergence Loss combined with Cross Entropy loss. Alongside our method, we establish MMUBench, a new benchmark for MU in MLLMs and introduce a collection of metrics for its evaluation. Experimental results on MMUBench show that SIU completely surpasses the performance of existing methods. Furthermore, we surprisingly find that SIU can avoid invasive membership inference attacks and jailbreak attacks. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore MU in MLLMs. We will release the code and benchmark in the near future.
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spellingShingle Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models
Li, Jiaqi
Wei, Qianshan
Zhang, Chuanyi
Qi, Guilin
Du, Miaozeng
Chen, Yongrui
Bi, Sheng
Liu, Fan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine unlearning empowers individuals with the `right to be forgotten' by removing their private or sensitive information encoded in machine learning models. However, it remains uncertain whether MU can be effectively applied to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), particularly in scenarios of forgetting the leaked visual data of concepts. To overcome the challenge, we propose an efficient method, Single Image Unlearning (SIU), to unlearn the visual recognition of a concept by fine-tuning a single associated image for few steps. SIU consists of two key aspects: (i) Constructing Multifaceted fine-tuning data. We introduce four targets, based on which we construct fine-tuning data for the concepts to be forgotten; (ii) Jointly training loss. To synchronously forget the visual recognition of concepts and preserve the utility of MLLMs, we fine-tune MLLMs through a novel Dual Masked KL-divergence Loss combined with Cross Entropy loss. Alongside our method, we establish MMUBench, a new benchmark for MU in MLLMs and introduce a collection of metrics for its evaluation. Experimental results on MMUBench show that SIU completely surpasses the performance of existing methods. Furthermore, we surprisingly find that SIU can avoid invasive membership inference attacks and jailbreak attacks. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore MU in MLLMs. We will release the code and benchmark in the near future.
title Single Image Unlearning: Efficient Machine Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12523