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Main Authors: Grimes, Keltin, Abidi, Collin, Frank, Cole, Gallagher, Shannon
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19211
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author Grimes, Keltin
Abidi, Collin
Frank, Cole
Gallagher, Shannon
author_facet Grimes, Keltin
Abidi, Collin
Frank, Cole
Gallagher, Shannon
contents Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including attacks that leak information about the model's training data. There has recently been an increase in interest about how to best address privacy concerns, especially in the presence of data-removal requests. Machine unlearning algorithms aim to efficiently update trained models to comply with data deletion requests while maintaining performance and without having to resort to retraining the model from scratch, a costly endeavor. Several algorithms in the machine unlearning literature demonstrate some level of privacy gains, but they are often evaluated only on rudimentary membership inference attacks, which do not represent realistic threats. In this paper we describe and propose alternative evaluation methods for three key shortcomings in the current evaluation of unlearning algorithms. We show the utility of our alternative evaluations via a series of experiments of state-of-the-art unlearning algorithms on different computer vision datasets, presenting a more detailed picture of the state of the field.
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spellingShingle Gone but Not Forgotten: Improved Benchmarks for Machine Unlearning
Grimes, Keltin
Abidi, Collin
Frank, Cole
Gallagher, Shannon
Machine Learning
Machine learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including attacks that leak information about the model's training data. There has recently been an increase in interest about how to best address privacy concerns, especially in the presence of data-removal requests. Machine unlearning algorithms aim to efficiently update trained models to comply with data deletion requests while maintaining performance and without having to resort to retraining the model from scratch, a costly endeavor. Several algorithms in the machine unlearning literature demonstrate some level of privacy gains, but they are often evaluated only on rudimentary membership inference attacks, which do not represent realistic threats. In this paper we describe and propose alternative evaluation methods for three key shortcomings in the current evaluation of unlearning algorithms. We show the utility of our alternative evaluations via a series of experiments of state-of-the-art unlearning algorithms on different computer vision datasets, presenting a more detailed picture of the state of the field.
title Gone but Not Forgotten: Improved Benchmarks for Machine Unlearning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.19211