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| author | Zheng, Amber Yijia Bai, Cedar Site Bullins, Brian Yeh, Raymond A. |
| author_facet | Zheng, Amber Yijia Bai, Cedar Site Bullins, Brian Yeh, Raymond A. |
| contents | Model immunization aims to pre-train models that are difficult to fine-tune on harmful tasks while retaining their utility on other non-harmful tasks. Though prior work has shown empirical evidence for immunizing text-to-image models, the key understanding of when immunization is possible and a precise definition of an immunized model remain unclear. In this work, we propose a framework, based on the condition number of a Hessian matrix, to analyze model immunization for linear models. Building on this framework, we design an algorithm with regularization terms to control the resulting condition numbers after pre-training. Empirical results on linear models and non-linear deep-nets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on model immunization. The code is available at https://github.com/amberyzheng/model-immunization-cond-num. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Model Immunization from a Condition Number Perspective Zheng, Amber Yijia Bai, Cedar Site Bullins, Brian Yeh, Raymond A. Machine Learning Model immunization aims to pre-train models that are difficult to fine-tune on harmful tasks while retaining their utility on other non-harmful tasks. Though prior work has shown empirical evidence for immunizing text-to-image models, the key understanding of when immunization is possible and a precise definition of an immunized model remain unclear. In this work, we propose a framework, based on the condition number of a Hessian matrix, to analyze model immunization for linear models. Building on this framework, we design an algorithm with regularization terms to control the resulting condition numbers after pre-training. Empirical results on linear models and non-linear deep-nets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm on model immunization. The code is available at https://github.com/amberyzheng/model-immunization-cond-num. |
| title | Model Immunization from a Condition Number Perspective |
| topic | Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23760 |