Summary of Debiasing Machine Unlearning with Counterfactual Examples, by Ziheng Chen et al.
Debiasing Machine Unlearning with Counterfactual Examples
by Ziheng Chen, Jia Wang, Jun Zhuang, Abbavaram Gowtham Reddy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jin Huang, Kaushiki Nag, Kun Kuang, Xin Ning, Gabriele Tolomei
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed approach to Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) in machine learning tackles the issue of unlearning processes bias, which arises from both data-level and algorithm-level biases. The paper analyzes these causal factors and presents a novel intervention-based method that erases knowledge to forget using a debiased dataset. Additionally, it utilizes counterfactual examples to maintain semantic data consistency without compromising performance on the remaining dataset. Experimental results show that this approach outperforms existing machine unlearning baselines in terms of evaluation metrics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Machine learning is trying to help people “forget” old information. But sometimes, this process can be biased. This bias comes from two places: when we remove some data or when our algorithm gets messed up by what’s left. The researchers looked at why these biases happen and came up with a new way to make the forgetting process fairer. They used special examples called counterfactuals to keep the remaining data accurate and good. This approach worked better than other ways of doing machine unlearning. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
