Summary of Langevin Unlearning: a New Perspective Of Noisy Gradient Descent For Machine Unlearning, by Eli Chien et al.
Langevin Unlearning: A New Perspective of Noisy Gradient Descent for Machine Unlearning
by Eli Chien, Haoyu Wang, Ziang Chen, Pan Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A machine learning framework called Langevin unlearning is introduced in this paper, which provides privacy guarantees for approximate unlearning problems. Building on the concept of Differential Privacy (DP), Langevin unlearning combines noisy gradient descent with certified unlearning for non-convex problems, offering benefits like complexity saving compared to retraining and sequential or batch unlearning for multiple requests. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper proposes a new way to “forget” information in machine learning models, making it easier for people to have their personal data erased. The researchers created an algorithm called Langevin unlearning that keeps private things private while still allowing some information to be forgotten. This is useful because sometimes we want to forget old information and keep only the most important details. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Gradient descent * Machine learning
