Summary of Forgetting Through Transforming: Enabling Federated Unlearning Via Class-aware Representation Transformation, by Qi Guo et al.
Forgetting Through Transforming: Enabling Federated Unlearning via Class-Aware Representation Transformation
by Qi Guo, Zhen Tian, Minghao Yao, Yong Qi, Saiyu Qi, Yun Li, Jin Song Dong
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Oct 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 The proposed Federated Unlearning (FU) method enables clients to selectively remove the influence of specific data from a trained federated learning model, addressing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements. The novel FUCRT approach achieves unlearning through class-aware representation transformation, employing two key components: a transformation class selection strategy and a transformation alignment technique using dual class-aware contrastive learning. Extensive experiments on four datasets demonstrate superior performance in terms of erasure guarantee, model utility preservation, and efficiency. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Federated Unlearning (FU) is a new way to help keep people’s personal data private when sharing information with others. Right now, this process can be tricky because it needs to balance keeping the private info safe while still using the rest of the shared data correctly. The team came up with a new idea called FUCRT that helps solve this problem by changing how the data is represented. They tested it on four different groups of data and found that it works really well, keeping all the private information completely hidden while still being able to use the rest of the data effectively. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Federated learning
