Summary of Instance-level Difficulty: a Missing Perspective in Machine Unlearning, by Hammad Rizwan et al.
Instance-Level Difficulty: A Missing Perspective in Machine Unlearning
by Hammad Rizwan, Mahtab Sarvmaili, Hassan Sajjad, Ga Wu
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 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 paper proposes a new approach to deep machine unlearning by analyzing the instance-level difficulty of unlearning individual training samples. The authors identify four factors that make unlearning challenging and demonstrate that these factors are independent of the unlearning algorithm, but dependent on the target model and its training data. This research contributes to the broader understanding of machine unlearning feasibility. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how easy or hard it is to forget specific pieces of information that a computer learned from a certain dataset. They found four things that make it harder to “unlearn” something, and these things don’t depend on what method you use to try to forget the information, but do depend on which model and data are being used. |
