Summary of Mu-bench: a Multitask Multimodal Benchmark For Machine Unlearning, by Jiali Cheng et al.
MU-Bench: A Multitask Multimodal Benchmark for Machine Unlearning
by Jiali Cheng, Hadi Amiri
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents Machine Unlearning (MU) benchmarking, aiming to standardize evaluation of MU methods for selectively removing training samples. Recent advancements in MU have introduced solutions for updating trained models by deleting outdated or sensitive information. However, existing evaluations employ different approaches, architectures, and sample removal strategies, making accurate comparison challenging. To address this limitation, the authors develop MU-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark that unifies the sets of deleted samples and trained models, covering various tasks and data modalities, including speech and video classification. The evaluation shows that RandLabel and SalUn are the most effective general MU approaches on MU-Bench, while BadT and SCRUB achieve random performance on the deletion set. The paper also analyzes under-investigated aspects of unlearning, such as scalability, fine-tuning, and curriculum learning. MU-Bench provides an easy-to-use package with dataset splits, models, and implementations, along with a leader board to enable unified and scalable MU research. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making sure that machine learning models can forget what they’ve learned if needed. Imagine you trained a model on some old data, but now the data is outdated or sensitive. You want the model to “forget” this information without losing its overall knowledge. This is called Machine Unlearning (MU). The problem is that different researchers use different methods and tools to test MU models, making it hard to compare them. To fix this, the authors created a special benchmark called MU-Bench. It has all the necessary data and models for testing MU models in one place. They also tested some MU models on MU-Bench and found which ones work best. Additionally, they looked at things like how well these models can scale up to bigger tasks and whether they’re sensitive to certain biases in the data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Curriculum learning » Fine tuning » Machine learning
