Summary of Unlink to Unlearn: Simplifying Edge Unlearning in Gnns, by Jiajun Tan et al.
Unlink to Unlearn: Simplifying Edge Unlearning in GNNs
by Jiajun Tan, Fei Sun, Ruichen Qiu, Du Su, Huawei Shen
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper tackles the crucial issue of data privacy in Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) by introducing the concept of edge unlearning. The goal is to enable the selective removal of specific data from trained GNNs upon user request, ensuring the “right to be forgotten.” Building on state-of-the-art approaches like GNNDelete, which suffers from over-forgetting and performance decline, this paper develops a novel method called UtU (Unlink to Unlearn). UtU simplifies GNNDelete by exclusively unlinking forget edges from graph structure, preserving high accuracy in downstream tasks while maintaining strong privacy protection. The paper demonstrates UtU’s effectiveness through extensive experiments, showcasing its lightweight and practical nature. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research paper is all about protecting people’s personal data on the internet! Imagine if you could ask a computer to “forget” certain information it learned from you. That’s exactly what this paper does for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). The problem is that current methods can accidentally delete too much information, making them less useful. This paper creates a new way called UtU (Unlink to Unlearn) that fixes this issue by only removing the unwanted data. It works really well and doesn’t require a lot of extra computing power. |
