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Unlearning with Fisher Masking

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arxiv 2310.05331 v1 pith:OI6JVRSN submitted 2023-10-09 cs.LG

classification cs.LG
keywords unlearningdatamaskingfine-tuningfishercompletelyperformancesremain
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Machine unlearning aims to revoke some training data after learning in response to requests from users, model developers, and administrators. Most previous methods are based on direct fine-tuning, which may neither remove data completely nor retain full performances on the remain data. In this work, we find that, by first masking some important parameters before fine-tuning, the performances of unlearning could be significantly improved. We propose a new masking strategy tailored to unlearning based on Fisher information. Experiments on various datasets and network structures show the effectiveness of the method: without any fine-tuning, the proposed Fisher masking could unlearn almost completely while maintaining most of the performance on the remain data. It also exhibits stronger stability compared to other unlearning baselines

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