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Efficient Machine Unlearning by Model Splitting and Core Sample Selection

Egger, Maximilian
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Bitar, Rawad
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Urbanke, Rüdiger  
September 29, 2025
2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

Machine unlearning is essential for meeting legal obligations such as the right to be forgotten, which requires the removal of specific data from machine learning models upon request. While several approaches to unlearning have been proposed, existing solutions often struggle with efficiency and, more critically, with the verification of unlearning—particularly in the case of weak unlearning guarantees, where verification remains an open challenge. We introduce a generalized variant of the standard unlearning metric that enables more efficient and precise unlearning strategies. We also present an unlearning-aware training procedure that, in many cases, allows for exact unlearning. We term our approach MaxRR. When exact unlearning is not feasible, MaxRR still supports efficient unlearning with properties closely matching those achieved through full retraining.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/itw62417.2025.11240389
Author(s)
Egger, Maximilian

Technical University of Munich

Bitar, Rawad

Technical University of Munich

Urbanke, Rüdiger  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-09-29

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)
DOI of the book
https://doi.org/10.1109/ITW62417.2025
ISBN of the book

979-8-3315-3142-3

Start page

1

End page

6

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REVIEWED

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EPFL

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
2025 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW)

ITW 2025

Sydney, Australia

2025-09-29 - 2025-10-03

Available on Infoscience
February 19, 2026
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/260402
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