Random Relabeling for Efficient Machine Unlearning
Junde Li Swaroop Ghosh
Learning algorithms and data are the driving forces for machine learning to
bring about tremendous transformation of industrial intelligence. However,
individuals' right to retract their personal data and relevant data privacy
regulations pose great challenges to machine learning: how to design an
efficient mechanism to support certified data removals. Removal of previously
seen data known as machine unlearning is challenging as these data points were
implicitly memorized in training process of learning algorithms. Retraining
remaining data from scratch straightforwardly serves such deletion requests,
however, this naive method is not often computationally feasible. We propose
the unlearning scheme random relabeling, which is applicable to generic
supervised learning algorithms, to efficiently deal with sequential data
removal requests in the online setting. A less constraining removal
certification method based on probability distribution similarity with naive
unlearning is further developed for logit-based classifiers.