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Extracting Forgotten Prompts from Targeted Unlearned Models
Au Ashley Hoi-Ting, Meghdad Kurmanji, William F. Shen +2
Recent unlearning methods (e.g. NPO, DPO, LUNAR) make use of refusal alignment to suppress forgotten data. However, it has been shown that refusal responses might leave traces of u…
The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators
Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanović, William F. Shen +12
Self-improving agents are state-of-the-art on agentic coding benchmarks, yet their search methods assume a stationary evaluation criterion. This ignores a central feature of evolut…
FoMoE: Breaking the Full-Replica Barrier with a Federation of MoEs
Lorenzo Sani, Zeyu Cao, Meghdad Kurmanji +5
Pre-training Large Language Models (LLMs) typically demands large-scale infrastructure with tightly coupled hardware accelerators. Mixture-of-Experts (MoEs) architectures partially…
Response-Conditioned Parallel-to-Sequential Orchestration for Multi-Agent Systems
Nurbek Tastan, Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani +4
Multi-agent systems can solve complex tasks through collaboration between multiple Large Language Model agents. Existing collaboration frameworks typically operate in either a para…
Task-Centric Personalized Federated Fine-Tuning of Language Models
Gabriel U. Talasso, Meghdad Kurmanji, Allan M. de Souza +2
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising technique for training language models on distributed and private datasets of diverse tasks. However, aggregating models trained…
-FUM: Federated Unlearning via min--max and -divergence
Radmehr Karimian, Amirhossein Bagheri, Meghdad Kurmanji +2
Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative training while keeping raw data on clients. Deletion requests and the discovery of poisoned data create a need to remove selected cont…
MT-DAO: Multi-Timescale Distributed Adaptive Optimizers with Local Updates
Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanovic, Mher Safaryan +6
Training large models with distributed data parallelism (DDP) requires frequent communication of gradients across workers, which can saturate bandwidth. Infrequent communication st…
AbbIE: Autoregressive Block-Based Iterative Encoder for Efficient Sequence Modeling
Preslav Aleksandrov, Meghdad Kurmanji, Fernando Garcia Redondo +7
We introduce the Autoregressive Block-Based Iterative Encoder (AbbIE), a novel recursive generalization of the encoder-only Transformer architecture, which achieves better perplexi…
DES-LOC: Desynced Low Communication Adaptive Optimizers for Training Foundation Models
Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Mher Safaryan +8
Scaling foundation model training with Distributed Data Parallel (DDP) methods is bandwidth-limited. Existing infrequent communication methods like Local SGD were designed to synch…
Editing as Unlearning: Are Knowledge Editing Methods Strong Baselines for Large Language Model Unlearning?
Zexi Li, Xiangzhu Wang, William F. Shen +5
Large language Model (LLM) unlearning, i.e., selectively removing information from LLMs, is vital for responsible model deployment. Differently, LLM knowledge editing aims to modif…
Position: Bridge the Gaps between Machine Unlearning and AI Regulation
Bill Marino, Meghdad Kurmanji, Nicholas D. Lane
The ''right to be forgotten'' and the data privacy laws that encode it have motivated machine unlearning since its earliest days. Now, some argue that an inbound wave of artificial…
LLM Unlearning via Neural Activation Redirection
William F. Shen, Xinchi Qiu, Meghdad Kurmanji +5
The ability to selectively remove knowledge from LLMs is highly desirable. However, existing methods often struggle with balancing unlearning efficacy and retain model utility, and…
DEPT: Decoupled Embeddings for Pre-training Language Models
Alex Iacob, Lorenzo Sani, Meghdad Kurmanji +5
Language Model pre-training uses broad data mixtures to enhance performance across domains and languages. However, training on such heterogeneous text corpora requires extensive an…
Are we making progress in unlearning? Findings from the first NeurIPS unlearning competition
Eleni Triantafillou, Peter Kairouz, Fabian Pedregosa +12
We present the findings of the first NeurIPS competition on unlearning, which sought to stimulate the development of novel algorithms and initiate discussions on formal and robust…
What makes unlearning hard and what to do about it
Kairan Zhao, Meghdad Kurmanji, George-Octavian Bărbulescu +2
Machine unlearning is the problem of removing the effect of a subset of training data (the ''forget set'') from a trained model without damaging the model's utility e.g. to comply…
Machine Unlearning in Learned Databases: An Experimental Analysis
Meghdad Kurmanji, Eleni Triantafillou, Peter Triantafillou
Machine learning models based on neural networks (NNs) are enjoying ever-increasing attention in the DB community. However, an important issue has been largely overlooked, namely t…
Towards Unbounded Machine Unlearning
Meghdad Kurmanji, Peter Triantafillou, Jamie Hayes +1
Deep machine unlearning is the problem of `removing' from a trained neural network a subset of its training set. This problem is very timely and has many applications, including th…
Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data
Meghdad Kurmanji, Peter Triantafillou
Machine Learning (ML) is changing DBs as many DB components are being replaced by ML models. One open problem in this setting is how to update such ML models in the presence of dat…