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Certified Data Removal from Machine Learning Models
Chuan Guo · Tom Goldstein · Awni Hannun · Laurens van der Maaten

Thu Jul 16 08:00 AM -- 08:45 AM & Thu Jul 16 07:00 PM -- 07:45 PM (PDT) @
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Good data stewardship requires removal of data at the request of the data's owner. This raises the question if and how a trained machine-learning model, which implicitly stores information about its training data, should be affected by such a removal request. Is it possible to ``remove'' data from a machine-learning model? We study this problem by defining certified removal: a very strong theoretical guarantee that a model from which data is removed cannot be distinguished from a model that never observed the data to begin with. We develop a certified-removal mechanism for linear classifiers and empirically study learning settings in which this mechanism is practical.

Keywords: Privacy-preserving Statistics and Machine Learning

Author Information

Chuan Guo (Cornell University)
Tom Goldstein (University of Maryland)
Awni Hannun (Facebook AI Research)
Laurens van der Maaten (Facebook)

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