The Frontier of Data Erasure: Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.15779v1
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 09:26:15 GMT
- Title: The Frontier of Data Erasure: Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models
- Authors: Youyang Qu, Ming Ding, Nan Sun, Kanchana Thilakarathna, Tianqing Zhu, Dusit Niyato,
- Abstract summary: Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational to AI advancements.
LLMs pose risks by potentially memorizing and disseminating sensitive, biased, or copyrighted information.
Machine unlearning emerges as a cutting-edge solution to mitigate these concerns.
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- Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are foundational to AI advancements, facilitating applications like predictive text generation. Nonetheless, they pose risks by potentially memorizing and disseminating sensitive, biased, or copyrighted information from their vast datasets. Machine unlearning emerges as a cutting-edge solution to mitigate these concerns, offering techniques for LLMs to selectively discard certain data. This paper reviews the latest in machine unlearning for LLMs, introducing methods for the targeted forgetting of information to address privacy, ethical, and legal challenges without necessitating full model retraining. It divides existing research into unlearning from unstructured/textual data and structured/classification data, showcasing the effectiveness of these approaches in removing specific data while maintaining model efficacy. Highlighting the practicality of machine unlearning, this analysis also points out the hurdles in preserving model integrity, avoiding excessive or insufficient data removal, and ensuring consistent outputs, underlining the role of machine unlearning in advancing responsible, ethical AI.
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