Silver Linings in the Shadows: Harnessing Membership Inference for Machine Unlearning
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.00866v2
- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 18:01:16 GMT
- Title: Silver Linings in the Shadows: Harnessing Membership Inference for Machine Unlearning
- Authors: Nexhi Sula, Abhinav Kumar, Jie Hou, Han Wang, Reza Tourani,
- Abstract summary: We present a novel unlearning mechanism designed to remove the impact of specific data samples from a neural network.
In achieving this goal, we crafted a novel loss function tailored to eliminate privacy-sensitive information from weights and activation values of the target model.
Our results showcase the superior performance of our approach in terms of unlearning efficacy and latency as well as the fidelity of the primary task.
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- License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
- Abstract: With the continued advancement and widespread adoption of machine learning (ML) models across various domains, ensuring user privacy and data security has become a paramount concern. In compliance with data privacy regulations, such as GDPR, a secure machine learning framework should not only grant users the right to request the removal of their contributed data used for model training but also facilitates the elimination of sensitive data fingerprints within machine learning models to mitigate potential attack - a process referred to as machine unlearning. In this study, we present a novel unlearning mechanism designed to effectively remove the impact of specific data samples from a neural network while considering the performance of the unlearned model on the primary task. In achieving this goal, we crafted a novel loss function tailored to eliminate privacy-sensitive information from weights and activation values of the target model by combining target classification loss and membership inference loss. Our adaptable framework can easily incorporate various privacy leakage approximation mechanisms to guide the unlearning process. We provide empirical evidence of the effectiveness of our unlearning approach with a theoretical upper-bound analysis through a membership inference mechanism as a proof of concept. Our results showcase the superior performance of our approach in terms of unlearning efficacy and latency as well as the fidelity of the primary task, across four datasets and four deep learning architectures.
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