DualOptim: Enhancing Efficacy and Stability in Machine Unlearning with Dual Optimizers
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15827v2
- Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:46:04 GMT
- Title: DualOptim: Enhancing Efficacy and Stability in Machine Unlearning with Dual Optimizers
- Abstract summary: We propose DualOptim, which incorporates adaptive learning rate and decoupled momentum factors.<n>We show that DualOptim can significantly boost efficacy and stability across diverse tasks, including image classification, image generation, and large language models.
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- Abstract: Existing machine unlearning (MU) approaches exhibit significant sensitivity to hyperparameters, requiring meticulous tuning that limits practical deployment. In this work, we first empirically demonstrate the instability and suboptimal performance of existing popular MU methods when deployed in different scenarios. To address this issue, we propose Dual Optimizer (DualOptim), which incorporates adaptive learning rate and decoupled momentum factors. Empirical and theoretical evidence demonstrates that DualOptim contributes to effective and stable unlearning. Through extensive experiments, we show that DualOptim can significantly boost MU efficacy and stability across diverse tasks, including image classification, image generation, and large language models, making it a versatile approach to empower existing MU algorithms.
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