Forgettable Federated Linear Learning with Certified Data Unlearning 文章

ArXiv CS.CV2026-05-26NEWSen作者: Ruinan Jin, Minghui Chen, Qiong Zhang, Xiaoxiao Li

摘要

arXiv:2306.02216v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables collaborative model training across distributed clients while preserving user privacy. Recently, Federated Unlearning (FU) has emerged to address the "right to be forgotten" and to remove the influence of poisoned or target clients without retraining the entire FL system. However, many FU methods require communication with retained or target clients, introduce additional security risks, or store historical models, limiting their efficiency and practicality. Moreover, most FU methods for deep neural networks (DNNs) lack theoretical certification due to the complexity of nonlinear models and their training dynamics. In this work, we introduce Forgettable Federated Linear Learning, a training and unlearning framework for DNNs. Our approach uses pre-trained models to linearly approximate DNNs and achieve performance comparable to the original networks through Federated Linear Training.