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Machine unlearning is a branch of machine learning focused on removing specific undesired element, such as private data, outdated information, copyrighted material, harmful content, dangerous abilities, or misinformation, without needing to rebuild models from the ground up.

History

Early research efforts were largely motivated by Article 17 of the GDPR, the European Union's privacy regulation commonly known as the "right to be forgotten" (RTBF), introduced in 2014.

Present

GDPR could not foresee that invention of large language models would make data erasure a challenging task. This challenge later spurred research into “data deletion” and “machine unlearning” and the focus has shifted to unlearning copyrighted material, harmful content, dangerous abilities, and misinformation.

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