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New CUNO framework tackles catastrophic unlearning in graph models

Researchers have developed CUNO, a new framework for graph unlearning designed to mitigate catastrophic unlearning, a phenomenon where model utility sharply declines with large amounts of deleted data. CUNO addresses this by progressively removing data samples based on their estimated unlearning difficulty and employing a negative preference optimization objective to guide the model away from its original behavior without sacrificing retained performance. Experiments show CUNO significantly improves utility retention, maintaining over half the original performance even at 50% data deletion, outperforming existing methods. AI

IMPACT This research could improve the ability to selectively remove data from trained models, enhancing privacy and data management in graph-based machine learning applications.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chenhan Zhang, Ali Braytee, Madhushi Bandara, Xin Hao, Paul J. Kennedy, Massimo Piccardi, Raymond Owen ·

    CUNO: Curriculum and Preference Optimization for Stable Graph Unlearning under Mass Deletion

    arXiv:2609.08244v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph unlearning removes the influence of designated training data from a trained graph model without retraining from scratch. However, existing methods suffer a sharp drop in model utility under large deletion ratios (mass deleti…