As generative AI models move from massive cloud servers to phones and cars, they’re stripped down to save power. But what gets trimmed can include the technology that stops them from spewing hate speech or offering roadmaps for criminal activity. To counter this threat, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, have developed a method...

A team of ECE researchers, doctoral student Umit Yigit Basaran, Prof. Amit Roy-Chowdhury, and Prof. Basak Guler, developed a new method that allows artificial intelligence models to erase private or copyrighted information without needing access to the original training data. The method, called “source-free certified unlearning” is detailed in a recent paper “A Certified Unlearning...