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Machine Unlearning under Overparameterization

Neural Information Processing Systems

Machine unlearning algorithms aim to remove the influence of specific training samples, ideally recovering the model that would have resulted from training on the remaining data alone. We study unlearning in the overparameterized setting, where many models interpolate the data, and defining the solution as any loss minimizer over the retained set--as in prior work in the underparameterized setting--is inadequate, since the original model may already interpolate the retained data and satisfy this condition. In this regime, loss gradients vanish, rendering prior methods based on gradient perturbations ineffective, motivating both new unlearning definitions and algorithms. For this setting, we define the unlearning solution as the minimum-complexity interpolator over the retained data and propose a new algorithmic framework that only requires access to model gradients on the retained set at the original solution. We minimize a regularized objective over perturbations constrained to be orthogonal to these model gradients, a first-order relaxation of the interpolation condition. For different model classes, we provide exact and approximate unlearning guarantees and demonstrate that an implementation of our framework outperforms existing baselines across various unlearning experiments.


Let a Neural Network Be Your Invariant

Neural Information Processing Systems

Safety verification ensures that a system avoids undesired behaviour. Liveness complements safety, ensuring that the system also achieves its desired objectives. A complete specification of functional correctness must combine both safety and liveness. Proving with mathematical certainty that a system satisfies a safety property demands presenting an appropriate inductive invariant of the system, whereas proving liveness requires showing a measure of progress witnessed by a ranking function. Neural model checking has recently introduced a data-driven approach to the formal verification of reactive systems, albeit focusing on ranking functions and thus addressing liveness properties only.


Principled Model Routing for Unknown Mixtures of Source Domains

Neural Information Processing Systems

The rapid proliferation of domain-specialized machine learning models presents a challenge: while individual models excel in specific domains, their performance varies significantly across diverse applications. This makes selecting the optimal model when faced with an unknown mixture of tasks, especially with limited or no data to estimate the mixture, a difficult problem. We address this challenge by formulating it as a multiple-source domain adaptation (MSA) problem. We introduce a novel, scalable algorithm that effectively routes each input to the best-suited model from a pool of available models. Our approach provides a strong performance guarantee: remarkably, for any mixture domain, the accuracy achieved by the best source model is maintained. This guarantee is established through a theoretical bound on the regret for new domains, expressed as a convex combination of the best regrets in the source domains, plus a concentration term that diminishes as the amount of source data increases. While our primary contributions are theoretical and algorithmic, we also present empirical results demonstrating the effectiveness of our approach.


Representation Entanglement for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Much Easier Than You Think

Neural Information Processing Systems

REPA and its variants effectively mitigate training challenges in diffusion models by incorporating external visual representations from pretrained models, through alignment between the noisy hidden projections of denoising networks and foundational clean image representations. We argue that the external alignment, which is absent during the entire denoising inference process, falls short of fully harnessing the potential of discriminative representations. In this work, we propose a straightforward method called Representation Entanglement for Generation (REG), which entangles low-level image latents with a single high-level class token from pretrained foundation models for denoising. REG acquires the capability to produce coherent image-class pairs directly from pure noise, substantially improving both generation quality and training efficiency. This is accomplished with negligible additional inference overhead, requiring only one single additional token for denoising (<0.5% increase in FLOPs and latency). The inference process concurrently reconstructs both image latents and their corresponding global semantics, where the acquired semantic knowledge actively guides and enhances the image generation process. On ImageNet 256 256, SiT-XL/2 + REG demonstrates remarkable convergence acceleration, achieving 63 and 23 faster training than SiT-XL/2 and SiT-XL/2 + REPA, respectively.


Controlling False Discovery in Arbitrarily Structured Hypothesis Spaces via Reproducing Kernels

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Large-scale hypothesis testing is central to modern science, where controlling the False Discovery Rate (FDR) has become the standard approach to managing false positives across many simultaneous tests. Hypotheses rarely exist in isolation; they often exhibit structure through proximity, connectivity, or hierarchy. This structure represents both a challenge and an opportunity: while classical methods treat these dependencies as obstacles requiring conservative correction, leveraging them can substantially increase discovery power. Here, we reframe structured FDR control as a regularized learning problem. By optimizing within a suitable Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space (RKHS), we introduce a framework that unifies continuous domains, graphs, and hierarchies under a single algorithm through kernel choice alone. This formulation enables smooth solutions in place of the piecewise-constant fits of prior methods, principled likelihood-based hyperparameter selection rather than heuristic tuning, and inference at unobserved locations which in turn supports sample-efficient experimental design. Building on this estimator, we provide two decision rules which we prove to control the FDR. We validate our method on two sources: spatial locations derived from high-dimensional real-world datasets, and a differential gene expression task utilizing protein-protein interaction graphs.