首次实证研究量子神经网络中的机器遗忘,发现深度与纠缠结构影响遗忘效果。
Machine Unlearning in the Era of Quantum Machine Learning: An Empirical Study
- 将梯度、蒸馏、正则化等经典遗忘方法适配到量子混合模型中
- 浅层电路遗忘能力强,深层模型需权衡性能与遗忘程度
- EU-k、LCA等方法在多种任务中表现最佳,适合隐私保护场景
我们首次对混合量子-经典神经网络中的机器遗忘(MU)进行了实证研究。尽管经典深度学习中已有广泛探索,但变分量子电路(VQCs)和量子增强架构中的遗忘行为仍不明确。本文将多种遗忘方法——包括基于梯度、蒸馏、正则化及认证技术——拓展至量子场景,并提出两种针对混合模型的新策略。在Iris、MNIST和Fashion-MNIST数据集上,分别进行子集删除和全类别删除实验,结果表明:量子模型可实现有效遗忘,但表现依赖于电路深度、纠缠结构和任务复杂度。浅层VQC具有高内在稳定性且记忆较少,而深层混合模型在实用性、遗忘强度与重训练基准对齐之间存在显著权衡。发现如EU-k、LCA和认证遗忘等方法在各项指标间保持良好平衡。这些结果为量子机器学习中的遗忘机制提供了首个实证基线,强调了未来需发展量子感知算法与理论保障,以应对量子机器学习系统规模与能力的持续扩展。代码已公开:https://github.com/CrivoiCarla/HQML。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We present the first empirical study of machine unlearning (MU) in hybrid quantum-classical neural networks. While MU has been extensively explored in classical deep learning, its behavior within variational quantum circuits (VQCs) and quantum-augmented architectures remains largely unexplored. First, we adapt a broad suite of unlearning methods to quantum settings, including gradient-based, distillation-based, regularization-based and certified techniques. Second, we introduce two new unlearning strategies tailored to hybrid models. Experiments across Iris, MNIST, and Fashion-MNIST, under both subset removal and full-class deletion, reveal that quantum models can support effective unlearning, but outcomes depend strongly on circuit depth, entanglement structure, and task complexity. Shallow VQCs display high intrinsic stability with minimal memorization, whereas deeper hybrid models exhibit stronger trade-offs between utility, forgetting strength, and alignment with retrain oracle. We find that certain methods, e.g. EU-k, LCA, and Certified Unlearning, consistently provide the best balance across metrics. These findings establish baseline empirical insights into quantum machine unlearning and highlight the need for quantum-aware algorithms and theoretical guarantees, as quantum machine learning systems continue to expand in scale and capability. We publicly release our code at: https://github.com/CrivoiCarla/HQML.
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