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Phantom Forgetting: How BatchNorm State Fakes Deletion in Edge Split Machine Unlearning

Split-learning unlearning on edge devices may leave residual data traces in BatchNorm state—a gap with direct implications for GDPR erasure compliance in federated AI deployments.

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arXiv:2610.34800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Split learning is a natural fit for edge intelligence: a resource-constrained edge device runs the first layers of a network and offloads the remainder to a server, so that raw data never leave the device. When such a system must unlearn revoked or sensitive data for example to honor a right-to-erasure request, the deletion is commonly assessed through changes in forget-set accuracy. However, inference on an edge-server split also depends on non-l

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Enterprises relying on edge-based split learning for privacy must verify that unlearning actually erases data, not just appears to.

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