# Machine Unlearning on ImageNet Class Forgetting 3-class average

Source: [Machine Unlearning on ImageNet Class Forgetting 3-class average](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/machine-unlearning-on-imagenet-class-forgetting-3-class-average>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2026-03-10T09:21:57.882Z

Evaluation of Machine Unlearning performance specifically focusing on the average forgetting rate across 3 designated classes within the ImageNet Class Forgetting dataset configuration.

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

| Scope | Recorded value |
| --- | --- |
| Task | Machine Unlearning |
| Dataset (including any stated split) | ImageNet Class Forgetting 3-class average |
| Metric | Utility Score (Au) |
| Unit | PERCENT |
| Direction | Higher is better |
| Results loaded | 26 of 26 |
| Coverage | All results currently returned for this benchmark |

Evaluation settings may differ between results. The original papers and recorded configurations are needed to establish comparability. A shared metric name alone does not establish an identical protocol.

## Metrics

- [Utility Score (Au)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/machine-unlearning-on-imagenet-class-forgetting-3-class-average.md?metric=Utility%20Score%20(Au)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Retention Score (Ar)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/machine-unlearning-on-imagenet-class-forgetting-3-class-average.md?metric=Retention%20Score%20(Ar)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Test Accuracy (Atest)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/machine-unlearning-on-imagenet-class-forgetting-3-class-average.md?metric=Test%20Accuracy%20(Atest)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

- [Unlearning Impact Score (UIS)](<https://www.sota2.com/research/sota/machine-unlearning-on-imagenet-class-forgetting-3-class-average.md?metric=Unlearning%20Impact%20Score%20(UIS)>): Higher is better; unit: PERCENT.

## Recorded results

| Method | Utility Score (Au) | Result date | Report paper |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Original | 98.1 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| FISHER | 98.02 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| FT | 91.97 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| Original | 91.76 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| FISHER | 91.64 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| Influence | 78.82 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| FT | 78.02 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| SCRUB | 45.82 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| NegGrad+ | 28.92 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| NegGrad | 22.53 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| Influence | 15.28 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| GDR-GMA | 0.74 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| SCRUB | 0.53 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| OrthoGrad | 0.48 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| NegGrad | 0.41 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| GDR-GMA | 0.15 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| OrthoGrad | 0.1 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| NegGrad+ | 0.05 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| Retrain | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| DUCK | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| SSD | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| SCAR | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| Retrain | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| DUCK | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| SSD | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |
| SCAR | 0 | Not recorded | 68fa773c1e209131cea71e18 |

### Original

Utility Score (Au): 98.1. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888e4.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FISHER

Utility Score (Au): 98.02. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888e9.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67551e209131cea158d5.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FT

Utility Score (Au): 91.97. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888e6.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Original

Utility Score (Au): 91.76. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b958891f.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FISHER

Utility Score (Au): 91.64. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588924.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa67551e209131cea158d5.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Influence

Utility Score (Au): 78.82. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588925.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa68f81e209131cea1f643.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### FT

Utility Score (Au): 78.02. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588921.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SCRUB

Utility Score (Au): 45.82. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888eb.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa71011e209131cea4e7b9.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Meghdad92/SCRUB>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### NegGrad+

Utility Score (Au): 28.92. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588923.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa71011e209131cea4e7b9.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Meghdad92/SCRUB>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### NegGrad

Utility Score (Au): 22.53. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588922.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa68881e209131cea1cbe9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Influence

Utility Score (Au): 15.28. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888ea.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa68f81e209131cea1f643.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GDR-GMA

Utility Score (Au): 0.74. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588928.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SCRUB

Utility Score (Au): 0.53. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588926.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa71011e209131cea4e7b9.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Meghdad92/SCRUB>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### OrthoGrad

Utility Score (Au): 0.48. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b958892b.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### NegGrad

Utility Score (Au): 0.41. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888e7.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa68881e209131cea1cbe9.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### GDR-GMA

Utility Score (Au): 0.15. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888ed.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### OrthoGrad

Utility Score (Au): 0.1. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888f0.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### NegGrad+

Utility Score (Au): 0.05. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888e8.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa71011e209131cea4e7b9.md>)

[Implementation](<https://github.com/Meghdad92/SCRUB>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retrain

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888e5.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72cd1e209131cea5888f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DUCK

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888ec.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73121e209131cea5a465.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SSD

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888ee.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa717d1e209131cea51995.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SCAR

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b95888ef.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72ee1e209131cea595a3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ViT"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### Retrain

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588920.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72cd1e209131cea5888f.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### DUCK

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588927.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73121e209131cea5a465.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SSD

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b9588929.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa717d1e209131cea51995.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

### SCAR

Utility Score (Au): 0. Result ID: 69afe2ae6dbb7075b958892a.

[Reporting paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa773c1e209131cea71e18.md>)

[Method origin paper](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa72ee1e209131cea595a3.md>)

Recorded evaluation configuration: {"Architecture":"ResNet18","Evaluation Protocol":"Class Forgetting"}. This record does not assert independent reproduction.

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