WIPE-OUT 2026: 2nd Workshop on Machine Unlearning and Privacy Preservation
The 2nd Workshop on Machine Unlearning and Privacy Preservation (WIPE-OUT 2026) is co-located with ECML-PKDD 2026, taking place on September 7, 2026 in Naples, Italy.
WIPE-OUT 2026 is a leading venue for researchers working on selective data removal, privacy preservation, and the right to be forgotten in AI. This second edition brings together experts in unlearning theory, large language models, computer vision, recommender systems, privacy, and systems to advance the state of the art in machine unlearning.
Topics of Interest
- Foundations – theoretical guarantees, new unlearning and model editing algorithms, scalable unlearning, and privacy-preserving ML techniques
- Applications – real-time and streaming unlearning, model editing for LLMs and foundation models, federated/decentralized unlearning, concept erasure for generative models
- Evaluation and Benchmarking – metrics, protocols, tools, benchmarks, robustness/verification of unlearning guarantees
- Implications – explainability, interpretability, ethical/legal/societal aspects, unlearning in high-stakes domains
Key Dates
- Paper submission: May 31, 2026
- Notification: June 30, 2026
- Camera-ready: July 10, 2026
- Workshop: September 7, 2026
Organizers
- Andrea D’Angelo (University of L’Aquila)
- Claudio Savelli (Polytechnic of Turin)
- Flavio Giobergia (Polytechnic of Turin)
- Francesco Gullo (University of L’Aquila)
- Giovanni Stilo (Luiss University of Rome)