ERASE - A Real-World Aligned Benchmark for Unlearning in Recommender Systems
Published in SIGIR '26, 2026
We present ERASE, a large-scale benchmark for machine unlearning in recommender systems designed to align with real-world usage, spanning collaborative filtering, session-based, and next-basket recommendation, covering seven unlearning algorithms across nine datasets and nine state-of-the-art models.
Recommended citation: Pierre Lubitzsch, Maarten de Rijke, Sebastian Schelter. (2026). "ERASE - A Real-World Aligned Benchmark for Unlearning in Recommender Systems." In Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR '26), pp. 3310–3318.
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