面向垂直联邦学习的隐私保障标签遗忘：无需披露的少样本遗忘

ICLR 2026 Poster accepted paper at ICLR 2026. This paper addresses the critical challenge of unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL), a setting that has received far less attention than its horizontal counterpart. Specifically, we propose the first method tailored to *label unlearning* in VFL, where labels play a dual role as both essential inputs and sensitive information. To this end, we employ a representation-level manifold mixup mechanism to generate synthetic embeddings for both unlearned and retained samples. This is to provide richer signals for the subsequent gradient-based label forgetting and recovery steps. These augmented embeddings are then subjected to gradient-based label forgetting, effectively removing the associated label information from the model. Code/project link: https://github.com/bryanhx/Towards-Privacy-Guaranteed-Label-Unlearning-in-Vertical-Federated-Learning