Youssef Allouah

I am a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University. I received my PhD in computer science from EPFL and graduated in mathematics and computer science from Ecole Polytechnique. I also interned at Amazon.

I study the foundations of trustworthy machine learning, spanning privacy, robustness, and unlearning.

Youssef Allouah

Recent Work

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The Distillation Game: Adaptive Attacks & Efficient Defenses

Y. Allouah*, M. Haghifam*, S. Koyejo, R. Shokri. (* equal contribution)

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What to Forget in Unlearning? Forget Set Curation for Language Models

A. Jha, A. Khatua, Y. Allouah, S. Koyejo.

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Distributional Machine Unlearning via Selective Data Removal

Y. Allouah, R. Guerraoui, S. Koyejo.

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

ICML Workshop on Machine Unlearning for Generative AI (MUGen), 2025 (Oral)

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Certified Unlearning for Neural Networks

A. Koloskova*, Y. Allouah*, A. Jha, R. Guerraoui, S. Koyejo. (* equal contribution)

International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025

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