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Data Attribution at Scale via Influence Matrix Estimation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 14, 2026 · UTC

Data attribution seeks to quantify how individual training examples shape a model's predictions and underpins problems including data valuation, machine unlearning, and model interpretability. Despite having a long line of work, computationally scalable methods often struggle to predict the effect of removing training data in neural networks due to their non-convex nature. To overcome this challenge, metagradient-based methods such as MAGIC (Ilyas and Engstrom, 2025) differentiate each prediction through the entire training run and compute its exact influence with respect to the training data,

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