Carolin Heinzler

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I am a PhD fellow at the Machine Learning Section of the University of Copenhagen with a focus on Unlearning, Robustness and Privacy. I am supervised by Prof. Amartya Sanyal and Prof. Amir Yehudayoff and part of the Foundations of Responsible Machine Learning Group (Cope-FoRML).

Carolin Heinzler

Research

arxiv 2026

TPDP 2026

Less Noise, Same Certificate: Retain Sensitivity for Unlearning | Slides
Carolin Heinzler, Kasra Malihi, Amartya Sanyal

Certified unlearning differs from differential privacy in that the retained data is fixed, allowing removal to be certified with less noise than would be required under worst-case DP sensitivity.

SODA 2026

FORC 2026

Learning in an Echo Chamber: Online Learning with Replay Adversary
Daniil Dmitriev, Harald Eskelund Franck, Carolin Heinzler, Amartya Sanyal$^*$ | $^*\alpha\beta$-cal order | Slides

When models train on their own past guesses, mistakes can echo and mislead learning. We introduce a learning-theoretic setting that models this phenomenon: Online Learning in the Replay Setting. We introduce a combinatorial measure, the Extended Threshold dimension, which characterises learnability in this setting.

Master's thesis

arxiv 2024

Adversarial Resilience against Clean-Label Attacks in Realizable and Noisy Settings
Carolin Heinzler

We investigate the challenge of establishing stochastic-like guarantees when learning from a stream of i.i.d. data with clean-label adversarial samples. Introducing the notion of a clean-label adversary in the agnostic context, we are the first to give a theoretical analysis of a disagreement-based learner for thresholds.

News

Service

Reviewer EurIPS 2025 Workshop PPML, NeurIPS 2025 Workshop Reliable ML, AISTATS 2025
P1 Program Member of P1 Program: Data Privacy in Machine Learning of the Pioneer Center for AI, Denmark
Local Organizer

Affinity Event of the Learning Theory Alliance at EurIPS 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark

IEEE Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning (SaTML) 2025 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Representation PhD student representative in LSU committee for Computer Science Department, University of Copenhagen (2024-ongoing)
Teaching Assistant

Machine Learning A (2025, University of Copenhagen), Mathematics of Signals, Networks and Learning (2024, ETH Zurich), Quantitative Risk Management (2024, ETH Zurich), Probability Theory and Statistics (2023, ETH Zurich), Introduction to Mathematics (2021-2022, WU Vienna), Introduction to Phyton (2019-2021, University of Vienna)