diff --git a/nemo_curator/modules/exact_dedup.py b/nemo_curator/modules/exact_dedup.py
index d274d0e3..9e517291 100644
--- a/nemo_curator/modules/exact_dedup.py
+++ b/nemo_curator/modules/exact_dedup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 import time
 import warnings
 from contextlib import nullcontext
-from datetime import datetime
 from hashlib import md5
 from typing import Optional, Union
 
@@ -135,7 +134,7 @@ def hash_documents(
             # TODO: Generalize ty using self.hash_method
             return df.apply(lambda x: md5(x.encode()).hexdigest())
 
-    def __call__(self, dataset: DocumentDataset) -> Union[DocumentDataset, str]:
+    def __call__(self, dataset: DocumentDataset) -> DocumentDataset:
         """
         Find document ID's for exact duplicates in a given DocumentDataset
         Parameters
@@ -173,3 +172,85 @@ def __call__(self, dataset: DocumentDataset) -> Union[DocumentDataset, str]:
         else:
             result_dataset = dd.read_parquet(write_path)
         return DocumentDataset(result_dataset)
+
+    def identify_and_remove_old(
+        self, dataset: DocumentDataset
+    ) -> Union[DocumentDataset, str]:
+        t0 = time.time()
+
+        duplicates = self._exact_dup_ids(dataset.df)
+        exact_docs_to_remove = duplicates.map_partitions(
+            lambda x: x[x._hashes.duplicated(keep="first")]
+        )[self.id_field]
+        exact_deduped_dataset = DocumentDataset(
+            dataset.df[~dataset.df[self.id_field].isin(exact_docs_to_remove.compute())]
+        )
+
+        if self.cache_dir is None:
+            self._logger.info(
+                f"Time taken for Partial Exact Dedup Computation = {time.time() - t0}s"
+            )
+
+            return exact_deduped_dataset
+
+        write_path = os.path.join(self.cache_dir, "_exact_deduplicated.parquet")
+        with performance_report_if_with_ts_suffix(
+            self.profile_dir,
+            "exact-dedup-profile",
+        ):
+            exact_deduped_dataset.to_parquet(write_path)
+
+        self._logger.info(
+            f"Time taken for Exact Dedup Computation = {time.time() - t0}s and output written at {write_path}"
+        )
+
+        return exact_deduped_dataset
+
+    def identify_and_remove(self, dataset: DocumentDataset) -> DocumentDataset:
+        """
+        Identify and remove exact duplicates from the given DocumentDataset
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        dataset: DocumentDataset
+          The input datset to find exact duplicates
+        Returns
+        -------
+        DocumentDataset containing ID's and hashes of all duplicate documents
+        """
+        t0 = time.time()
+        df = dataset.df
+        df["_hashes"] = df[self.text_field].map_partitions(self.hash_documents)
+        shuffle_context = (
+            config.set({"dataframe.shuffle.method": "tasks"})
+            if DASK_P2P_ERROR
+            else nullcontext()
+        )
+        with shuffle_context:
+            deduplicated_df = (
+                df.shuffle(
+                    on=["_hashes"],
+                    ignore_index=True,
+                    npartitions=max(1, (df.npartitions // 3)),
+                )
+                .map_partitions(lambda x: x[~x["_hashes"].duplicated(keep="first")])
+                .drop(columns=["_hashes"])
+            )
+
+        if self.cache_dir is None:
+            self._logger.info(
+                f"Time taken for Partial Exact Dedup Computation = {time.time() - t0}s"
+            )
+
+            return deduplicated_df
+
+        write_path = os.path.join(self.cache_dir, "_exact_deduplicated.parquet")
+        with performance_report_if_with_ts_suffix(
+            self.profile_dir,
+            "exact-dedup-profile",
+        ):
+            deduplicated_df.to_parquet(write_path, write_index=False, overwrite=True)
+
+        self._logger.info(
+            f"Time taken for Exact Dedup Computation = {time.time() - t0}s and output written at {write_path}"
+        )
+        return DocumentDataset(deduplicated_df)