arXiv Machine Learning

Generative Model Unlearning: A Survey through Target Events, Unlearning Operators, and Evaluation Protocols

arXiv:2507. 19894v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rapid advancement of generative models, privacy, copyright, safety, and reliability risks have attracted growing attention.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

Distribution Preference Optimization: A Fine-grained Perspective for LLM Unlearning

arXiv:2510. 04773v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities learned from vast corpora, concerns regarding data privacy and safety are receiving increasing attention.

By Kai Qin, Jiaqi Wu, Jianxiang He, Haoyuan Sun, Yifei Zhao, Xu Wang, Bin Liang, Yongzhe Chang, Cheng Li, Tiantian Zhang, Houde Liu
arXiv AI
Aug 3

TextCloak: Thwarting Unauthorized LLM Exploitation via RL-Driven Unlearnable Text

arXiv:2607. 28862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to significant advances across a wide range of language tasks, while simultaneously raising growing concerns about unauthorized data exploitation and privacy leakage.

By Chengshuai Zhao, Pingchuan Ma, Dawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Zhiyuan Yu, Zhen Tan, Huan Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Catch-Only-One: Non-Transferable Examples for Model-Specific Authorization

arXiv:2510. 10982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent AI regulations increasingly emphasize the need for mechanisms that preserve the utility of data for AI innovation while preventing misuse, particularly by enforcing purpose limitation in downstream AI applications.

By Zihan Wang, Zhiyong Ma, Zhongkui Ma, Shuofeng Liu, Akide Liu, Derui Wang, Minhui Xue, Guangdong Bai
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Do Models Share Safety Representations? Cross-Model Steering for Safe Visual Generation

arXiv:2606. 05290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generative modeling has made safety control a central challenge, yet existing approaches remain largely model-specific, requiring retraining or tailored interventions for each new architecture.

By Tobia Poppi, Silvia Cappelletti, Sara Sarto, Florian Schiffers, Garin Kessler, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
arXiv AI
Jul 21

A Survey on Unlearnable Data

arXiv:2503. 23536v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlearnable data (ULD) has emerged as an innovative defense technique to prevent machine learning models from learning meaningful patterns from specific data, thus protecting data privacy and security.

By Jiahao Li, Yiqiang Chen, Yunbing Xing, Yang Gu, Xiangyuan Lan