arXiv:2608.29943v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can memorize sensitive information, raising serious privacy concerns. Machine unlearning offers a potential solution to re...
By Shicheng Hu, Runzhi Tian, Ziqiao Wang, Yongyi Mao
arXiv:2506. 14003v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning (MU) for large language models (LLMs), commonly referred to as LLM unlearning, seeks to remove specific undesirable data or knowledge from a trained model, while maintaining its performance on standard tasks.
By Yiwei Chen, Soumyadeep Pal, Yimeng Zhang, Qing Qu, Sijia Liu
arXiv:2604. 01904v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Post-hoc unauthorized-training data detection for large language models (LLMs) typically assumes a query-with-originals regime: rights holders query a target LLM with raw proprietary data and assess whether the model assigns them stronger memorization-based detection signals, e.
By Muxing Li, Zesheng Ye, Sharon Li, Feng Liu
arXiv:2606. 16110v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning has been extensively studied in response to growing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements.
By Dayong Ye, Tianqing Zhu, Ruiding Huang, Xinbo Fu, Jiayang Li, Bo Liu, Huan Huo, Wanlei Zhou
Machine unlearning has been extensively studied in response to growing privacy concerns and regulatory requirements. However, auditing whether unlearning algorithms have truly erased the influence of specific data remains an open challenge.
arXiv:2606. 07996v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pretraining is fundamental to the development of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the opacity of pretraining data complicates model analysis and raises ethical, legal, and fairness concerns.
By Kaixin Lan, Mu You, Tao Fang, Binkai Ou, Lidia S. Chao, Derek F. Wong
The paper examines how supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of large language models can leak personally identifiable information (PII) when the fine-tuning data contains user-provided sensitive details. It introduces COVA, a coverage-aware decoding algorithm that improves targeted PII reconstruction from SFT models, especially when an adversary has limited contextual knowledge about a target. Experiments on medical and legal Q&A datasets show that even small proprietary SFT datasets can lead to significant privacy leakage via PII reconstruction.
By Sae Furukawa, Alina Oprea
arXiv:2605.24614v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large language model (LLM) unlearning has emerged as a crucial post-hoc mechanism for privacy protection and AI safety, yet auditing whether...
By Jaeung Lee, Dohyun Kim, Jaemin Jo
TextCloak is a reinforcement‑learning driven framework that generates unlearnable examples (UEs) to protect textual data from unauthorized fine‑tuning of large language models (LLMs). It transforms clean text into perturbations that preserve meaning and naturalness while degrading the utility of models trained on them. Experiments on six datasets and nine LLMs show that TextCloak consistently impairs unauthorized fine‑tuning and remains robust across different architectures, training settings, and adaptive attacks.
By Chengshuai Zhao, Pingchuan Ma, Dawei Li, Bohan Jiang, Zhiyuan Yu, Zhen Tan, Huan Liu
arXiv:2606. 10481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) can exhibit problematic memorization of individual training examples.
By Nicole Mitchell, Galen Andrew, Arun Ganesh, Brendan McMahan, Peter Kairouz
arXiv:2507. 04219v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current unlearning methods for LLMs optimize on the private information they seek to remove by incorporating it into their fine-tuning data.
By Yan Scholten, Sophie Xhonneux, Leo Schwinn, Stephan G\"unnemann
arXiv:2606. 17110v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models are increasingly trained on proprietary or sensitive data, from private healthcare and financial records to user conversations containing secrets.
By Md Abdullah Al Mamun, Ngoc Phu Doan, Pedram Zaree, Ihsen Alouani, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh