Gradient Concentration, Not Weight Saliency, Explains Representation-Level Class Unlearning
arXiv:2607. 21353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data while preserving model utility.
arXiv:2608. 15548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning (MU) aims to remove the influence of specific training data while preserving model utility.
arXiv:2607. 21353v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data while preserving model utility.
Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data while preserving model utility. Many state-of-the-art approaches pursue this goal by restricting the forgetting update to a subset of parameters selected through gradient-based saliency.
arXiv:2604. 05634v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Machine unlearning (MU) has become a critical technique for GenAI models' safe and compliant operation.
arXiv:2602. 00722v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Parameter-efficient continual learning aims to adapt pre-trained models to sequential tasks without forgetting previously acquired knowledge.
arXiv:2608. 12332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, low-rank adaptation (LoRA) has emerged as a significant paradigm that freezes pre-trained weights and introduces small, learnable adapters instead of fine-tuning the full set of parameters.
arXiv:2605. 20282v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine unlearning in Vertical Federated Learning (VFL) has attracted growing interest, yet existing methods certify forgetting solely using output-level metrics.
arXiv:2606. 03808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose PURGE, a machine unlearning algorithm built on a simple but an under-exploited observation: continual learning (CL) and machine unlearning (MU) which are fundamentally dual problems.
arXiv:2511. 20196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can inadvertently memorize privacy-sensitive information during training.
We argue that forgetting is not confined to continual learning but is a general optimization phenomenon: during standard training, dominant mini-batch gradients suppress rare but useful update directions, causing short-term forgetting at every step. When such knowledge is never revisited, these losses compound into long-term forgetting-the classical failure mode of continual learning.
arXiv:2607. 14466v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Noise injection is a well-known technique in stochastic optimization.
arXiv:2507. 07754v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Machine unlearning is usually evaluated by what the classifier outputs: forget-set accuracy, confidence, membership-inference scores.
arXiv:2607. 07907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associations that originate from their training data.