arXiv AI

SPACE: Source-free Proxy Anchor Concept Erasure for MLLMs

arXiv:2606. 09868v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) face growing privacy risks and regulatory constraints, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a crucial solution for removing sensitive data while preserving model performance.

arXiv AI
Aug 5

Does Forgetting Transfer Across Modalities? A Real-World Benchmark for Cross-Modal Knowledge Unlearning Evaluation

arXiv:2608. 03791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs), like Large Language Models (LLMs), may memorize sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful knowledge from their pretraining corpora.

By Chunlin Liu, Junnian Chen, Haitong Jiang, Jianyu Zhao, Yingsen Pang, Jingchen Li, Jiabiao He, Youming Lu, Jinhe Bi, Yuntao Du
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Visual-Noise Guided In-Context Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Model Unlearning

arXiv:2606. 00105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress on vision-language tasks, but they may also memorize and expose sensitive or restricted knowledge, raising concerns about privacy and broader safety risks.

By Junkai Chen, Yuhao He, Junxiang You, Ruiqi Liu, Chenyu Wang, Shu Wu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 9

POPS: Recovering Unlearned Multi-Modality Knowledge in MLLMs with Prompt-Optimized Parameter Shaking

arXiv:2607. 06649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on cross-modal tasks by jointly training on large-scale textual and visual data, where privacy-sensitive examples could be unintentionally encoded, raising concerns about privacy or copyright violation.

By Zhangheng LI, Jianing Zhu, Junyuan Hong, Sungmin Eum, Shuowen Hu, Suya You, Zhangyang Wang