The paper introduces GONE, a benchmark for evaluating knowledge unlearning in large language models using structured knowledge graphs, and presents Neighborhood-Expanded Distribution Shaping (NEDS), a framework that leverages graph connectivity to separate forgotten facts from their semantic neighborhood. GONE disentangles direct fact removal, reasoning-based leakage, and catastrophic forgetting, while NEDS achieves high unlearning efficacy and locality on LLaMA-3-8B and Mistral-7B. The dataset is publicly available on Hugging Face.
By Chahana Dahal, Ashutosh Balasubramaniam, Zuobin Xiong
The paper introduces EXYGEN, a framework that enables conversational access to large knowledge graphs by combining VoID descriptions, ShEx schemas, retrieved triples, and example question‑query pairs in a retrieval‑augmented generation pipeline. On the SciQA benchmark, this approach achieves an exact‑match score of 0.419 without fine‑tuning any large language model, and shows that larger general‑purpose LLMs can outperform smaller code‑specialized ones when provided sufficient context. To scale metadata generation for very large KGs, the authors propose a predicate‑coverage‑aware parallel graph sampling strategy that preserves structural diversity, reduces runtime by over 80× on OpenCitations Meta and GESIS, and is the only tractable method for obtaining complete metadata on ORKG.
By Harshdeep Singh, Yurui Zhu, Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello
RePro is a web‑recycling technique that trains a small language model (as little as 1 B parameters) with reinforcement learning to produce high‑quality, faithful rephrasings of pretraining data. The method uses one quality reward and three faithfulness rewards to preserve core semantics and structure while converting organic data into better training examples. Experiments show that RePro boosts downstream accuracy by 3.7–14.5 % over organic‑only baselines and improves data efficiency 2–3×, outperforming prior prompting‑based recycling approaches.
By Zichun Yu, Chenyan Xiong
CORTEX is a novel framework that transforms web‑scale corpus construction from flat document filtering into structured knowledge organization using an Ontological Corpus Graph (OCG). The OCG comprises a quality‑refined content layer, a lightweight ontology layer that evolves via LLMs, and a cross‑domain alignment layer that supports arbitrary taxonomic resolution. Experiments demonstrate CORTEX’s effectiveness, and the authors release a 24.14 B‑token refined corpus, its OCG, and a cross‑domain benchmark called CortexBench for evaluating large language models.
By Chengtao Gan, Xiaoke Guo, Yushan Zhu, Zhaoyan Gong, Zhiqiang Liu, Songze Li, Huajun Chen, Wen Zhang
arXiv:2606. 11499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The performance of modern language models depends critically on pretraining data composition.
By Vedant Badoni, Danqi Chen, Xinyi Wang
arXiv:2607. 09236v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning in LLMs is the targeted removal of specific knowledge while preserving all other capabilities, critical for privacy and safety.
By Amit Peleg, Naman Deep Singh, Naama Pearl, Bibhabasu Mohapatra, Matthias Hein