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

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

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Confess What You Know: Forget-Set Misalignment with Model Knowledge in LLM Unlearning

The paper identifies a problem in large language model (LLM) unlearning called forget‑set misalignment, where the set of data to be forgotten does not match what the model has actually memorized. Two failure modes are described: Under Unlearning, where memorized information is omitted from the forget set, and Out‑of‑Knowledge Unlearning, where the algorithm attempts to forget knowledge the model never learned, harming performance. The authors propose CONfs, a data‑blind framework that constructs model‑aligned forget sets by eliciting the model’s memorized knowledge, and demonstrate that it achieves near‑gold standard forgetting while preserving utility better than other data‑blind methods.

By Miso Kim, Georu Lee, Seungwon Jeong, Woojin Lee