arXiv AI By Jiangwei Chen, Xinyuan Niu, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim, Zhengyuan Liu, Nancy F. Chen, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

How Hard Can It Be? Hardness-Aware Multi-Objective Unlearning

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arXiv:2606. 02119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific forget training data due to privacy, copyright or bias concerns while maintaining the model performance on the remaining retain data.

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Sep 2

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