REDaCT: Collapse-Free Unlearning in Large Reasoning Models

The paper introduces REDaCT, an inference-time unlearning framework for large reasoning models that removes forget-set information from both the reasoning trace and the final answer without causing reasoning collapse. REDaCT uses a binary leak detector to spot sentences that leak forget-set data and an embedding optimization module that injects a corrective embedding at the first detected leak, steering subsequent reasoning toward non-leaking sentences. Experiments demonstrate that REDaCT preserves coherent chain-of-thought reasoning, outperforms existing unlearning methods, and achieves perfect answer forgetting with near-perfect chain-of-thought forgetting.

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