arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

Class Machine Unlearning for Complex Data via Concepts Inference and Data Poisoning

The paper introduces a concept-guided poisoning unlearning framework that explicitly identifies semantic concepts most strongly linked to a target class or knowledge. For image classification, it uses a Post-hoc Concept Bottleneck Model to locate relevant image regions and creates poisoned samples; for large language models, it aggregates Integrated Gradients over multiple question responses to mask important content and generate poisoned training targets. Experiments across several datasets demonstrate effective unlearning while largely preserving model utility.

By Wenhan Chang, Tianqing Zhu, Heng Xu, Wenjian Liu, Wanlei Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 8

Continual Learning without Continual Training

arXiv:2610.10379v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Continual learning requires models to adapt to new domains and new classes while retaining prior knowledge. Many existing methods rely on continued opt...

By Nikita Narayanan, Ritham Majumdarr, Sonali Parbhoo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 31

Continual Learning with Vision-Language Models via Semantic-Geometry Preservation

arXiv:2603. 12055v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continual learning of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs) is prone to catastrophic forgetting, yet current approaches adapt to new tasks without explicitly preserving the cross-modal semantic geometry inherited from pretraining and previous stages, allowing new-task supervision to induce geometric distortion.

By Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Runtong Zhang, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li