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  1. MUtE: A Dual Framework for Concept Erasure and Counterfactual Interventions

    Sep 11, 2026Antoine SaillenfestConcept ErasureFairness-Aware Learning

  2. EraseSAE: Surgical Concept Erasure in Text-to-Video Diffusion Models via Sparse Autoencoders

    Sep 3, 2026Xinghao Wang, Dong Li, Wei Yu +5Concept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  3. Gaussian Core LoRA: Distribution-Aware Dynamic Adaptation for Broad Concept Erasure

    Sep 1, 2026Qinghui Gong, Xunlei Chen, Yu-Xuan Zhang +2Concept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  4. PredErase: Training-Free Object-and-Effect Removal with Predictive Latent Guidance

    Sep 1, 2026Waikit Xiu, Qiang Lu, Junbiao Chen +1Diffusion-Based Object Removal ModelsConcept Erasure

  5. Continual Test-Time Adaptation via Entropy Sensitivity-Guidance in Strict Online Setting

    Aug 30, 2026Chandler Timm C. Doloriel, Yunbei Zhang, Muhammad Salman Siddiqui +4Test-Time AdaptationAdversarial Corruption

  6. MapRoute++: Surrogate-Guided Semantic Routing for Visual Concept Unlearning

    Aug 13, 2026Ashok Urlana, L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Vivek Hruday Kavuri +1Semantic MappingConcept Erasure

  7. Semantic Steering for Controllable Generation: Tuning-Free Concept Erasure in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers

    Aug 13, 2026Qiao Li, Xiaomeng Fu, Yuanshu Zhao +3Diffusion TransformersConcept Erasure

  8. Erase but Preserve: Controllable Removal of Copyrighted Animation Characters via Optimized Semantic Anchors

    Aug 13, 2026Qiao Li, Xiaomeng Fu, Wangjia Yu +4AnimationText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  9. Reading the Gate, Not the Interference: Output-Side Interference Measurement Does Not Track Merge Collapse

    Aug 12, 2026Chencheng ZhuCross-Model ConsistencyTask-Level

  10. PEAK: Precise and Persistent Concept Erasure via k-Sparse Autoencoders

    Aug 11, 2026Man Jiang, Ouxiang Li, Weibao Xue +4Concept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  11. Iterative Erasure Count Is Not an Affine-Invariant Concept Dimension

    Aug 11, 2026Tingan Jin, Shuhang Dong, Haosong Li +1Intrinsic DimensionalityConcept Erasure

  12. Did the Grid Erase the Event? EndoClock for Auditing Medical World-Model Pipelines

    Aug 10, 2026Yarin Udi, Tom Sharon-Shahak, Roee Masad +1ClocksEvent

  13. OBLIVION: Workflow-Level Operational Skill Unlearning for Deployed Agents

    Aug 8, 2026Zhengyang Shan, Xu Qian, Jiayun Xin +3Agent Skill LibrariesUnlearning Aims

  14. FlowErase-OPD: Multi-Concept Erasure via Anchored On-Policy Distillation in Flow Matching Models

    Aug 7, 2026Yi Sun, Yimin Zhou, Xinhao Zhong +3Concept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  15. SCOPE: Entanglement Frontier Escape for Source-Free Class Unlearning

    Aug 3, 2026Junhao Cai, Dohun Kim, Sung Il Choi +4Machine UnlearningConcept Erasure

  16. QR-Erase: Efficient Subspace-Based Machine Unlearning with Layer Localization

    Aug 2, 2026Tyler Lizzo, Larry HeckMachine UnlearningSingular Value Decomposition

  17. Subtract, Transport, or Replay? Auditable Deletion from Language-Model Memory

    Jul 30, 2026Vishwajith RameshLarge Language Model MemoryConversational Memory

  18. To Erase, or Not to Erase: Robust Training-Free Concept Erasure with Preservation aware Adaptive Ranked Subspace Expansion

    Jul 26, 2026Shaswati Saha, Rajasekhar Anguluri, Manas GaurConcept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  19. Mark, Don't Erase: Token Inoculation for Dual-Use Knowledge in LLMs

    Jul 21, 2026Seunghyun Lee, Dongyoon Han, Sangdoo YunRefusalsData Poisoning

  20. Stress Testing Concept Erasure with Large Language Model Agents

    Jul 20, 2026Yuyang Xue, Feng Chen, Zhihua Liu +4Concept ErasureAdversarial Evaluation

  21. AEC-DS: Adaptive Erasure Coding with PDP-Triggered Reputation and QoS-Aware Migration for Decentralized Storage

    Jul 20, 2026Shuaiwen Li, Weihang Yu, Ke Wang +1DecentralizationAlgorithm Auditing

  22. Introspective Attention Modulation for Safe Text-to-Image Generation

    Jul 16, 2026Basim Azam, Hossein Rahmani, Naveed AkhtarText-To-Image Diffusion ModelsText-To-Image

  23. Uni-AdaVD: Universal Concept Erasure for Visual Generation via Orthogonal Value Decomposition

    Jul 16, 2026Qifan Zhou, Yuan Wang, Yanbin Hao +4Visual GenerationConcept Erasure

  24. TRACE: A Two-Channel Robust Attribution Watermark via Complementary Embeddings for LLM-Agent Trajectories

    Jul 9, 2026Zheng Gao, Xiaoyu Li, Xiaoyan Feng +5TracesWatermarks

  25. AutoAnchor: Stable Diffusion Unlearning Using Cross-Attention as a Manifold Surrogate

    Jul 9, 2026Siyuan Wen, Jiahao Zeng, Ningning DingText-To-Image Diffusion ModelsMachine Unlearning

  26. TILDE: TILt-based Distributional Erasure for Concept Unlearning

    Jul 7, 2026Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida +2Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsConcept Erasure

  27. Erasing Without Collateral Damage: Precise Concept Removal in Diffusion Models

    Jul 6, 2026Parth Upman, Nishita Jain, Shreyank N GowdaConcept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  28. MANCE: Manifold Aware Concept Erasure

    Jul 4, 2026Matan Avitan, Yoav Goldberg, Yanai ElazarConcept ErasureManifolds

  29. LACUNA: A Testbed for Evaluating Localization Precision for LLM Unlearning

    Jul 2, 2026Matteo Boglioni, Thibault Rousset, Siva Reddy +2Machine UnlearningLanguage Model Evasion Attacks

  30. A Mechanistic View of Authority Hierarchy in LLM Sycophancy

    Jul 1, 2026Emil Joswin, Srujananjali Medicherla, Priyanka Mary MammenSycophancyAuthority

  31. Look But Don't Touch with Sparse Autoencoders for Unlearning in Diffusion Models

    Jun 30, 2026Enrico Cassano, Riccardo Renzulli, Rayyan Ahmed +2Diffusion ModelsSparse Autoencoders

  32. ScaleErasure: Inference-Time Minimal Intervention for Precise Concept Erasure in Next-Scale Autoregressive Image Generation

    Jun 28, 2026Cong Wang, Haiyu Wu, Zhiwei Jiang +4Autoregressive Image GenerationConcept Erasure

  33. Obliviate: Erasing Concepts from Autoregressive Image Generation Models

    Jun 26, 2026Hossein Shakibania, Jonas Henry Grebe, Tobias Braun +4Autoregressive Image GenerationConcept Erasure

  34. CARVE: Content-Aware Recurrent with Value Efficiency for Chunk-Parallel Linear Attention

    Jun 25, 2026Sayak DuttaRecurrent ModelCausal Attention

  35. Erase-then-Delta Attention: Decoupling Erase and Write Addresses in Delta-Rule Linear Attention

    Jun 25, 2026Xiao Li, Chengruidong Zhang, Hao Luo +15Recurrent ModelConcept Erasure

  36. Co-occurring associated retained concepts in Diffusion Unlearning

    Jun 23, 2026Miso Kim, Georu Lee, Yunji Kim +3Concept ErasureCo-Occurrence

  37. Exposing the Illusion of Erasure in Knowledge Editing for LLMs

    Jun 22, 2026Advik Raj Basani, Anshuman ChhabraMultimodal Knowledge EditingConcept Erasure

  38. Ghost Vectors: Soft-Deleted Embeddings Remain Reconstructible in HNSW Vector Databases

    Jun 16, 2026Chandranil Chakraborttii, Jackeline García Alvarado, Sitora Abdulofizova +1Vector DatabaseHievi-Rag

  39. KVEraser: Learning to Steer KV Cache for Efficient Localized Context Erasing

    Jun 15, 2026Mufei Li, Shikun Liu, Dongqi Fu +5Kv-Cache SteeringKey-Value Cache

  40. Post-Hoc Merging is Not Enough: Many-Shot Model Merging with Loss-Gap Balancing

    Jun 15, 2026Kyungjin Im, Miru Kim, Chanin Eom +1Continual Model MergingModel Merging

  41. SACE: Concept Erasure at the Semantic Singularity in Visual Autoregressive Models

    Jun 14, 2026Siya Yang, Nanxiang Jiang, Zhaoxin Fan +1Visual Autoregressive ModelsConcept Erasure

  42. On Defining Erasure Harms for NLP

    Jun 14, 2026Yu Lu Liu, Arnav Goel, Jackie Chi Kit Cheung +3Concept ErasureHarms

  43. Debiasing Without Protected Attributes: Latent Concept Erasure from Textual Profiles

    Jun 10, 2026Shun Shao, Zheng Zhao, Anna Korhonen +2AttributeNatural Language Processing

  44. TRACER: Token ReAssignment for Concept ERasure in Generative Recommendation

    Jun 5, 2026Ziheng Chen, Jiali Cheng, Zezhong Fan +4Recommendation ArchitectureLarge Language Model Unlearning

  45. Catastrophic Forgetting as Accessibility Collapse: A Three-Level Framework for Knowledge Persistence in Continual Learning

    Jun 4, 2026Ayushman Trivedi, Bhavika MelwaniCatastrophic ForgettingContinual Learning

  46. The Generator-Eraser Paradox: Community Guidelines for Responsible LLM-Assisted Dialect Resource Creation

    Jun 4, 2026Wajdi ZaghouaniDialectsLinguistics

  47. Short paper: Models in the dark -- Rectification and erasure under GDPR in ML supply chains

    Jun 4, 2026Henrik Graßhoff, Malte Hansen, Meiko Jensen +1Machine LearningSoftware Supply Chains

  48. PURGE: Projected Unlearning via Retain-Guided Erasure

    Jun 2, 2026Vedant Jawandhia, Daksh Ahuja, Ghufran Alam Siddiqui +3Machine UnlearningConcept Erasure

  49. Don't Forget Your Embeddings: Robust Knowledge Erasure via Precise Editing of Embeddings

    Jun 2, 2026Clara Haya Suslik, Or Shafran, Mor GevaConcept ErasureLarge Language Model Unlearning

  50. Forgetting is Not Erasure: Recovering Latent Knowledge via Transport Keys

    Jun 1, 2026Archie ChaudhuryCatastrophic ForgettingForgetting

  51. Geometric Erasure by Contrastive Velocity Matching in Rectified Flows

    May 29, 2026Jonas Henry Grebe, Tobias Braun, Anna Rohrbach +1Concept ErasureRectified Flow

  52. Orthogonal Concept Erasure for Diffusion Models

    May 27, 2026Yuhao Sun, Lingyun Yu, Haoxiang Xu +3Concept ErasureDiffusion Models

  53. Where Concept Erasure Should Occur: Concept-Layer Alignment in Text-to-Video Diffusion Models

    May 25, 2026Yiwei Xie, Ping Liu, Zheng ZhangVideo Diffusion ModelsConcept Erasure

  54. Mosaic: Compositional Multi-Concept Erasure via Vector Field Blending

    May 25, 2026Junseok Ko, Jungwoo Kim, Jong-Seok LeeConcept ErasureText-To-Image

  55. Gated DeltaNet-2: Decoupling Erase and Write in Linear Attention

    May 21, 2026Ali Hatamizadeh, Yejin Choi, Jan KautzEfficient Long-Context InferenceLarge Language Model Decoding

  56. FlowErase-RL: Rethinking Concept Erasure as Reward Optimization in Flow Matching Models

    May 19, 2026Yi Sun, Zhiqi Zhang, Xinhao Zhong +5Concept ErasureClover

  57. Whispers in the Noise: Surrogate-Guided Concept Awakening via a Multi-Agent Framework

    May 18, 2026Mengyu Sun, Ziyuan Yang, Zunlong Zhou +3Concept ErasureText-To-Image Diffusion Models

  58. Distinguishable Deletion: Unifying Knowledge Erasure and Refusal for Large Language Model Unlearning

    May 16, 2026Puning Yang, Junchi Yu, Qizhou Wang +3Large Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  59. BARRIER: Bounded Activation Regions for Robust Information Erasure

    May 15, 2026Jan Miksa, Patryk Krukowski, Przemysław Spurek +2Machine UnlearningConcept Erasure

  60. Forgetting That Sticks: Quantization-Permanent Unlearning via Circuit Attribution

    May 14, 2026Saisab Sadhu, Pratinav Seth, Vinay Kumar SankarapuMachine UnlearningConcept Erasure