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  1. Cascade: Hierarchical Recoverability Control for Large Language Model Unlearning

    Sep 15, 2026Qingchen Yu, Shiying Duan, Xiaodong Li +5Large Language Model Unlearning

  2. Forgetting Only What Matters: Layer-Selective Unlearning toward Robust LLMs

    Sep 9, 2026Ravi Ranjan, Olivera Kotevska, Agoritsa PolyzouLarge Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  3. Extracting Forgotten Prompts from Targeted Unlearned Models

    Sep 3, 2026Au Ashley Hoi-Ting, Meghdad Kurmanji, William F. Shen +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

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

    Sep 1, 2026Miso Kim, Georu Lee, Seungwon Jeong +1Large Language Model UnlearningForgetting

  5. Where Identity Lives: Localized, Retain-Free Identity Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Kangwook Ko, Jaehyuk Jang, Wonjun Lee +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  6. Partition-Aware Unlearning for Removing Spurious Correlations in Large Vision-Language Models

    Aug 30, 2026Aditi Sarker, Nazreen Shah, Rafi Ibn Sultan +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsLarge Language Model Hallucination

  7. On the Recoverability of Private Information Unlearning in Large Language Models

    Aug 30, 2026Shicheng Hu, Runzhi Tian, Ziqiao Wang +1Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  8. Stress Testing Unlearning Algorithms

    Aug 23, 2026Noam Diamant, Neta Glazer, Ethan FetayaLarge Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  9. LEMUR: Latent Entropy-aware Multimodal Unlearning via Visual-anchored Reasoning Redirection

    Aug 12, 2026Xinhao Zhong, Yuxia Qiao, Junhao Li +3Large Language Model UnlearningMultimodal Reasoning

  10. Measure, Don't Optimize: Forecasting Recovery in LLM Unlearning

    Aug 11, 2026Zirui Song, Huaxing Liu, Xiang Wang +8Large Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  11. PRMU: A Corpus-Free Benchmark for Person-Centric Knowledge Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 11, 2026Huafeng Chen, Yueming Lyu, Ziyuan Chen +4Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  12. A Model Merging Approach for Continual MLLM Unlearning

    Aug 5, 2026Yuhang Wang, Linlin Zhang, Haoxuan Ji +3Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  13. Leak-Resistant Unlearning: A New Benchmark for Evaluating Multi-Hop Reasoning Consistency and Recovery Robustness

    Aug 5, 2026Haoting Qian, Qingjie Zhang, Zhicong Huang +2Large Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  14. Does Forgetting Transfer Across Modalities? A Real-World Benchmark for Cross-Modal Knowledge Unlearning Evaluation

    Aug 4, 2026Chunlin Liu, Junnian Chen, Haitong Jiang +7Large Language Model UnlearningCross-Modal

  15. Trajectory-Guided Forget-Recover Network for Continual LLM Unlearning

    Aug 4, 2026Zezheng Wu, Xinghe Cheng, Qinggang Zhang +4Large Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  16. Exploring and Bridging Knowledge Holes in Unlearned Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Junxiang You, Junkai Chen, Yuhao He +3Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  17. Toward Fine-Grained Forgetting:Attribute Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 2, 2026Junkai Lin, Junkai Chen, Siqi Hou +5Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  18. TextCloak: Thwarting Unauthorized LLM Exploitation via RL-Driven Unlearnable Text

    Jul 30, 2026Chengshuai Zhao, Pingchuan Ma, Dawei Li +4Language Model Evasion AttacksLarge Language Model Unlearning

  19. Crossing the Margin Cliff: Toward Relearn-Robust LLM Unlearning via Margin Calibration

    Jul 30, 2026Xiangyu Yin, Jiaxu Liu, Zhen Chen +1Large Language Model UnlearningLoss Function

  20. Unlearning Under Imbalance: Benchmarking Fairness in Multimodal LLM Unlearning

    Jul 23, 2026Lorenzo Orsingher, Thomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini +2Large Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  21. Stochastic Meta-Unlearning: Bridging Language Backbone and Multimodal Unlearning

    Jul 21, 2026Zijie Liu, Jinhao Duan, Gaowen Liu +2Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Backbones

  22. One Modality to Forget Them All: Enhancing Cross-Modal Unlearning in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 17, 2026Sudharshan Balaji, Yili Ren, Guangjing Wang +2Large Language Model UnlearningCross-Modal

  23. Forget Narrowly, Retain Broadly: Unlearning as an Asymmetric Generalization Problem

    Jul 10, 2026Amit Peleg, Naman Deep Singh, Naama Pearl +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  24. Multimodal Unlearning Across Vision, Language, Video, and Audio: Survey of Methods, Datasets, and Benchmarks

    Jul 8, 2026Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1Large Language Model UnlearningMultimodal Foundation Model

  25. POPS: Recovering Unlearned Multi-Modality Knowledge in MLLMs with Prompt-Optimized Parameter Shaking

    Jul 7, 2026Zhangheng LI, Jianing Zhu, Junyuan Hong +4Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  26. MPSelectTune: Prompt-type Selection for Fine-tuning improves Concept Unlearning in LLMs

    Jul 4, 2026Shubhadip Nag, Srinjoy Das, Agniva Saha +5Large Language Model UnlearningAdversarial Prompts

  27. PPE-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating MLLM Unlearning under Private-Public Entanglement

    Jul 3, 2026Xianren Zhang, Delvin Ce Zhang, Dongwon Lee +1Large Language Model UnlearningHeuristic Privacy Metrics

  28. Auditing Forgetting in Limited Memory Language Models

    Jul 1, 2026Arya Raeesi, Hanna RoedLarge Language Model MemoryLarge Language Model Unlearning

  29. CBD: API-Only LLM Black-Box Unlearning through Controlled Behavioral Divergence

    Jun 26, 2026Zhiqiang Xie, Yijing Lin, Zhipeng Gao +1Large Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  30. Uncertainty-based Debiasing and Unlearning for Decontamination

    Jun 22, 2026Guangzhi Sun, Xiao Zhan, Mark GalesLarge Language Model UnlearningMulti-Dimensional Evaluation

  31. PreUnlearn: Auditing Collateral Knowledge Damage Before Large Language Model Unlearning

    Jun 16, 2026Bo Su, Ankit Shah, Thai LeLarge Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  32. RepSelect: Robust LLM Unlearning via Representation Selectivity

    Jun 15, 2026Filip Sondej, Yushi Yang, Adam MahdiLarge Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Memory

  33. Replay What Matters: Off-Policy Replay for Efficient LLM Reinforcement Unlearning

    Jun 13, 2026Zirui Pang, Chenlong Zhang, Haosheng Tan +3Large Language Model UnlearningOff-Policy Reinforcement Learning

  34. Natively Unlearnable Large Language Models

    Jun 11, 2026Gaurav R. Ghosal, Pratyush Maini, Aditi RaghunathanLarge Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  35. MLUBench: A Benchmark for Lifelong Unlearning Evaluation in MLLMs

    Jun 11, 2026He Li, Haoang Chi, Qizhou Wang +6Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  36. Null-Space Constrained Low-Rank Adaptation for Response-Specified Large Language Model Unlearning

    Jun 9, 2026Bocheng Ju, Jianhua Wang, Chengliang Liu +1Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  37. Routing-Aware Expert Calibration for Machine Unlearning in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Jingyi Xie, Yijun Lin, Yinjiang Xiong +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

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

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

  39. Learning What to Forget: Improving LLM Unlearning via Learned Token-Level Importance

    Jun 4, 2026Gizem Yüce, Giorgos Nikolaou, Nicolas FlammarionLarge Language Model UnlearningAutoregressive Language Models

  40. Backdoor Unlearning Generalization: A Path Toward the Removal of Unknown Triggers in LLMs

    Jun 2, 2026Lisa Bouger, Théo Lasnier, Philippe Loubet Moundi +2Backdoor AttacksLarge Language Model Unlearning

  41. 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

  42. Multilingual Unlearning in LLMs: Transfer, Dynamics, and Reversibility

    Jun 2, 2026Chaoyi Xiang, Olga Ohrimenko, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein +1Large Language Model UnlearningProtein Language Model

  43. SPACE: Source-free Proxy Anchor Concept Erasure for MLLMs

    Jun 1, 2026Zhijing Zhang, Jiaqi Ding, Qianshan Wei +5Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  44. Divergence Decoding: Inference-Time Unlearning via Auxiliary Models

    May 29, 2026Humzah Merchant, Bradford LevyLarge Language Model UnlearningLLM Inference Efficiency

  45. De-attribute to Forget for LLM Unlearning

    May 29, 2026Xinyang Lu, Jiabao Pan, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim +3Large Language Model UnlearningLanguage Model Evasion Attacks

  46. ICCU: In-Context Continual Unlearning via Pattern-Induced Refusal Rules

    May 26, 2026Ruihao Pan, Suhang WangLarge Language Model UnlearningIn-Context Learning

  47. On the Hidden Costs of Counterfactual Knowledge Training in LLM Unlearning

    May 26, 2026Xiaotian Ye, Xiaohan Wang, Mengqi Zhang +1Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Models Fail

  48. On the Robustness of Machine Unlearning for Vision-Language Models

    May 26, 2026Yujie Lin, Kaidi Jia, Jiayao Ma +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  49. Visual-Noise Guided In-Context Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Model Unlearning

    May 26, 2026Junkai Chen, Yuhao He, Junxiang You +3Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  50. Model Unlearning Objectives Vary for Distinct Language Functions

    May 26, 2026Berk Atil, Vipul Gupta, Rebecca J. PassonneauLarge Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Safety

  51. Erased but Exploitable: Black-box Embedding-Aware Prompting Against Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

    May 25, 2026Arian Komaei Koma, Seyed Amir Kasaei, AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh +1Text-To-Image Diffusion ModelsAdversarial Prompts

  52. Measuring the Depth of LLM Unlearning via Activation Patching

    May 23, 2026Jaeung Lee, Dohyun Kim, Jaemin JoLarge Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  53. Calibration vs Decision Making: Revisiting the Reliability Paradox in Unlearned Language Models

    May 20, 2026Divyaksh Shukla, Ashutosh ModiLarge Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Reliability

  54. CATA: Continual Machine Unlearning via Conflict-Averse Task Arithmetic

    May 18, 2026Shen Lin, Junhao Dong, Rongjie Chen +3Large Language Model UnlearningAutomation and Machines

  55. Machine Unlearning for Masked Diffusion Language Models

    May 18, 2026Georu Lee, Seungwon Jeong, Hoki Kim +2Masked Diffusion Language ModelsDiffusion Language Models

  56. 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

  57. ZeroUnlearn: Few-Shot Knowledge Unlearning in Large Language Models

    May 16, 2026Yujie Lin, Chengyi Yang, Zhishang Xiang +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  58. ASRU: Activation Steering Meets Reinforcement Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models

    May 15, 2026Jiahui Guang, Haiyan Wang, Yingjie Zhu +4Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Multimodal Models

  59. Knowledge Beyond Language: Bridging the Gap in Multilingual Machine Unlearning Evaluation

    May 14, 2026Kyomin Hwang, Hyeonjin Kim, Sangyeon Cho +1Large Language Model UnlearningLegal Natural Language Processing Benchmarks

  60. ICED: Concept-level Machine Unlearning via Interpretable Concept Decomposition

    May 14, 2026Shen Lin, Jing Lin, Junhao Dong +2Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning