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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. K-Bench: A Benchmark for LLM Unlearning in Agentic Deployments

    Sep 11, 2026Guangsheng Yu, Yanna Jiang, Qin Wang +2Large Language Model UnlearningAgent Framework

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

    Sep 9, 2026Ravi Ranjan, Olivera Kotevska, Agoritsa PolyzouLarge Language Model UnlearningSeveral Approximate Unlearning Strategies

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

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

  6. Stress Testing Unlearning Algorithms

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

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

    Aug 11, 2026Zirui Song, Huaxing Liu, Xiang Wang +8Large Language Model UnlearningData Leakage

  8. 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 UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  9. A Model Merging Approach for Continual MLLM Unlearning

    Aug 5, 2026Yuhang Wang, Linlin Zhang, Haoxuan Ji +3Large Language Model UnlearningMachine Unlearning

  10. 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

  11. 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 Learning

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

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

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

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

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

    Aug 2, 2026Junkai Lin, Junkai Chen, Siqi Hou +5Large Language Model UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  15. 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

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

    Jul 30, 2026Xiangyu Yin, Jiaxu Liu, Zhen Chen +1Large Language Model UnlearningBias Learning

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

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

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

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

  19. 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 Learning

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

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

  21. 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 UnlearningCross-Modal Learning

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

    Jul 7, 2026Zhangheng LI, Jianing Zhu, Junyuan Hong +4Large Language Model UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

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

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

  24. Auditing Forgetting in Limited Memory Language Models

    Jul 1, 2026Arya Raeesi, Hanna RoedLarge Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Memory

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

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

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

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

  27. RepSelect: Robust LLM Unlearning via Representation Selectivity

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

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

    Jun 13, 2026Zirui Pang, Chenlong Zhang, Haosheng Tan +3Large Language Model UnlearningReinforcement Learning Post-Training

  29. Natively Unlearnable Large Language Models

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

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

    Jun 11, 2026He Li, Haoang Chi, Qizhou Wang +6Large Language Model UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

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

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

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

    Jun 9, 2026Jingyi Xie, Yijun Lin, Yinjiang Xiong +2Mixture-Of-Expert Language ModelsLarge Language Model Unlearning

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

    Jun 5, 2026Ziheng Chen, Jiali Cheng, Zezhong Fan +4Large-Scale Recommendation SystemsLarge Language Model Unlearning

  34. 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

  35. 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

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

    Jun 2, 2026Clara Haya Suslik, Or Shafran, Mor GevaConcept ErasureGlobal Embeddings

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

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

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

    Jun 1, 2026Zhijing Zhang, Jiaqi Ding, Qianshan Wei +5Large Language Model UnlearningSeveral Approximate Unlearning Strategies

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

    May 29, 2026Humzah Merchant, Bradford LevyLarge Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  40. De-attribute to Forget for LLM Unlearning

    May 29, 2026Xinyang Lu, Jiabao Pan, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim +3Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Post-Training

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

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

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

    May 26, 2026Xiaotian Ye, Xiaohan Wang, Mengqi Zhang +1Large Language Model UnlearningCounterfactual Learning

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

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

  44. Model Unlearning Objectives Vary for Distinct Language Functions

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

  45. Measuring the Depth of LLM Unlearning via Activation Patching

    May 23, 2026Jaeung Lee, Dohyun Kim, Jaemin JoLarge Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

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

    May 20, 2026Divyaksh Shukla, Ashutosh ModiLarge Language Model UnlearningUnlearning Aims

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

    May 18, 2026Shen Lin, Junhao Dong, Rongjie Chen +3Large Language Model UnlearningCharacter Fidelity

  48. Machine Unlearning for Masked Diffusion Language Models

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

  49. The Unlearnability Phenomenon in RLVR for Language Models

    May 16, 2026Yulin Chen, He He, Chen ZhaoReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Unlearning

  50. 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

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

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

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

    May 15, 2026Jiahui Guang, Haiyan Wang, Yingjie Zhu +4Large Language Model UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  53. 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

  54. Unlearners Can Lie: Evaluating and Improving Honesty in LLM Unlearning

    May 9, 2026Renjie Gu, Jiazhen Du, Yihua Zhang +1Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Reliability

  55. SHRED: Retain-Set-Free Unlearning via Self-Distillation with Logit Demotion

    May 8, 2026Zizhao Hu, Ameya Godbole, Johnny Tian-Zheng Wei +3Large Language Model UnlearningLogit Lens

  56. ICU-Bench:Benchmarking Continual Unlearning in Multimodal Large Language Models

    May 7, 2026Yuhang Wang, Wenjie Mei, Junkai Zhang +3Large Language Model UnlearningRobust Multimodal Learning

  57. Metric Unreliability in Multimodal Machine Unlearning: A Systematic Analysis and Principled Unified Score

    May 4, 2026Abdullah Ahmad Khan, Hamid Laga, Ferdous SohelLarge Language Model UnlearningUnimodal Representations

  58. EASE: Federated Multimodal Unlearning via Entanglement-Aware Anchor Closure

    May 1, 2026Zihao Ding, Beining Wu, Jun HuangLarge Language Model UnlearningCross-Modal Learning

  59. UNSEEN: A Cross-Stack LLM Unlearning Defense against AR-LLM Social Engineering Attacks

    Apr 25, 2026Tianlong Yu, Yang Yang, Xiao Luo +6Language Model Evasion AttacksLarge Language Model Unlearning

  60. CAP: Controllable Alignment Prompting for Unlearning in LLMs

    Apr 23, 2026Zhaokun Wang, Jinyu Guo, Jingwen Pu +7Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Alignment