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  1. Unlearning Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs with Contrastive Forget Sets

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Tang, Rajiv KhannaLarge Language Model UnlearningDeception

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  2. Unmerge: Efficient Machine Unlearning via Task Arithmetic

    Sep 30, 2026Haoran Tang, Andrew Tan, Rajiv KhannaMachine UnlearningRetraining

    Department of Computer Science Purdue University

  3. Bounding Retraining Equivalence and the Deletion Floor in Materials Machine Unlearning

    Sep 28, 2026Can Polat, Mustafa Kurban, Erchin Serpedin +1Machine UnlearningDeletion

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University at Qatar, Doha, Qatar · Department of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey +1

  4. Evaluating Machine Unlearning in ASR

    Sep 28, 2026Diogo Dinis, Francisco Teixeira, Bhiksha Raj +2Machine UnlearningAutomatic Speech Recognition

    INESC-ID · Instituto Superior T´ecnico, Universidade de Lisboa · LTI, Carnegie Mellon University

  5. Machine Unlearning for Gibbs Supervised Learning Algorithms

    Sep 24, 2026Yaiza Bermudez, Samir M. Perlaza, Iñaki EsnaolaGibbsExact Unlearning

    Centre Inria d’Universit´e Cˆote d’Azur, INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France. · Laboratoire GAATI, Universit´e de la Polyn´esie franc¸aise, Fa‘a‘¯a, French Polynesia. · ECE Dept. Princeton University, Princeton, 08544 NJ, USA. +1

  6. GRIN+: Towards Fast Yet Effective Machine Unlearning for Imbalanced Medical Data

    Sep 14, 2026Minghui Huang, Junxiao WangMachine UnlearningImbalanced Classification

    Guangzhou University, China

  7. Correlation-Guided Fast Machine Unlearning via Hessian Analysis

    Sep 14, 2026Ayushi Thakur, Ruchir Gupta, Amit Kumar Jaiswal +1Machine UnlearningPrivacy-Preserving Machine Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University) Varanasi, India · Halmstad University, Sweden

  8. Do Influence-Derived Data Perturbations Enable Machine Unlearning? A Controlled Study of Three Plausible Roles

    Sep 14, 2026Chenkai Wu, Chrispine Kambimbi, Qinyang Zeng +1Machine UnlearningDeletion

    Monash University · LibrAI · Tongji University +1

  9. Forget or Fine-tune? A Comparative Study of Machine Unlearning Strategies for Noisy Label Correction

    Aug 30, 2026João L. P. Santana, Filipe R. CordeiroNoisy LabelsMachine Unlearning

    Department of Computing Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil

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

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

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · 3Cloudspace Technology

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

    Aug 2, 2026Tyler Lizzo, Larry HeckMachine UnlearningSubspace

    Georgia Institute of Technology

  12. Generated Images Are Easier to Forget: A Machine Unlearning Perspective for Synthetic Image Detection

    Aug 1, 2026Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Tongliang Liu +3Synthetic Image DetectionUnsupervised Detection

    University of Science and Technology of China · Hong Kong Baptist University · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +1

  13. Similarity-Aware Machine Unlearning

    Jul 31, 2026Madhavan Citalamangalam Kumaran, Midhun Parakkal Unni, Vicky Kouni +1Machine UnlearningRetraining

    Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, UK · Centre for Machine Intelligence, University of Sheffield, UK · School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK +1

  14. Understanding Machine Unlearning Through the Lens of Mode Connectivity

    Jul 27, 2026Jiali Cheng, Hadi AmiriMachine UnlearningLearnability

    University of Massachusetts Lowell

  15. DECAF: De-Clustering for Adaptive Representational Unlearning

    Jul 27, 2026Anjie Le, Can Peng, Hongcheng Guo +1Machine UnlearningUnsupervised

    Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford, UK · Fudan University.

  16. Gradient Concentration, Not Weight Saliency, Explains Representation-Level Class Unlearning

    Jul 23, 2026Billel Habbati, Alessio Merlo, Luca Verderame +1Machine UnlearningCatastrophic Forgetting

    DIBRIS – Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering, University of Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy · Centre for Defense Higher Studies (CASD), Palazzo Salviati, Piazza della Rovere 83, 00165 Roma, Italy

  17. On Optimization Complexity of Second-Order Certified Unlearning

    Jul 22, 2026Nikita Doikov, Anastasia KoloskovaMachine Unlearning

    Cornell University, Ithaca, USA · University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  18. Signal-Guided Optimization for Machine Unlearning

    Jul 13, 2026Xujia Li, Dan Li, Jian Lou +1Machine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    University of Science and Technology of China · Sun Yat-sen University

  19. Unraveling Machine Behavior by Multi-Level Bias Analysis and Detection: Methodology and Application to Computer Vision

    Jul 8, 2026Ignacio Serna, Aythami Morales, Julian FierrezMnistComputer Vision

    Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany · BiometricsAI, UAM, Madrid, Spain · Department of Mathematics, ULPGC, Spain

  20. DFMU: Data-Frugal Machine Unlearning

    Jun 24, 2026Sajith U, Prateek KeserwaniMachine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore, India

  21. Machine Unlearning for the XGBoost Model with Network Intrusion Datasets

    Jun 17, 2026Diana Magalhães, Eva Maia, João Vitorino +1Machine UnlearningXgboost Model

    GECAD, ISEP, Polytechnic of Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal

  22. TrustErase: Auditable Instant Machine Unlearning with Passport-Embedded Representations

    Jun 15, 2026Rutger Hendrix, Leonardo G. Russo, Concetto Spampinato +2Machine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    University of Catania Catania, Italy

  23. To forget is to preserve: Machine Unlearning for 3D medical image segmentation

    Jun 15, 2026Nitesh Kumar Singh, Akhilesh Singh, Arjun AroraMachine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    School of Computer Science UPES, University of Tomorrow Dehradun, India.

  24. Auditing Machine Unlearning: A Systematic Research on Whether Models Truly Forget

    Jun 15, 2026Dayong Ye, Tianqing Zhu, Ruiding Huang +5Machine UnlearningUnlearning Method

  25. Behavioral Audit of Machine Unlearning Has a Privacy Cost

    Jun 12, 2026Liou Tang, James Joshi, Ashish KunduMachine UnlearningModel Auditing

    University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Cisco Research, San Jose, CA, USA

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

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

    Renmin University of China · Lightstandard · Zhejiang University +1

  27. PURGE: Projected Unlearning via Retain-Guided Erasure

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

    1BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus, India

  28. How Hard Can It Be? Hardness-Aware Multi-Objective Unlearning

    Jun 1, 2026Jiangwei Chen, Xinyuan Niu, Rachael Hwee Ling Sim +3Machine UnlearningCatastrophic Forgetting

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore · Institute for Infocomm Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore · Centre for Frontier AI Research, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore

  29. Near-Optimal Machine Unlearning Utility for Smooth Strongly Convex Losses

    Jun 1, 2026Matthew Regehr, Gautam Kamath, Andrew LowyMachine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    University of Waterloo · University of Waterloo and Vector Institute · CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

  30. Multi-Objective Reference-Aligned Machine Unlearning

    May 29, 2026Rasa Khosrowshahli, Stephen Asobiela, Beatrice Ombuki-Berman +1Machine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    Department of Computer Science, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada · Yousef Haj-Ahmad Department of Engineering, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, Canada

  31. SUPREME: A Multi-GPU Framework for Reproducible Image Unlearning Method Evaluation

    May 29, 2026Petros Andreou, Jamie Lanyon, Axel Finke +1Machine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    Department of Computer Science, School of Science, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK · School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK

  32. Forgetting Has Neighbors: Localized Collateral Forgetting in Machine Unlearning

    May 29, 2026Polina Dolgova, Sebastian U. StichMachine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security · Universität des Saarlandes · Saarbrücken, Germany

  33. RULER: Representation-Level Verification of Machine Unlearning

    May 26, 2026Georgina Cosma, Axel FinkeMachine UnlearningRepresentation-Level Misalignment

    Department of Computer Science, Loughborough University, UK · School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Newcastle University, UK

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

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

    1Xiamen University

  35. DualOptim+: Bridging Shared and Decoupled Optimizer States for Better Machine Unlearning in Large Language Models

    May 20, 2026Xuyang Zhong, Qizhang Li, Yiwen Guo +1Machine UnlearningOptimization Modeling

    Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong · Independent Researcher.

  36. Approximate Machine Unlearning through Manifold Representation Forgetting Guided by Self Mode Connectivity

    May 20, 2026Weiqi Wang, Zhiyi Tian, Chenhan Zhang +2Machine UnlearningRepresentation Quality

    Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi’an, Shaanxi, China · Southeast University Nanjing, Jiangsu, China · University of Technology Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia

  37. Interference-Aware Multi-Task Unlearning

    May 18, 2026Ying-Hua Huang, Rui Fang, Hsi-Wen Chen +1Machine UnlearningMulti--Task Learning

    National Taiwan University

  38. Machine Unlearning for Masked Diffusion Language Models

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

    1Dongguk University-Seoul · 2Chung-Ang University · 3Korea Institute for Advanced Study

  39. Form and Function: Machine Unlearning as a Problem of Misaligned States

    May 17, 2026Kennon StewartMachine UnlearningLearning-Augmented Algorithms

    Second Street Labs, Detroit, MI, USA · Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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

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

    School of Informatics, Xiamen University, China · Key Laboratory of Digital Protection and Intelligent Processing of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Fujian and Taiwan (Xiamen University), Ministry of Culture and Tourism, China · School of Film, Xiamen University, China +2

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

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

    1Fujian Normal University · 2Nanyang Technological University · University of New South Wales +1

  42. Inference-Time Machine Unlearning via Gated Activation Redirection

    May 12, 2026Vinícius Conte Turani, Otávio Parraga, João Vitor Boer Abitante +7Machine UnlearningInference-Time Steering

    MALTA, Machine Learning Theory and Applications Lab, PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil · Harvard University · Kunumi Institute, Brazil

  43. Classification-Head Bias in Class-Level Machine Unlearning: Diagnosis, Mitigation, and Evaluation

    May 9, 2026Weidong Zheng, Kongyang Chen, Yuanwei Guo +1Machine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510335, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China · Pazhou Lab, Guangzhou 510006, China +1

  44. Position: The Term "Machine Unlearning" Is Overused in LLMs

    May 8, 2026Sangyeon Yoon, Yeachan Jun, Albert NoMachine UnlearningDeletion

    Department of Artificial Intelligence, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

  45. Not Every Subject Should Stay: Machine Unlearning for Noisy Engagement Recognition

    May 6, 2026Alexander VedernikovMachine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    Helsinki, Finland

  46. Graph Federated Unlearning for Privacy Preservation

    May 4, 2026Ruotong Ma, Wentao Yu, Qizhou Wang +2Federated Graph LearningFederated Learning

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology · Hong Kong Baptist University China

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

    May 4, 2026Abdullah Ahmad Khan, Hamid Laga, Ferdous SohelLarge Language Model UnlearningMultimodal Evaluation

    Murdoch University

  48. DurableUn: Quantization-Induced Recovery Attacks in Machine Unlearning

    May 4, 2026Abdullah Ahmad Khan, Ferdous SohelMachine UnlearningCatastrophic Forgetting

    Murdoch University

  49. Unlearning Offline Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits

    May 1, 2026Zichun Ye, Runqi Wang, Xuchuang Wang +3Machine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts, United States · University of Washington, Tacoma, United States

  50. Machine Unlearning for Class Removal through SISA-based Deep Neural Network Architectures

    Apr 30, 2026Ishrak Hamim Mahi, Siam Ferdous, Md Sakib Sadman Badhon +4Machine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Brac University Dhaka, Bangladesh

  51. Does Machine Unlearning Preserve Clinical Safety? A Risk Analysis for Medical Image Classification

    Apr 26, 2026Andreza M. C. Falcao, Filipe R. CordeiroMachine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    Visual Computing Lab, Departamento de Computacao, Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco (UFRPE), Brasil

  52. Shape of Memory: a Geometric Analysis of Machine Unlearning in Second-Order Optimizers

    Apr 24, 2026Kennon StewartMachine UnlearningZeroth-Order Optimization

    Second Street Labs, Detroit, MI, USA · Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

  53. Robust Continual Unlearning against Knowledge Erosion and Forgetting Reversal

    Apr 21, 2026Eun-Ju Park, Youjin Shin, Simon S. WooMachine UnlearningForgetting

    1Sungkyunkwan University · 2The Catholic University of Korea · 3Secure Machines Lab

  54. Towards Reliable Testing of Machine Unlearning

    Apr 16, 2026Anna Mazhar, Sainyam GalhotraMachine UnlearningUnlearning Method

    Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA

  55. TRU: Targeted Reverse Update for Efficient Multimodal Recommendation Unlearning

    Apr 2, 2026Zhanting Zhou, KaHou Tam, Zeyu Ma +2Machine UnlearningMultimodal Recommendation Model

    University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Chengdu, China · University of Macau Macau, Macao

  56. Models Designed to Forget: Machine Unlearning via Key Deletion

    Mar 16, 2026Sonia Laguna, Jorge da Silva Goncalves, Moritz Vandenhirtz +3Machine UnlearningVision Foundation Models

    Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

  57. Retain-Free Machine Unlearning for Speech Emotion Recognition

    Oct 5, 2025Zhao Ren, Rathi Adarshi Rammohan, Kevin Scheck +3Machine UnlearningEmotion Recognition

    Cognitive Systems Lab, University of Bremen, Germany

  58. OFMU: Optimization-Driven Framework for Machine Unlearning

    Sep 26, 2025Sadia Asif, Mohammad Mohammadi AmiriMachine UnlearningRetraining

    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  59. Efficient Unlearning with Privacy Guarantees

    Jul 7, 2025Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Najeeb Jebreel, David SánchezMachine UnlearningPrivacy-Preserving Machine Learning

    1CYBERCAT (Center for Cybersecurity Research of2026 Catalonia), ComSCIAM-Center for Computational Science and Applied Mathematics, Department of Computer EngineeringJun and Mathematics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Av. Pa¨ısos26 Catalans 26, E-43007 Tarragona, Catalonia

  60. Machine Unlearning via Information Theoretic Regularization

    Feb 8, 2025Shizhou Xu, Thomas StrohmerMachine UnlearningExact Unlearning

    Department of Mathematics University of California Davis Davis, CA 95616-5270, USA · Department of Mathematics Center of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research University of California Davis Davis, CA 95616-5270, USA