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

    Sep 14, 2026Minghui Huang, Junxiao WangMachine UnlearningExtreme Class Imbalance

  3. Correlation-Guided Fast Machine Unlearning via Hessian Analysis

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

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

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

  5. Published Unlearning Numbers Move Per Checkpoint, and Not Because the Removed Data Survives: An Audit of 263 Released Batch-Normalized Checkpoints

    Sep 12, 2026Junlong Shen Xingyu LiModel CheckpointsUnlearning Aims

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

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

  7. CUNO: Curriculum and Preference Optimization for Stable Graph Unlearning under Mass Deletion

    Sep 8, 2026Chenhan Zhang, Ali Braytee, Madhushi Bandara +4Machine UnlearningCurriculum

  8. Extracting Forgotten Prompts from Targeted Unlearned Models

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

  9. Source-Free Class Relearning: Diagnosing Forgetting in Class Unlearning

    Sep 2, 2026Zahra Dehghani, Pablo Piantanida, Mohammadhadi ShateriMachine UnlearningRetraining

  10. MUGEN: Generating Unlearnable Graph Examples for Multiple Learning Tasks

    Sep 1, 2026Ziyan Liu, Chengshuai Zhao, Huan LiuGraph LearningMachine Unlearning

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. The Nearest Target Is the Wrong One: Target Separation in Arc2Face Identity Unlearning

    Aug 30, 2026Zeynel TokIdentityUnlearning Aims

  14. 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

  15. 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

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

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

  17. Stress Testing Unlearning Algorithms

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

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

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

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

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

  20. 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

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

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

  22. Reversible Unlearnable Examples: Towards the Copyright Protection in Deep Learning Era

    Aug 6, 2026Binze Wang, Jinyu Tian, Xingrun Wang +2WatermarkingMachine Unlearning

  23. A Model Merging Approach for Continual MLLM Unlearning

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

  24. 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

  25. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  30. 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

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

    Aug 1, 2026Jun Nie, Yonggang Zhang, Tongliang Liu +3Synthetic Image DetectionAi-Generated Images

  32. Similarity-Aware Machine Unlearning

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

  33. 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

  34. When Unlearning Fails: Reliable Data Deletion under Post-Training in Agent Networks

    Jul 30, 2026Zihao Ding, Jun Huang, Liang DongMachine UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  35. Beyond Binary Rewards: A Comparative Study of Reward Design for Reinforcement Unlearning

    Jul 30, 2026Efstratios Zaradoukas, Davide Gabrielli, Bardh Prenkaj +1Machine UnlearningSafe Reinforcement Learning

  36. 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

  37. LU-500: A Logo Benchmark for Concept Unlearning

    Jul 27, 2026Keyu Li, Jin Gao, Jialing Zhang +1Unlearning Aims

  38. Understanding Machine Unlearning Through the Lens of Mode Connectivity

    Jul 27, 2026Jiali Cheng, Hadi AmiriMachine UnlearningAutomation and Machines

  39. DECAF: De-Clustering for Adaptive Representational Unlearning

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

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

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

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

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

  42. On Optimization Complexity of Second-Order Certified Unlearning

    Jul 22, 2026Nikita Doikov, Anastasia KoloskovaMachine Unlearning

  43. Unlearning as Distribution Restoration: A Controlled Counterfactual Study, a Validated Selective Screen, and the Limits of Oracle-Free Certification

    Jul 21, 2026Sen Yang, Yuen-Hei YeungMachine UnlearningCertification

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

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

  45. 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

  46. Signal-Guided Optimization for Machine Unlearning

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

  47. Weight-Adjusted Gradients Reveal Parameter Importance and Failure Modes in LLMs

    Jul 12, 2026Shrestha Datta, Hongfu Liu, Anshuman ChhabraModel WeightsGradcam

  48. DiffUE: Enhancing Utility-Unlearnability Trade-off of Unlearnable Examples via Diffusion Autoencoders

    Jul 12, 2026Syed Irfan Ali Meerza, Oktay Ozturk, Amir Sadovnik +1Machine UnlearningImagenet

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

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

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

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

  51. 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

  52. 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

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

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

  54. Auditing of Unlearning Algorithms

    Jul 7, 2026Sahasrajit Sarmasarkar, Anastasia Koloskova, Sanmi KoyejoMachine UnlearningUnlearning Aims

  55. Association Restoration Test: Revealing Restorable Shortcuts after Unlearning

    Jul 7, 2026Amy Lu, Changxiu JiShortcutsUnlearning Aims

  56. 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

  57. MUTE: Return-Preserving Communication Unlearning for Efficient Multi-Agent Coordination

    Jul 3, 2026Rui Zuo, Qinwei Huang, Mingyang Li +3Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningMachine Unlearning

  58. Efficient bias mitigation in T2I diffusion models using Concept Graphs

    Jul 3, 2026Mansi, Avinash Kori, Francesco LeofanteText-To-Image Diffusion ModelsVideo-Text Alignment

  59. 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

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

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