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most citedModel Sparsity Can Simplify Machine Unlearning

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cs.LG2026

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

Nobin Sarwar, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Zheyuan Liu +1

With the growing adoption of VLMs, DMs, LLMs, and AFMs, these multimodal foundation models can inadvertently encode sensitive, copyrighted, biased, or unsafe cross-modal associatio…

cs.LG2026

Faithfulness as Information Flow: Evaluating and Training Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Jinghan Jia, Joe Benton, Eric Easley

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is useful for monitoring language models only when the reasoning trace faithfully reflects the computation that produces the final answer. However,…

cs.CL2025

Beyond SFT: Reinforcement Learning for Safer Large Reasoning Models with Better Reasoning Ability

Jinghan Jia, Nathalie Baracaldo, Sijia Liu

Large reasoning models (LRMs) extend large language models by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, significantly improving mathematical and logical problem solving…

cs.LG2025

One Token Embedding Is Enough to Deadlock Your Large Reasoning Model

Mohan Zhang, Yihua Zhang, Jinghan Jia +3

Modern large reasoning models (LRMs) exhibit impressive multi-step problem-solving via chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. However, this iterative thinking mechanism introduces a new…

cs.LG2025

LLM Unlearning on Noisy Forget Sets: A Study of Incomplete, Rewritten, and Watermarked Data

Changsheng Wang, Yihua Zhang, Dennis Wei +3

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable generative capabilities but raise ethical and security concerns by memorizing sensitive data, reinforcing biases, and producing harm…

cs.LG2025

Downgrade to Upgrade: Optimizer Simplification Enhances Robustness in LLM Unlearning

Yicheng Lang, Yihua Zhang, Chongyu Fan +3

Large language model (LLM) unlearning aims to surgically remove the influence of undesired data or knowledge from an existing model while preserving its utility on unrelated tasks.…

cs.LG2025

EPiC: Towards Lossless Speedup for Reasoning Training through Edge-Preserving CoT Condensation

Jinghan Jia, Hadi Reisizadeh, Chongyu Fan +3

Large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities when trained with chain-of-thought (CoT) supervision. However, the long and verbose CoT traces, especially…

cs.AI2025

Reasoning Model Unlearning: Forgetting Traces, Not Just Answers, While Preserving Reasoning Skills

Changsheng Wang, Chongyu Fan, Yihua Zhang +5

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) have enabled strong chain-of-thought (CoT) generation through test-time computation. While these multi-step reasoning capabilities…

cs.CL2025

CyclicReflex: Improving Reasoning Models via Cyclical Reflection Token Scheduling

Chongyu Fan, Yihua Zhang, Jinghan Jia +2

Large reasoning models (LRMs), such as OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek-R1, harness test-time scaling to perform multi-step reasoning for complex problem-solving. This reasoning process, e…

cs.LG2025

BLUR: A Bi-Level Optimization Approach for LLM Unlearning

Hadi Reisizadeh, Jinghan Jia, Zhiqi Bu +6

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to unlearn knowledge and capabilities acquired during training has proven vital for ensuring compliance with data regulations and promoting et…

cs.LG2025

Invariance Makes LLM Unlearning Resilient Even to Unanticipated Downstream Fine-Tuning

Changsheng Wang, Yihua Zhang, Jinghan Jia +6

Machine unlearning offers a promising solution to privacy and safety concerns in large language models (LLMs) by selectively removing targeted knowledge while preserving utility. H…

cs.LG2025

Towards LLM Unlearning Resilient to Relearning Attacks: A Sharpness-Aware Minimization Perspective and Beyond

Chongyu Fan, Jinghan Jia, Yihua Zhang +3

The LLM unlearning technique has recently been introduced to comply with data regulations and address the safety and ethical concerns of LLMs by removing the undesired data-model i…

cs.LG2024

Forget Vectors at Play: Universal Input Perturbations Driving Machine Unlearning in Image Classification

Changchang Sun, Ren Wang, Yihua Zhang +5

Machine unlearning (MU), which seeks to erase the influence of specific unwanted data from already-trained models, is becoming increasingly vital in model editing, particularly to…

cs.AI2024

Robust Multi-bit Text Watermark with LLM-based Paraphrasers

Xiaojun Xu, Jinghan Jia, Yuanshun Yao +2

We propose an imperceptible multi-bit text watermark embedded by paraphrasing with LLMs. We fine-tune a pair of LLM paraphrasers that are designed to behave differently so that the…

cs.LG2024

SEUF: Is Unlearning One Expert Enough for Mixture-of-Experts LLMs?

Haomin Zhuang, Yihua Zhang, Kehan Guo +4

Recent advancements in LLMs unlearning have shown remarkable success in removing unwanted data-model influences while preserving the model's utility for legitimate knowledge. Despi…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

WAGLE: Strategic Weight Attribution for Effective and Modular Unlearning in Large Language Models

Jinghan Jia, Jiancheng Liu, Yihua Zhang +3

The need for effective unlearning mechanisms in large language models (LLMs) is increasingly urgent, driven by the necessity to adhere to data regulations and foster ethical genera…

cs.CL2024

Simplicity Prevails: Rethinking Negative Preference Optimization for LLM Unlearning

Chongyu Fan, Jiancheng Liu, Licong Lin +4

This work studies the problem of large language model (LLM) unlearning, aiming to remove unwanted data influences (e.g., copyrighted or harmful content) while preserving model util…

cs.CL2024

Leveraging LLMs for Dialogue Quality Measurement

Jinghan Jia, Abi Komma, Timothy Leffel +5

In task-oriented conversational AI evaluation, unsupervised methods poorly correlate with human judgments, and supervised approaches lack generalization. Recent advances in large l…

cs.LG2024

Label Smoothing Improves Machine Unlearning

Zonglin Di, Zhaowei Zhu, Jinghan Jia +6

The objective of machine unlearning (MU) is to eliminate previously learned data from a model. However, it is challenging to strike a balance between computation cost and performan…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

Defensive Unlearning with Adversarial Training for Robust Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models

Yimeng Zhang, Xin Chen, Jinghan Jia +6

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation, but they also pose safety risks, such as the potential generation of harmful content and copyri…

cs.LG2024

SOUL: Unlocking the Power of Second-Order Optimization for LLM Unlearning

Jinghan Jia, Yihua Zhang, Yimeng Zhang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have highlighted the necessity of effective unlearning mechanisms to comply with data regulations and ethical AI practices. LLM unlearning aims at remo…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

UnlearnCanvas: Stylized Image Dataset for Enhanced Machine Unlearning Evaluation in Diffusion Models

Yihua Zhang, Chongyu Fan, Yimeng Zhang +8

The technological advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in text-to-image generation and are widely used in diverse applications. Howev…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Rethinking Machine Unlearning for Large Language Models

Sijia Liu, Yuanshun Yao, Jinghan Jia +11

We explore machine unlearning (MU) in the domain of large language models (LLMs), referred to as LLM unlearning. This initiative aims to eliminate undesirable data influence (e.g.,…

eess.IV2023★ 1 cited

Robust MRI Reconstruction by Smoothed Unrolling (SMUG)

Shijun Liang, Van Hoang Minh Nguyen, Jinghan Jia +3

As the popularity of deep learning (DL) in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) continues to rise, recent research has indicated that DL-based MRI reconstruction models mi…