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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.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.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.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.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.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.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.,…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Selectivity Drives Productivity: Efficient Dataset Pruning for Enhanced Transfer Learning

Yihua Zhang, Yimeng Zhang, Aochuan Chen +6

Massive data is often considered essential for deep learning applications, but it also incurs significant computational and infrastructural costs. Therefore, dataset pruning (DP) h…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

DeepZero: Scaling up Zeroth-Order Optimization for Deep Model Training

Aochuan Chen, Yimeng Zhang, Jinghan Jia +7

Zeroth-order (ZO) optimization has become a popular technique for solving machine learning (ML) problems when first-order (FO) information is difficult or impossible to obtain. How…

cs.LG2023★ 12 cited

Model Sparsity Can Simplify Machine Unlearning

Jinghan Jia, Jiancheng Liu, Parikshit Ram +5

In response to recent data regulation requirements, machine unlearning (MU) has emerged as a critical process to remove the influence of specific examples from a given model. Altho…

cs.LG2023

Robustness-preserving Lifelong Learning via Dataset Condensation

Jinghan Jia, Yihua Zhang, Dogyoon Song +2

Lifelong learning (LL) aims to improve a predictive model as the data source evolves continuously. Most work in this learning paradigm has focused on resolving the problem of 'cata…

cs.LG2022

CLAWSAT: Towards Both Robust and Accurate Code Models

Jinghan Jia, Shashank Srikant, Tamara Mitrovska +4

We integrate contrastive learning (CL) with adversarial learning to co-optimize the robustness and accuracy of code models. Different from existing works, we show that code obfusca…

cs.LG2022★ 12 cited

How to Robustify Black-Box ML Models? A Zeroth-Order Optimization Perspective

Yimeng Zhang, Yuguang Yao, Jinghan Jia +4

The lack of adversarial robustness has been recognized as an important issue for state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) models, e.g., deep neural networks (DNNs). Thereby, robustif…