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cs.LG2025

Unlearning Isn't Invisible: Detecting Unlearning Traces in LLMs from Model Outputs

Yiwei Chen, Soumyadeep Pal, Yimeng Zhang +2

Machine unlearning (MU) for large language models (LLMs), commonly referred to as LLM unlearning, seeks to remove specific undesirable data or knowledge from a trained model, while…

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

The Power of Few: Accelerating and Enhancing Data Reweighting with Coreset Selection

Mohammad Jafari, Yimeng Zhang, Yihua Zhang +1

As machine learning tasks continue to evolve, the trend has been to gather larger datasets and train increasingly larger models. While this has led to advancements in accuracy, it…

cs.LG2024★ 7 cited

Revisiting Zeroth-Order Optimization for Memory-Efficient LLM Fine-Tuning: A Benchmark

Yihua Zhang, Pingzhi Li, Junyuan Hong +10

In the evolving landscape of natural language processing (NLP), fine-tuning pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) with first-order (FO) optimizers like SGD and Adam has become s…

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.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…