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most citedTo Generate or Not? Safety-Driven Unlearned Diffusion Models Are Still Easy To Generate Unsafe Images ... For Now

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cs.LG2026

Unlearners Can Lie: Evaluating and Improving Honesty in LLM Unlearning

Renjie Gu, Jiazhen Du, Yihua Zhang +1

Unlearning in large language models (LLMs) aims to remove harmful training data while preserving overall utility. However, we find that existing methods often hallucinate, generate…

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

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.LG2025

Tackling Fake Forgetting through Uncertainty Quantification

Yingdan Shi, Sijia Liu, Kaize Ding +1

Machine unlearning seeks to remove the influence of specified data from a trained model. While the unlearning accuracy provides a widely used metric for assessing unlearning perfor…

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.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.CV2024

Pruning then Reweighting: Towards Data-Efficient Training of Diffusion Models

Yize Li, Yihua Zhang, Sijia Liu +1

Despite the remarkable generation capabilities of Diffusion Models (DMs), conducting training and inference remains computationally expensive. Previous works have been devoted to a…

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.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

Challenging Forgets: Unveiling the Worst-Case Forget Sets in Machine Unlearning

Chongyu Fan, Jiancheng Liu, Alfred Hero +1

The trustworthy machine learning (ML) community is increasingly recognizing the crucial need for models capable of selectively 'unlearning' data points after training. This leads t…

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.CV2023★ 4 cited

Visual Prompting Upgrades Neural Network Sparsification: A Data-Model Perspective

Can Jin, Tianjin Huang, Yihua Zhang +4

The rapid development of large-scale deep learning models questions the affordability of hardware platforms, which necessitates the pruning to reduce their computational and memory…

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★ 6 cited

SalUn: Empowering Machine Unlearning via Gradient-based Weight Saliency in Both Image Classification and Generation

Chongyu Fan, Jiancheng Liu, Yihua Zhang +3

With evolving data regulations, machine unlearning (MU) has become an important tool for fostering trust and safety in today's AI models. However, existing MU methods focusing on d…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

To Generate or Not? Safety-Driven Unlearned Diffusion Models Are Still Easy To Generate Unsafe Images ... For Now

Yimeng Zhang, Jinghan Jia, Xin Chen +5

The recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized the generation of realistic and complex images. However, these models also introduce potential safety hazards, suc…

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…