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Machine unlearning aims to erase requested data from trained models without full retraining. For Reasoning Multimodal Large Language Models (RMLLMs), this is uniquely challenging: intermediate chain-of-thought steps can still leak sensitive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Hongji Li , Junchi yao , Manjiang Yu , Priyanka Singh , Xue Li , Di Wang , Lijie Hu

As real-world knowledge continues to evolve, the parametric knowledge acquired by multimodal models during pretraining becomes increasingly difficult to remain consistent with real-world knowledge. Existing research on multimodal knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Baochen Fu , Yuntao Du , Cheng Chang , Baihao Jin , Wenzhi Deng , Muhao Xu , Hongmei Yan , Weiye Song , Yi Wan

Federated Unlearning (FU) is emerging as a powerful tool that enables the selective removal of client data to effectively address data contamination and meet strict privacy regulations in mobile edge computing (MEC) systems. Although FU has…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zihao Ding , Beining Wu , Jun Huang

Machine unlearning has the potential to improve the safety of large language models (LLMs) by removing sensitive or harmful information post hoc. A key challenge in unlearning involves balancing between forget quality (effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shengyuan Hu , Neil Kale , Pratiksha Thaker , Yiwei Fu , Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

Large language models deployed in sensitive applications increasingly require the ability to unlearn specific knowledge, such as user requests, copyrighted materials, or outdated information, without retraining from scratch to ensure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sadia Asif , Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri

In recent years, unlearning techniques, which are methods for inducing a model to "forget" previously learned information, have attracted attention as a way to address privacy and copyright concerns in large language models (LLMs) and large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Tatsuki Kawakami , Kazuki Egashira , Atsuyuki Miyai , Go Irie , Kiyoharu Aizawa

Machine unlearning has emerged as a critical capability for addressing privacy, safety, and regulatory concerns in large language models (LLMs). Existing methods operate at the sequence level, applying uniform updates across all tokens…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jiawei Wu , Doudou Zhou

Evaluating machine unlearning methods remains technically challenging, with recent benchmarks requiring complex setups and significant engineering overhead. We introduce a unified and extensible benchmarking suite that simplifies the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Roy Rinberg , Pol Puigdemont , Martin Pawelczyk , Volkan Cevher

LLMs trained on massive datasets may inadvertently acquire sensitive information such as personal details and potentially harmful content. This risk is further heightened in multimodal LLMs as they integrate information from multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Vaidehi Patil , Yi-Lin Sung , Peter Hase , Jie Peng , Tianlong Chen , Mohit Bansal

Machine unlearning aims to remove private or sensitive data from a pre-trained model while preserving the model's robustness. Despite recent advances, this technique has not been explored in medical image classification. This work evaluates…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Andreza M. C. Falcao , Filipe R. Cordeiro

As pretrained models are increasingly shared on the web, ensuring that models can forget or delete sensitive, copyrighted, or private information upon request has become crucial. Machine unlearning has been proposed to address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Yurim Jang , Jaeung Lee , Dohyun Kim , Jaemin Jo , Simon S. Woo

Pretrained models like CLIP have demonstrated impressive zero-shot classification capabilities across diverse visual domains, spanning natural images, artistic renderings, and abstract representations. However, real-world applications often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ashish Mishra , Gyanaranjan Nayak , Tarun Kumar , Arpit Shah , Suparna Bhattacharya , Martin Foltin

Recent legal frameworks have mandated the right to be forgotten, obligating the removal of specific data upon user requests. Machine Unlearning has emerged as a promising solution by selectively removing learned information from machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Xiang Li , Bhavani Thuraisingham , Wenqi Wei

Large language models (LLMs) frequently memorize sensitive information during training, posing risks when deploying publicly accessible models. Current machine unlearning methods struggle to selectively remove specific data associations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Saransh Agrawal , Kuan-Hao Huang

As the Large Language Model (LLM) gains widespread adoption, increasing attention has been given to the challenge of making LLM forget non-compliant data memorized during its pre-training. Machine Unlearning focuses on efficiently erasing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Yujian Sun , Tian Li

Learning multimodal representations involves integrating information from multiple heterogeneous sources of data. It is a challenging yet crucial area with numerous real-world applications in multimedia, affective computing, robotics,…

Multi-label image classification is a foundational topic in various domains. Multimodal learning approaches have recently achieved outstanding results in image representation and single-label image classification. For instance, Contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Fengjun Wang , Sarai Mizrachi , Moran Beladev , Guy Nadav , Gil Amsalem , Karen Lastmann Assaraf , Hadas Harush Boker

Although Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across a wide range of tasks, growing concerns have emerged over the misuse of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful data during training. To address these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jie Ren , Zhenwei Dai , Xianfeng Tang , Yue Xing , Shenglai Zeng , Hui Liu , Jingying Zeng , Qiankun Peng , Samarth Varshney , Suhang Wang , Qi He , Charu C. Aggarwal , Hui Liu

The application of Deep Learning in medical diagnosis must balance patient safety with compliance with data protection regulations. Machine Unlearning enables the selective removal of training data from deployed models. However, most…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Andreza M. C. Falcao , Filipe R. Cordeiro

Multimodal affective computing underpins key tasks such as sentiment analysis and emotion recognition. Standard evaluations, however, often assume that textual, acoustic, and visual modalities are equally available. In real applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Tien Anh Pham , Phuong-Anh Nguyen , Duc-Trong Le , Cam-Van Thi Nguyen