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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

Machine unlearning in foundation models (e.g., language and vision transformers) is essential for privacy and safety; however, existing approaches are unstable and unreliable. A widely used strategy, the gradient difference method, applies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Arpit Garg , Hemanth Saratchandran , Ravi Garg , Simon Lucey

Large Language Model (LLM) unlearning aims to erase or suppress undesirable knowledge within the model, offering promise for controlling harmful or private information to prevent misuse. However, recent studies highlight its limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Xiaotian Ye , Mengqi Zhang , Shu Wu

Distilling underlying principles from data has historically driven scientific breakthroughs. However, conventional data-driven machine learning often produces complex models that lack interpretability and generalization due to insufficient…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-28 Zhilong Song , Qionghua Zhou , Chunjin Ren , Chongyi Ling , Minggang Ju , Jinlan Wang

Large language models (LLMs) with billions of parameters exhibit in-context learning abilities, enabling few-shot learning on tasks that the model was not specifically trained for. Traditional models achieve breakthrough performance on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Aske Plaat , Annie Wong , Suzan Verberne , Joost Broekens , Niki van Stein , Thomas Back

With the widespread adoption of vibe coding, understanding the reasoning and robustness of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critical for their reliable use in programming tasks. While recent studies assess LLMs' ability to predict program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pedro Orvalho , Marta Kwiatkowska

The imperative to eliminate undesirable data memorization underscores the significance of machine unlearning for large language models (LLMs). Recent research has introduced a series of promising unlearning methods, notably boosting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Puning Yang , Jianing Zhu , Tongliang Liu , Masashi Sugiyama

Scientific discovery plays a pivotal role in advancing human society, and recent progress in large language models (LLMs) suggests their potential to accelerate this process. However, it remains unclear whether LLMs can autonomously…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zonglin Yang , Wanhao Liu , Ben Gao , Tong Xie , Yuqiang Li , Wanli Ouyang , Soujanya Poria , Erik Cambria , Dongzhan Zhou

Pretrained large Language Models (LLMs) are able to answer questions that are unlikely to have been encountered during training. However a diversity of potential applications exist in the broad domain of reasoning systems and considerations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Tim Hartill

While training large language models (LLMs) from scratch can generate models with distinct functionalities and strengths, it comes at significant costs and may result in redundant capabilities. Alternatively, a cost-effective and compelling…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Fanqi Wan , Xinting Huang , Deng Cai , Xiaojun Quan , Wei Bi , Shuming Shi

Large language models (LLMs) achieve impressive results on many benchmarks, yet their capacity for planning and stateful reasoning remains unclear. We study these abilities directly, without code execution or other tools, using the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Charles Schepanowski , Charles Ling

This Innovative Practice full paper explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) can enhance the teaching of code refactoring in software engineering courses through real-time, context-aware feedback. Refactoring improves code quality but is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Anshul Khairnar , Aarya Rajoju , Edward F. Gehringer

With the passage of the Right to Be Forgotten (RTBF) regulations and the scaling up of language model training datasets, research on model unlearning in large language models (LLMs) has become more crucial. Before the era of LLMs, machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Bichen Wang , Yuzhe Zi , Yixin Sun , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

Large language models (LLMs) are not amenable to frequent re-training, due to high training costs arising from their massive scale. However, updates are necessary to endow LLMs with new skills and keep them up-to-date with rapidly evolving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Tongtong Wu , Linhao Luo , Yuan-Fang Li , Shirui Pan , Thuy-Trang Vu , Gholamreza Haffari

Unlearning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for protecting private data and removing harmful knowledge. Most existing approaches rely on fine-tuning to balance unlearning efficiency with general language capabilities. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Yaxuan Wang , Chris Yuhao Liu , Quan Liu , Jinglong Pang , Wei Wei , Yujia Bao , Yang Liu

Machine unlearning in the domain of large language models (LLMs) has attracted great attention recently, which aims to effectively eliminate undesirable behaviors from LLMs without full retraining from scratch. In this paper, we explore the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Zibin Pan , Shuwen Zhang , Yuesheng Zheng , Chi Li , Yuheng Cheng , Junhua Zhao

Q-learning excels in learning from feedback within sequential decision-making tasks but often requires extensive sampling to achieve significant improvements. While reward shaping can enhance learning efficiency, non-potential-based methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Xiefeng Wu

Can large language models solve AI research problems using only their parametric knowledge, without fine-tuning, retrieval, or other external aids? We introduce AInstein, a framework for testing whether LLM agents can generate and refine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Shambhavi Mishra , Gaurav Sahu , Marco Pedersoli , Laurent Charlin , Jose Dolz , Christopher Pal

Reasoning Language Models, capable of extended chain-of-thought reasoning, have demonstrated remarkable performance on tasks requiring complex logical inference. However, applying elaborate reasoning for all queries often results in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Gongfan Fang , Xinyin Ma , Xinchao Wang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are large-scale pretrained models that have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains. These successes have been driven by unprecedented complexity and scale in both data and computations. However, due…