Forgetting Only What Matters: Layer-Selective Unlearning toward Robust LLMs
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arXiv:2609.10439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can memorize and reproduce sensitive, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable training content, creating privacy, safety, and regulatory concerns. Machine unlearning offers a practical alternative to full retraining, but many existing methods apply broad or fixed parameter updates that can degrade utility and remain brittle under deployment changes such as post-training quantization, where forgotten knowledge may partially re-emerge. We propose Forgetting Only What Matters via Unlearning Layers (FOM-UL), a layer-level
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.10439v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) can memorize and reproduce sensitive, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable training content, creating privacy, safety, and regulatory concerns.
- Machine unlearning offers a practical alternative to full retraining, but many existing methods apply broad or fixed parameter updates that can degrade utility and remain brittle under deployment changes such as post-training quantization, where forgotten knowledge may partially re-emerge.
- We propose Forgetting Only What Matters via Unlearning Layers (FOM-UL), a layer-level
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