BLADE: Bilevel Low-rank Augmented-Lagrangian Erasure for LLM Unlearning
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arXiv:2608.22557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM unlearning methods struggle with robustness: unbounded forget losses degrade model coherence, fixed-weight balancing cannot adapt as retain difficulty shifts mid-training, and methods that work on one benchmark falter under scaling or repeated application. We propose BLADE, a constrained bilevel framework whose three mechanisms give smooth, predictable control over the optimization landscape: a clamped-entropy forget loss whose gradient is exactly zero once a token reaches sufficient uncertainty; an asymmetric augmented Lagrangian
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- arXiv:2608.22557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing LLM unlearning methods struggle with robustness: unbounded forget losses degrade model coherence, fixed-weight balancing cannot adapt as retain difficulty shifts mid-training, and methods that work on one benchmark falter under scaling or repeated application.
- We propose BLADE, a constrained bilevel framework whose three mechanisms give smooth, predictable control over the optimization landscape: a clamped-entropy forget loss whose gradient is exactly zero once a token reaches sufficient uncertainty; an asymmetric augmented Lagrangian
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