Forgetting Only What Matters: Layer-Selective Unlearning toward Robust LLMs

arXiv:2609.10439 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-09

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: 22 pages, 6 figures, 11 tables, AACL-IJCNLP 2026, conference paper

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Quantization — 3× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Machine Unlearning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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