Arman Hatami

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021

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Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Trustworthy machine learning · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning › machine unlearning
LLM unlearning
0.912025
Constrained Entropic Unlearning: A Primal-Dual Framework for Large Language Models · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
machine unlearning
0.912025
Constrained Entropic Unlearning: A Primal-Dual Framework for Large Language Models · NeurIPS 2025
Machine learning › Trustworthy machine learning
privacy and data protection
0.912025
Constrained Entropic Unlearning: A Primal-Dual Framework for Large Language Models · NeurIPS 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

primal-dual optimization · 0.9logit-margin flattening loss · 0.9constrained optimization · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Constrained Entropic Unlearning: A Primal-Dual Framework for Large Language Models
abstract
Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed in real-world settings increasingly face the need to unlearn sensitive, outdated, or proprietary information. Existing unlearning methods typically formulate forgetting and retention as a regularized trade-off, combining both objectives into a single scalarized loss. This often leads to unstable optimization and degraded performance on retained data, especially under aggressive forgetting. We propose a new formulation of LLM unlearning as a constrained optimization problem: forgetting is enforced via a novel logit-margin flattening loss that explicitly drives the output distribution toward uniformity on a designated forget set, while retention is preserved through a hard constraint on a separate retain set. Compared to entropy-based objectives, our loss is softmax-free, numerically stable, and maintains non-vanishing gradients, enabling more efficient and robust optimization. We solve the constrained problem using a scalable primal-dual algorithm that exposes the trade-off between forgetting and retention through the dynamics of the dual variable, all without any extra computational overhead. Evaluations on the TOFU and MUSE benchmarks across diverse LLM architectures demonstrate that our approach consistently matches or exceeds state-of-the-art baselines, effectively removing targeted information while preserving downstream utility.
Taha Entesari, Arman Hatami, Rinat Khaziev, Anil Ramakrishna, Mahyar Fazlyab
NeurIPS2