Beyond Sample-Level Forgetting: Improving Reliability in Multimodal Unlearning

Abstract

Multimodal unlearning seeks to remove specific data from pretrained multimodal models while preserving reliability and locality. This work uses decoupled knowledge components, Multimodal Variational Inference, and contrastive semantic editing to improve refined forgetting under privacy- and copyright-sensitive scenarios.

Publication
In Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)
Jianzhou Wang
Jianzhou Wang
M.E. student
Yirui Wu
Yirui Wu
Young Professor, CCF Senior Member

My research interests include Computer Vision, Artifical Intelligence, Multimedia Computing and Intelligent Water Conservancy.

Lixin Yuan
Lixin Yuan
Lecturer
Wenxiao Zhang
Wenxiao Zhang
Associate Researcher