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arxiv: 2606.17168 · v2 · pith:QOMWKUI5new · submitted 2026-06-15 · 💻 cs.CL

RepSelect: Robust LLM Unlearning via Representation Selectivity

Filip Sondej , Yushi Yang , Adam Mahdi This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.CL
keywords LLM unlearningrepresentation selectivityrobust forgettinggradient principal componentsforget set isolationfine-tuning resistancefew-shot prompting attacks
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RepSelect isolates forget-set-specific representations in LLMs by collapsing top principal components of weight gradients, achieving deep unlearning resistant to fine-tuning and prompting.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Large language models often recover supposedly forgotten information through fine-tuning or few-shot prompts, indicating that current unlearning methods only achieve shallow forgetting. The paper traces this to methods that alter representations shared between the forget set and the retain set, which attackers can restore. RepSelect instead collapses the top principal components of weight gradients before each update to target only forget-set-specific representations. This approach preserves general model capabilities while making recovery by attackers substantially harder. Evaluations across biohazardous knowledge, abusive tendencies, and multiple model families demonstrate much larger reductions in post-relearning accuracy than baselines.

Core claim

By collapsing the top principal components of weight gradients before each update, RepSelect isolates forget-set-specific representations, enabling robust unlearning that maintains general capabilities and resists reversal by fine-tuning or few-shot prompting. Evaluations on biohazardous knowledge and abusive tendencies across Llama 3, Qwen 3.5, Gemma 4, and DeepSeek V2 Lite models show 4-50x greater reduction in post-relearning answer accuracy compared to baselines including GradDiff, NPO, SimNPO, RMU, and UNDIAL, along with near-perfect robustness to few-shot prompting attacks.

What carries the argument

Representation Selectivity, implemented by collapsing top principal components of weight gradients before each update to isolate forget-set-specific representations while sparing shared ones.

If this is right

  • Unlearning remains effective even after subsequent fine-tuning on retain data.
  • General capabilities on unrelated tasks stay intact after the unlearning process.
  • The method applies across both dense and Mixture-of-Experts model architectures.
  • Few-shot prompting attacks fail to restore forgotten knowledge at high rates.
  • The reduction in relearning accuracy exceeds that of prior methods by a factor of 4 to 50.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The gradient-component approach may extend to selective editing tasks beyond unlearning, such as targeted value adjustment.
  • If the root-cause analysis of shared subspaces holds, similar selectivity could improve other safety interventions that currently suffer from reversibility.
  • Scalability tests on models larger than those evaluated could reveal whether the principal-component collapse remains effective at higher parameter counts.

Load-bearing premise

Collapsing top principal components of weight gradients isolates only forget-set-specific representations without disrupting general capabilities or allowing fine-tuning attackers to recover the forgotten information.

What would settle it

Fine-tuning an attacker model on the retain set after RepSelect unlearning recovers forget-set answer accuracy to levels matching a non-unlearned baseline, or general capability benchmarks drop substantially below baseline levels.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.17168 by Adam Mahdi, Filip Sondej, Yushi Yang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: A unified evaluation framework for LLM unlearning. We characterize unlearning along three measurable dimensions: forgetting, disruption, and robustness. Stage 1 unlearns on the forget set Dforget and measures forgetting (question-answering accuracy on held-out Deval) and disruption (MMLU, WikiText KL) on the retain set Dretain. Stage 2 applies relearning (fine-tuning and few-shot learning) on the relearn s… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview. (A) Top principal components (PCs, from SVD on forget set activations) capture most retain-set variance (red shades) and encode common concepts (red words) not specific to the forget set, while bottom PCs are more forget-specific. Naive unlearning targets mainly the top PCs, so it disrupts general capabilities and is trivially reversed by an attacker fine-tuning on similar data. (B) RepSelect col… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Unlearning trajectories of RepSelect and best baselines (Gemma-4-E4B): Left panels show the unlearning–disruption trade-off (x: WikiText KL divergence, i.e. disruption to retain set; y: post-attack answer probability, ↓ lower is better; bottom-left corner is ideal). Right panels show robustness under a fine-tuning attack (x: relearning epochs; a flat low line is more robust). For knowledge unlearning (WMDP… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Representation structure of forget PCs on Llama-3.1-8B (WMDP-Bio, Layer 10). (a) Retain and forget variance per PC (sorted high → low by forget variance): retain variance is ∼4× higher per PC in the top tiers than the bottom tiers, making the top subspace retain-concentrated. RepSelect collapses these top directions and operates in the retain-dilute bottom subspace. (b) Fraction of weight-update norm (∥∆W∥… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: RepSelect overview. For each MLP module, we accumulate the weight gradient ∇W L on the forget set (with LoRA active). The top principal components of ∇W L are softly collapsed, yielding a filtered update ∆W′ that avoids high-variance forget directions.The model is updated as W ← W − α · ∆W′ . is bounded by ϵk = P i>k λi/tr(Σ), where λi are the eigenvalues of the forget-corpus activation covariance Σ. This … view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Post-attack answer probability across methods and tasks. Lower is better (↓). RepSelect achieves substantially lower post-attack answer probability than all five baselines on both WMDP￾Bio and Animal Abuse (BeaverTails), across four model families. multi-epoch and w/o LoRA are RepSelect ablations. Error bars denote standard deviation across top 10 runs. apply the correction: a ′ = a − X k i=1  1 − λmin λi… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Collapse design ablations. Post-attack answer probability (↓) under variants of RepSelect’s collapse step: SVD source (forget vs retain distribution) crossed with what is collapsed (activations, output gradients, or both); no collapse is the unintervened gradient-ascent baseline. Two-sided collapse is consistently the best. For knowledge unlearning, SVD on forget distribution is better than on retain distr… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of two masking strategies. We show a slice of updates of a single weight matrix when unlearning “The capital of France is Paris". Weights are colored green when an update successfully unlearns a paraphrased fact ("France’s capital is Paris"), red when it disrupts recall of a different fact (“The capital of Spain is Madrid"), and blue for a control fact disruption (“The capital of Italy is Rome")… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: provides the same analysis of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Data scaling on Animal Abuse. Unlearning (left) and relearning (right) trajectories for RepSelect on BeaverTails Animal Abuse, varying the forget-set size from 10 to 360 samples (out of 371 available). Two models are shown (Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen3.5-9B); RepSelect is run without the LoRA adversary, with SVD computed on the forget set. 10 samples already achieve over half of the maximal unlearning, and 90 samp… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Unlearning and relearning trajectories on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Unlearning and relearning trajectories on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Unlearning and relearning trajectories on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_14.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Making large language models (LLMs) deeply forget specific knowledge and values without sacrificing general capabilities remains a central challenge in unlearning. Current methods are easily reversed by fine-tuning or few-shot prompting, suggesting their forgetting is only shallow. We identify the root cause. Existing methods target representations shared with both the retain set and the subspace recovered by a fine-tuning attacker, making unlearning both disruptive to general capabilities and easy to reverse. We propose RepSelect (Representation Selectivity), which isolates forget-set-specific representations by collapsing top principal components of weight gradients before each update, leaving general capabilities intact while limiting what fine-tuning can recover. We evaluate across two forget categories, biohazardous knowledge and abusive tendencies, and four model families spanning dense and Mixture-of-Experts architectures (Llama 3, Qwen 3.5, Gemma 4 E4B, DeepSeek V2 Lite). Compared to five popular baselines (GradDiff, NPO, SimNPO, RMU, UNDIAL), RepSelect achieves a 4-50x larger reduction in post-relearning answer accuracy than the strongest baseline, and is near-perfectly robust to few-shot prompting attacks. Targeting selective representations is thus an important step towards deep and robust LLM forgetting.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper claims that existing LLM unlearning methods fail due to targeting representations shared with retain sets and attacker-recoverable subspaces, leading to shallow forgetting. It proposes RepSelect, which isolates forget-set-specific representations by collapsing top principal components of weight gradients before each update. Evaluations on biohazardous knowledge and abusive tendencies across Llama 3, Qwen 3.5, Gemma 4 E4B, and DeepSeek V2 Lite show 4-50x larger post-relearning accuracy reductions than baselines (GradDiff, NPO, SimNPO, RMU, UNDIAL) and near-perfect robustness to few-shot prompting.

Significance. If the core assumption holds and the empirical gains are reproducible with proper controls, this would mark a meaningful step toward deep, robust unlearning that preserves general capabilities. The multi-architecture evaluation and direct comparison to five baselines are strengths; the work supplies falsifiable predictions via post-relearning and attack metrics.

major comments (3)
  1. [§3] §3 (root-cause analysis): The assertion that top PCs of weight gradients encode forget knowledge absent from retain gradients and attacker subspaces is not supported by explicit checks such as subspace overlap metrics, cosine similarity between forget/retain PCs, or explained variance on retain vs. forget sets. This assumption is load-bearing for both the motivation and the claim that collapsing them prevents recovery.
  2. [§4.2] §4.2 (experimental setup) and Table 2 (post-relearning results): The 4-50x reduction claim lacks reported details on the number of runs, random seeds, statistical significance tests, exact hyperparameter search for PC count, and per-baseline numbers with variance; without these, it is not possible to determine whether the headline gains are robust or driven by specific choices.
  3. [§4.3] §4.3 (robustness evaluation): The near-perfect robustness to few-shot prompting is presented without ablation on whether the collapsed directions overlap with prompting-induced recovery directions or on retain-set performance degradation after unlearning, leaving open whether general capabilities remain intact as claimed.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] Clarify in §3.1 whether weight gradients are computed per-layer or aggregated across the model, and provide the precise algorithm for selecting and collapsing the top-k PCs.
  2. [Figures/Tables] Ensure all figures include error bars or confidence intervals and that table captions explicitly define the metrics (e.g., answer accuracy post-relearning).

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive report. We address each major comment below, indicating revisions where the manuscript will be strengthened with additional analyses and reporting.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [§3] §3 (root-cause analysis): The assertion that top PCs of weight gradients encode forget knowledge absent from retain gradients and attacker subspaces is not supported by explicit checks such as subspace overlap metrics, cosine similarity between forget/retain PCs, or explained variance on retain vs. forget sets. This assumption is load-bearing for both the motivation and the claim that collapsing them prevents recovery.

    Authors: We agree that explicit quantitative validation would strengthen the root-cause analysis in §3. While the empirical superiority of RepSelect over baselines provides indirect support for the distinctness of the targeted subspaces, we will add direct checks including subspace overlap metrics, cosine similarities between forget-set and retain-set principal components, and comparisons of explained variance on both sets. These will be incorporated into the revised manuscript to make the load-bearing assumption explicit and falsifiable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.2] §4.2 (experimental setup) and Table 2 (post-relearning results): The 4-50x reduction claim lacks reported details on the number of runs, random seeds, statistical significance tests, exact hyperparameter search for PC count, and per-baseline numbers with variance; without these, it is not possible to determine whether the headline gains are robust or driven by specific choices.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the experimental reporting in §4.2 and Table 2 requires greater rigor. The original runs used multiple random seeds, but details were omitted. In the revision we will report results aggregated over five independent runs with different seeds, include per-baseline means and standard deviations in Table 2, add statistical significance tests (paired t-tests against the strongest baseline), and describe the procedure used to select the number of principal components (grid search on a small validation split). revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (robustness evaluation): The near-perfect robustness to few-shot prompting is presented without ablation on whether the collapsed directions overlap with prompting-induced recovery directions or on retain-set performance degradation after unlearning, leaving open whether general capabilities remain intact as claimed.

    Authors: We will strengthen §4.3 by adding two requested analyses: (1) an ablation measuring the cosine overlap between the collapsed principal components and the gradient directions recovered by few-shot prompting attacks, and (2) explicit retain-set accuracy and perplexity numbers before and after unlearning for all methods. These additions will directly address whether general capabilities are preserved and whether the collapsed directions are distinct from prompting-recovery directions. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical method with external baselines

full rationale

The paper describes an empirical unlearning technique (collapsing top PCs of weight gradients) and evaluates it via direct comparison to five external baselines across multiple models and tasks. No equations, derivations, or 'predictions' are presented that reduce reported gains to quantities defined by fitted parameters from the same data. The root-cause analysis is framed as observational identification of shared representations rather than a self-referential or fitted-input construction. No self-citation chains or ansatzes are invoked as load-bearing premises. The evaluation remains falsifiable against independent baselines, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained, non-circular result.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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Abstract-only review yields limited visibility into parameters or assumptions; the method rests on the domain assumption that gradient principal components separate forget-specific from general representations.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Representations shared with both retain set and fine-tuning attacker subspace cause shallow, reversible unlearning
    Stated as the identified root cause of existing methods' failure.

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