arxivcs.CVcs.CLcs.CR2026-07-17
One Modality to Forget Them All: Enhancing Cross-Modal Unlearning in Vision-Language Models
Sudharshan Balaji, Yili Ren, Guangjing Wang, Yimin Chen, Ning Wang
Machine unlearning is widely used to remove hazardous knowledge from large language models. Modern Vision-Language Models (VLMs), however, process both text and visual inputs, raising a fundamental security question: does unlearning in one modality transfer to the other? We prese…