arxivcs.CLcs.LG2026-07-21
Stochastic Meta-Unlearning: Bridging Language Backbone and Multimodal Unlearning
Zijie Liu, Jinhao Duan, Gaowen Liu, Sijia Liu, Tianlong Chen
Machine unlearning for vision-language models (VLMs) remains underexplored. Unlike language models, VLMs combine a language backbone with visual components, which makes unlearning more complex. There is a surprising phenomenon when moving from single-modality unlearning to VLM un…