Journal article
Three Guarantees Under One Word: What Importance-Based Selective Forgetting in Language Models Can and Cannot Promise
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Unlearning methods are asked to deliver a guarantee, and the word is used for three different ones: that a model's outputs no longer reveal the target under some stated class of queries, that the target is absent from the weights, and that no…