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4 open-access journal articles on machine unlearning, published in 2026 in Life of Research. Every record is free to read and download, with a permanent link and a ready-made citation.
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Machine learning uses one word for four operations. Catastrophic forgetting is damage that fine-tuning does to earlier capabilities. Transience is the fading of individual training examples during ordinary training.
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Persistent memory has become a standard component of language-model agents, and with it a standard assumption: that where a fact lives in a retrievable store rather than in weights, erasing it is a solved problem, because a store supports deletion and weights do not. Agent memory does not hold the…
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Persistent memory has become a standard component of language-model agents, and with it a standard assumption: that where a fact lives in a retrievable store rather than in weights, erasing it is a solved problem, because a store supports deletion and weights do not. Agent memory does not hold the…
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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 adversary within a stated budget can restore it. This…