Sijia Liu, Qing Qu, Yimeng Zhang, Soumyadeep Pal, Yiwei Chen
We lifted 7 functions out of this paper's own repositories and ran 0 of them in a sandbox. "Ran" means the function executed on a synthesized input and returned a value. It is not a reproduction of the paper's results.
| Repository | Role | Ran |
|---|---|---|
| OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace | canonical | 0 of 7 |
| Function | Status | Where it lives |
|---|---|---|
| create_dataset | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/generate_response.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("726c7400ec239162") |
| create_dataset_from_json | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/generate_wmdp_response.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("7065a0494ef687e5") |
| load_dataset | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/classification.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("67ea27e453497ccc") |
| merge_fixed | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/data_process/mixed_eval.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("c6c3d297bf440870") |
| merge_fixed | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/data_process/mixed_train.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("b292f15dd2509309") |
| normalize_question | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/data_process/split.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("c557f5e22a5ff852") |
| relaxed_equal | Not yet run | OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace/data_process/split.py code served (permissive licence) · get_code("9cbe3b77443b46dc") |
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Machine unlearning (MU) for large language models (LLMs), commonly referred to as LLM unlearning, seeks to remove specific undesirable data or knowledge from a trained model, while maintaining its performance on standard tasks. While unlearning plays a vital role in protecting data privacy, enforcing copyright, and mitigating sociotechnical harms in LLMs, we identify a new vulnerability postunlearning: unlearning trace detection. We discover that unlearning leaves behind persistent "fingerprints" in LLMs, detectable traces in both model behavior and internal representations. These traces can be identified from output responses, even when prompted with forget-irrelevant inputs. Specifically, even a simple supervised classifier can determine whether a model has undergone unlearning, using only its prediction logits or even its textual outputs. Further analysis shows that these traces are embedded in intermediate activations and propagate nonlinearly to the final layer, forming low-dimensional, learnable manifolds in activation space. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that unlearning traces can be detected with over 90% accuracy even under forget-irrelevant inputs, and that larger LLMs exhibit stronger detectability. These findings reveal that unlearning leaves measurable signatures, introducing a new risk of reverse-engineering forgotten information when a model is identified as unlearned, given an input query. Codes are available at https://github.com/OPTML-Group/Unlearn-Trace.
The same record, over MCP at https://syntology.ai/mcp:
get_harvested_code_for_paper("2506.14003")
get_code_for_paper("2506.14003")
have("2506.14003")
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