Query-time neuron gates can selectively suppress unwanted language-model knowledge

The authors freeze the base model, locate candidate neurons in one forward pass, and train small modules to suppress them only when prompts invoke targeted concepts.

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Bardh Prenkaj · Andrea D'Angelo · Davide Mottin · Federico Fontana · Davide Gabrielli · Paola Velardi · +1 more

Sapienza University of Rome · Aarhus University · ISTC-CNR

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Prenkaj et al.

CRU first runs the forget set through the frozen language model once.

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Causal routing for unlearning freezes the base model and gates only neurons expressing the forget-set concept, cutting memory to 14 GiB and beating baselines on recall.

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