CALIBURN: Self-Calibrated LLM Unlearning Alignment
Zhengbang Yang,
Yisheng Zhong,
Junyuan Hong,
Zhuangdi Zhu
August 2026
Abstract
LLM unlearning offers a practical mechanism for addressing safety and privacy concerns by removing the influence of undesirable knowledge from pretrained language models. CALIBURN calibrates unlearning updates using the target model’s confidence, enabling fine-grained forgetting while better preserving general model utility.
Publication
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026)
Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track)
My research focuses on making AI models safe and aligned.