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Aug 2026
The More Popular, The Harder to Forget: Adaptive Popularity for LLM Unlearning
The AdaPop (Adaptive Popularity) method is proposed, which combines local token confidence with a per-fact popularity-dependent exponent derived from an external proxy, and automates the forget-retain balance via a dual-ascent controller that adjusts the retain penalty each epoch.
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