Why visual concepts resist unlearning: larger train/test gap than text

_vztu · x · 2026-10-17

Thread entry 3: multimodal unlearning is harder because a password is one exact string while a visual concept like Tokyo Tower appears in endless angles, lighting, and styles. With the same data and training, the train/test gap is much larger for image+text inputs than for text-only ones.

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