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Fine-tuning an LLM unlearned on Harry Potter text with general wiki information can elicit verbatim book-text recall.

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Unlearning or Obfuscating? Jogging the Memory of Unlearned LLMs via Benign RelearningJun 19, 2024 Untraced · nothing upstream recorded

relearning general wiki information about the book series Harry Potter can force the model to output verbatim memorized text

Unlearning or Obfuscating? Jogging the Memory of Unlearned LLMs via Benign Relearningextraction 0.80

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