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Opinion
Merullo: Current machine unlearning techniques merely suppress data rather than removing it
“I would describe it more as not unlearning, but maybe suppression. I think there's, like, really, like, I guess, guarantees that you've fully removed information from a model is, is, I don't think it's been convincingly showed anywhere yet”
Jack Merullo Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 6:44 [State of MechInterp] SAEs in Production, Circuit Tracing, AI4Science, "Pragmatic" Interp — Goodfire
Insight
Merullo: LLM memorization spans a gradient from reasoning to rote recall
“You can actually see, like the way that we, like, disentangle memorization, you can kind of see this like, gradient of memorization in between both mechanistically and behaviorally with, like, logical reasoning tasks being quite distinct from rote memorization…”
Jack Merullo Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 6:02 [State of MechInterp] SAEs in Production, Circuit Tracing, AI4Science, "Pragmatic" Interp — Goodfire
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