Puning Yang

I am an incoming Ph.D. student at NLP, MBZUAI, working with Asst. Prof. Xiuying Chen. My research is dedicated to building trustworthy machine learning systems and exploring their applications in various sub-tasks.

I obtained my Master degree at the Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, advised by Prof. Ran He. I was a research intern at the TMLR Group, Hong Kong Baptist University, working with A.P. Bo Han. I am also closely collaborating with Dr. Junchi Yu and Dr. Qizhou Wang.

Feel free to drop me an e-mail if you would like to discuss and collaborate!

Publications ( Full Publication List )

Distinguishable Deletion: Unifying Knowledge Erasure and Refusal for Large Language Model Unlearning
Puning Yang, Junchi Yu, Qizhou Wang, Philip Torr, Bo Han, Xiuying Chen
ICML, 2026
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Exploring a New Paradigm for LLM Unlearning.

Exploring Criteria of Loss Reweighting to Enhance LLM Unlearning
Puning Yang, Qizhou Wang, Zhuo Huang, Tongliang Liu, Chengqi Zhang, Bo Han
ICML, 2025
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An Empirical Study on Loss Reweighting for LLM Unlearning with a New Method Saturation-Importance (SatImp).

Towards Effective Evaluations and Comparisons for LLM Unlearning Methods
Qizhou Wang, Bo Han, Puning Yang, Jianing Zhu, Tongliang Liu, Masashi Sugiyama
ICLR, 2025
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A Better Metric to Evaluate LLM Unlearning Effectiveness.

Academic Service

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Journals: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
Conferences: ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV.

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