PPU-Bench:Real World Benchmark for Personalized Partial Unlearning in Vision Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08800v1
• Date: Sat, 09 May 2026 08:46:00 GMT
• Title: PPU-Bench:Real World Benchmark for Personalized Partial Unlearning in Vision Language Models
• Abstract summary: We introduce PPU-Bench, a real-world and fine-tuning-free benchmark for personalized partial unlearning in MLLMs.<n>PPU-Bench contains 24K multimodal and unimodal samples derived from pre-existing knowledge of 500 public figures.
• Score: 21.018275195083305
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) may memorize sensitive cross-modal information during pretraining. However, existing MLLM unlearning benchmarks rely on synthetic knowledge injection or complete subject-level deletion, which fail to capture realistic, personalized deletion requests that require fine-grained factual control. In this paper, we introduce PPU-Bench, a real-world and fine-tuning-free benchmark for personalized partial unlearning in MLLMs. PPU-Bench contains 24K multimodal and unimodal samples derived from pre-existing knowledge of 500 public figures under three progressively challenging settings: Complete, Selective, and Personalized unlearning. The benchmark evaluates whether methods can remove target knowledge while preserving non-target facts, model utility, and cross-modal consistency. Extensive experiments show that Complete Unlearning often suppresses visual identity rather than factual knowledge, while Selective and Personalized Unlearning expose significant forget--retain trade-offs and challenges in intra-subject factual boundaries. Robustness analysis under cross-image and prompt-based attacks reveals distinct vulnerabilities across different unlearning settings. Motivated by these findings, we propose Boundary-Aware Optimization (BAO), which explicitly models intra-subject forget-retain boundaries. Experimental results on two representative methods demonstrate that BAO can effectively enforce intra-subject factual boundaries.

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