arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational5 October 2026
Certified Mechanistic Edits: Behavioral Guarantees for Skill Removal and Preservation
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arXiv:2610.03502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mechanistic edits (ablations, weight edits, activation steering) are the standard tools for unlearning a harmful capability from a neural network while preserving useful ones. Current approaches validate their effects only by testing, which can never cover an entire continuous region of inputs. Prior work at the interpretability-verification boundary certifies descriptions of a model: what a circuit computes, or whether it faithfully explains the whole. We instead certify the behavioral effect of an edit: that disabling a circuit removes one sk
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