Quantization-aware (QAT) unlearning on the MUSE Books corpus.
Asymmetric per-group-128 INT8 fake-quant (STE) throughout unlearning (deployed/evaluated at real 4-bit).
The saved weights are full-precision (bf16); the fake-quant makes them robust to
real 4-bit quantization at deployment. Motivation: standard NPO unlearning is
reversed by 4-bit quantization (forgotten content re-surfaces); QAT aims to
keep the model unlearned after quantization.
Fake-quant: asymmetric affine, per-group (128), straight-through estimator, on
q/k/v/o/gate/up/down projections
Variant tag: QAT-int8
Evaluation
MUSE metrics (verbmem_f / knowmem_f: forget memorization, lower = better
unlearning; knowmem_r: retain utility; privleak: MIA gap) at bf16 / int4 (matched
asymmetric-RTN) / NF4 will be added in results.csv once the eval completes.