publications

2026

1. EMNLP 2026

   Representation-Aware Unlearning via Activation Signatures: From Suppression to Entity-Signature Erasure

   Syed Naveed Mahmood, Md. Rezaur Rahman Bhuiyan, Tasfia Zaman, and 5 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10566, 2026

   Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026; proceedings version forthcoming.

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   This work studies representation-aware machine unlearning through activation signatures, moving beyond behavioral suppression toward erasure of internal knowledge signatures.

   @article{mahmood2026representation,
     title = {Representation-Aware Unlearning via Activation Signatures: From Suppression to Entity-Signature Erasure},
     author = {Mahmood, Syed Naveed and Bhuiyan, Md. Rezaur Rahman and Zaman, Tasfia and Khondaker, Jareen Tasneem and Sakib, Md. Sameer and Wadith, K. M. Shadman and Tasnim, Nazia and Sadeque, Farig},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10566},
     note = {Accepted to Findings of EMNLP 2026; proceedings version forthcoming.},
     year = {2026},
     doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2601.10566},
   }

2. BlackboxNLP 2026

   Same Sink, Different Plumbing: Reproducing and Refining the Mechanism of Attention Sinks

   Abdullah Al Zubayer, Syed Naveed Mahmood, Md. Rezaur Rahman Bhuiyan, and 4 more authors

   2026

   Accepted to the BlackboxNLP 2026 Reproducibility Special Track; workshop proceedings forthcoming.

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   @misc{alzubayer2026samesink,
     title = {Same Sink, Different Plumbing: Reproducing and Refining the Mechanism of Attention Sinks},
     author = {Al Zubayer, Abdullah and Mahmood, Syed Naveed and Bhuiyan, Md. Rezaur Rahman and Abrar, Mir Md Mohiuddin and Khondaker, Jareen Tasneem and Zaman, Tasfia and Sadeque, Farig},
     year = {2026},
     note = {Accepted to the BlackboxNLP 2026 Reproducibility Special Track; workshop proceedings forthcoming.},
   }