arXiv:2607.05726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Association unlearning aims to disable learned label-attribute shortcuts while preserving task performance. Existing evaluations mainly measure output-level robustness or probe whether shortcut attributes remain readable in frozen features, but neither test determines whether a retained association remains functionally usable by the original classifier. We propose the Association Restoration Test (ART), a post-hoc diagnostic for functional shortcut restorability. ART estimates class-conditional association directions, amplifies residual compone
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