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Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved impressive image generation quality and are increasingly fine-tuned for personalized applications. However, these models often inherit unsafe behaviors from toxic pretraining data, raising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Boheng Li , Renjie Gu , Junjie Wang , Leyi Qi , Yiming Li , Run Wang , Zhan Qin , Tianwei Zhang

Unified multimodal generation architectures that jointly produce text and images have recently emerged as a promising direction for text-to-image (T2I) synthesis. However, many existing systems rely on explicit modality switching,…

Since the advent of GANs and VAEs, image generation models have continuously evolved, opening up various real-world applications with the introduction of Stable Diffusion and DALL-E models. These text-to-image models can generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Hyunwoo Yoo

Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have shown exceptional potential in generating high-quality images. However, recent studies highlight concerns over the use of unauthorized data in training these models, which may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Soumil Datta , Shih-Chieh Dai , Leo Yu , Guanhong Tao

This paper investigates the challenging task of detecting backdoored text-to-image models under black-box settings and introduces a novel detection framework BlackMirror. Existing approaches typically rely on analyzing image-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Feiran Li , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Xilin Zhao , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Text-to-image (T2I) models, though exhibiting remarkable creativity in image generation, can be exploited to produce unsafe images. Existing safety measures, e.g., content moderation or model alignment, fail in the presence of white-box…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xinfeng Li , Shengyuan Pang , Jialin Wu , Jiangyi Deng , Huanlong Zhong , Yanjiao Chen , Jie Zhang , Wenyuan Xu

Recently, text-to-image models have been thriving. Despite their powerful generative capacity, our research has uncovered a lack of robustness in this generation process. Specifically, the introduction of small perturbations to the text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Chengbin Du , Yanxi Li , Zhongwei Qiu , Chang Xu

During fine-tuning, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly vulnerable to data-poisoning backdoor attacks, which compromise their reliability and trustworthiness. However, existing defense strategies suffer from limited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Shuai Zhao , Xinyi Wu , Shiqian Zhao , Xiaobao Wu , Zhongliang Guo , Yanhao Jia , Anh Tuan Luu

Model editing offers a low-cost technique to inject or correct a particular behavior in a pre-trained model without extensive retraining, supporting applications such as factual correction and bias mitigation. Despite this common practice,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Feng He , Zhenyang Liu , Marco Valentino , Zhixue Zhao

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated strong generation ability, but their potential to generate unsafe content raises significant safety concerns. Existing inference-time defense methods typically perform category-agnostic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Binhong Tan , Zhaoxin Wang , Handing Wang

The diffusion model has provided a strong tool for implementing text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-image (I2I) generation. Recently, topology and texture control are popular explorations, e.g., ControlNet, IP-Adapter, Ctrl-X, and DSG. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jia Li , Nan Gao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

Image colorization has been attracting the research interests of the community for decades. However, existing methods still struggle to provide satisfactory colorized results given grayscale images due to a lack of human-like global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hanyuan Liu , Jinbo Xing , Minshan Xie , Chengze Li , Tien-Tsin Wong

While latent diffusion models (LDMs) excel at creating imaginative images, they often lack precision in semantic fidelity and spatial control over where objects are generated. To address these deficiencies, we introduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Ashkan Taghipour , Morteza Ghahremani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Aref Miri Rekavandi , Hamid Laga , Farid Boussaid

This paper does not describe a new method; instead, it provides a thorough exploration of an important yet understudied design space related to recent advances in text-to-image synthesis -- specifically, the deep fusion of large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Bingda Tang , Boyang Zheng , Xichen Pan , Sayak Paul , Saining Xie

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have enabled a variety of downstream applications, including style customization, subject-driven personalization, and conditional generation. As T2I models require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Zilan Wang , Junfeng Guo , Jiacheng Zhu , Yiming Li , Heng Huang , Muhao Chen , Zhengzhong Tu

Large pre-trained models have achieved notable success across a range of downstream tasks. However, recent research shows that a type of adversarial attack ($\textit{i.e.,}$ backdoor attack) can manipulate the behavior of machine learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dongliang Guo , Mengxuan Hu , Zihan Guan , Junfeng Guo , Thomas Hartvigsen , Sheng Li

Text-to-image (T2I) research has grown explosively in the past year, owing to the large-scale pre-trained diffusion models and many emerging personalization and editing approaches. Yet, one pain point persists: the text prompt engineering,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Xingqian Xu , Jiayi Guo , Zhangyang Wang , Gao Huang , Irfan Essa , Humphrey Shi

Existing multi-modal image fusion methods fail to address the compound degradations presented in source images, resulting in fusion images plagued by noise, color bias, improper exposure, \textit{etc}. Additionally, these methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Hao Zhang , Lei Cao , Jiayi Ma

Unified autoregressive models (UAMs) are transformer models that generate text as well as image tokens within a single autoregressive pass. Shared parameters and a multimodal vocabulary simplify the training pipeline and facilitate flexible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Tobias Braun , Jonas Henry Grebe , Hossein Shakibania , Anna Rohrbach , Marcus Rohrbach

Recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) models enables high-quality image generation with flexible textual control. To utilize the abundant visual priors in the off-the-shelf T2I models, a series of methods try to invert an image to proper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Zijie Wu , Chaohui Yu , Zhen Zhu , Fan Wang , Xiang Bai