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Erasing concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has become increasingly crucial due to the growing concerns over copyright infringement, offensive content, and privacy violations. In scalable applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ouxiang Li , Yuan Wang , Xinting Hu , Houcheng Jiang , Yanbin Hao , Fuli Feng

Erasing specific concepts from text-to-image diffusion models is essential for avoiding the generation of copyrighted and explicit content. Closed-form concept erasure methods offer a fast alternative to backpropagation-based techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nicola Novello , Andrea M. Tonello

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, uncontrolled reproduction of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful imagery poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated the underlying risk of generating various unwanted content, such as sexual elements. To address this issue, the task of concept erasure has been introduced, aiming to erase any undesired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Xiaochuan Jin , Yueming Lyu , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Concept erasure is extensively utilized in image generation to prevent text-to-image models from generating undesired content. Existing methods can effectively erase narrow concepts that are specific and concrete, such as distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuze Cai , Jiahao Lu , Hongxiang Shi , Yichao Zhou , Hong Lu

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models aims to disable pre-trained diffusion models from generating images related to a target concept. To perform reliable concept erasure, the properties of robustness and locality are desirable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Chi-Pin Huang , Kai-Po Chang , Chung-Ting Tsai , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating the risk of harmful content generation in diffusion models by selectively unlearning undesirable concepts. The common principle of previous works to remove a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Long Vuong , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Junae Kim , Dinh Phung

Remarkable progress in text-to-image diffusion models has brought a major concern about potentially generating images on inappropriate or trademarked concepts. Concept erasing has been investigated with the goals of deleting target concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Seunggyu Lee , Dong Un Kang , Se Young Chun

In concept erasure, a model is modified to selectively prevent it from generating a target concept. Despite the rapid development of new methods, it remains unclear how thoroughly these approaches remove the target concept from the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kevin Lu , Nicky Kriplani , Rohit Gandikota , Minh Pham , David Bau , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Studies have been conducted to prevent specific concepts from being generated from pretrained text-to-image generative models, achieving concept erasure in various ways. However, the performance evaluation of these studies is still largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image generation capabilities, but also pose risks in privacy and fairness by memorizing sensitive concepts or perpetuating biases. We propose a novel \textbf{concept erasure} method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wang , Ze Niu , Dacheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Concept erasure techniques have recently gained significant attention for their potential to remove unwanted concepts from text-to-image models. While these methods often demonstrate promising results in controlled settings, their…

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating high-quality, diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, their ability to reproduce copyrighted styles, sensitive imagery, and harmful content raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Changhoon Kim , Yanjun Qi

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation capabilities, yet they raise significant concerns regarding safety, copyright, and ethical implications. Existing concept erasure methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yi Sun , Xinhao Zhong , Hongyan Li , Yimin Zhou , Junhao Li , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang

Concerns about text-to-image (T2I) generative models infringing on privacy, copyright, and safety have led to the development of concept erasure techniques (CETs). The goal of an effective CET is to prohibit the generation of undesired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shaswati Saha , Sourajit Saha , Manas Gaur , Tejas Gokhale

Pre-trained language models have achieved remarkable success across diverse applications but remain susceptible to spurious, concept-driven correlations that impair robustness and fairness. In this work, we introduce CURE, a novel and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Aysenur Kocak , Shuo Yang , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate undesired or unsafe content in diffusion models, yet existing methods still face significant limitations. While training-based methods are effective, their high computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuhao Sun , Lingyun Yu , Haoxiang Xu , Fengyuan Miao , Zhuoer Xu , Hongtao Xie

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented success in image generation but pose increasing risks in terms of privacy, fairness, and security. A growing demand exists to \emph{erase} sensitive or harmful concepts (e.g., NSFW content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wen , Le Ku , Daheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Removing unwanted concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models while maintaining their overall generative quality remains an open challenge. This difficulty is especially pronounced in emerging paradigms, such as Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daiheng Gao , Shilin Lu , Shaw Walters , Wenbo Zhou , Jiaming Chu , Jie Zhang , Bang Zhang , Mengxi Jia , Jian Zhao , Zhaoxin Fan , Weiming Zhang

Diffusion-based text-to-image models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating realistic images, but they raise societal and ethical concerns, such as the creation of unsafe content. While concept editing is proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ruipeng Wang , Junfeng Fang , Jiaqi Li , Hao Chen , Jie Shi , Kun Wang , Xiang Wang