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Large pre-trained language models are often trained on large volumes of internet data, some of which may contain toxic or abusive language. Consequently, language models encode toxic information, which makes the real-world usage of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Andrew Wang , Mohit Sudhakar , Yangfeng Ji

The field of natural language generation has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, including the development of controllable text generation techniques. However, controlling the attributes of the generated text remains a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tong Niu , Caiming Xiong , Semih Yavuz , Yingbo Zhou

Large-scale image generation models, with impressive quality made possible by the vast amount of data available on the Internet, raise social concerns that these models may generate harmful or copyrighted content. The biases and harmfulness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Sanghyun Kim , Seohyeon Jung , Balhae Kim , Moonseok Choi , Jinwoo Shin , Juho Lee

In this paper, we propose TextDestroyer, the first training- and annotation-free method for scene text destruction using a pre-trained diffusion model. Existing scene text removal models require complex annotation and retraining, and may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Mengcheng Li , Fei Chao

In text generation, models that generate text from scratch one token at a time are currently the dominant paradigm. Despite being performant, these models lack the ability to revise existing text, which limits their usability in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Machel Reid , Vincent J. Hellendoorn , Graham Neubig

Image generation has recently seen tremendous advances, with diffusion models allowing to synthesize convincing images for a large variety of text prompts. In this article, we propose DiffEdit, a method to take advantage of text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Guillaume Couairon , Jakob Verbeek , Holger Schwenk , Matthieu Cord

Text detoxification is a style transfer task of creating neutral versions of toxic texts. In this paper, we use the concept of text editing to build a two-step tagging-based detoxification model using a parallel corpus of Russian texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Ilya Gusev

As social-media platforms emerge and evolve faster than the regulations meant to oversee them, automated detoxification might serve as a timely tool for moderators to enforce safe discourse at scale. We here describe our submission to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Trung Duc Anh Dang , Ferdinando Pio D'Elia

Scene text editing aims to modify or add texts on images while ensuring text fidelity and overall visual quality consistent with the background. Recent methods are primarily built on UNet-based diffusion models, which have improved scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Rui Lan , Yancheng Bai , Xu Duan , Mingxing Li , Dongyang Jin , Ryan Xu , Dong Nie , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

The diffusion model has been proven a powerful generative model in recent years, yet remains a challenge in generating visual text. Several methods alleviated this issue by incorporating explicit text position and content as guidance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Jingye Chen , Yupan Huang , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Qifeng Chen , Furu Wei

Conditional diffusion models have exhibited superior performance in high-fidelity text-guided visual generation and editing. Nevertheless, prevailing text-guided visual diffusion models primarily focus on incorporating text-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Ling Yang , Zhilong Zhang , Zhaochen Yu , Jingwei Liu , Minkai Xu , Stefano Ermon , Bin Cui

Textual image generation spans diverse fields like advertising, education, product packaging, social media, information visualization, and branding. Despite recent strides in language-guided image synthesis using diffusion models, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Shubham Paliwal , Arushi Jain , Monika Sharma , Vikram Jamwal , Lovekesh Vig

We present UniDetox, a universally applicable method designed to mitigate toxicity across various large language models (LLMs). Previous detoxification methods are typically model-specific, addressing only individual models or model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Huimin Lu , Masaru Isonuma , Junichiro Mori , Ichiro Sakata

Current text recognition systems, including those for handwritten scripts and scene text, have relied heavily on image synthesis and augmentation, since it is difficult to realize real-world complexity and diversity through collecting and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Yuanzhi Zhu , Zhaohai Li , Tianwei Wang , Mengchao He , Cong Yao

Text detoxification has the potential to mitigate the harms of toxicity by rephrasing text to remove offensive meaning, but subtle toxicity remains challenging to tackle. We introduce MaRCo, a detoxification algorithm that combines…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Skyler Hallinan , Alisa Liu , Yejin Choi , Maarten Sap

Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

This paper introduces UnDiff, a diffusion probabilistic model capable of solving various speech inverse tasks. Being once trained for speech waveform generation in an unconditional manner, it can be adapted to different tasks including…

Interpretations of a single sentence can vary, particularly when its context is lost. This paper aims to simulate how readers perceive content with varying toxicity levels by generating diverse interpretations of out-of-context sentences.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Maria Mihaela Trusca , Liesbeth Allein

Model selection for a given target task can be costly, as it may entail extensive annotation of the quality of outputs of different models. We introduce DiffUse, an efficient method to make an informed decision between candidate text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Shir Ashury-Tahan , Ariel Gera , Benjamin Sznajder , Leshem Choshen , Liat Ein-Dor , Eyal Shnarch

Diffusion models have gained attention for image editing yielding impressive results in text-to-image tasks. On the downside, one might notice that generated images of stable diffusion models suffer from deteriorated details. This pitfall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Joshua Santoso , Christian Simon , Williem