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Neural networks struggle with image classification when biases are learned and misleads correlations, affecting their generalization and performance. Previous methods require attribute labels (e.g. background, color) or utilizes Generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Donggeun Ko , Dongjun Lee , Namjun Park , Wonkyeong Shim , Jaekwang Kim

We present two novel unsupervised methods for eliminating toxicity in text. Our first method combines two recent ideas: (1) guidance of the generation process with small style-conditional language models and (2) use of paraphrasing models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 David Dale , Anton Voronov , Daryna Dementieva , Varvara Logacheva , Olga Kozlova , Nikita Semenov , Alexander Panchenko

Diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art synthesis quality on both visual and audio tasks, and recent works further adapt them to textual data by diffusing on the embedding space. In this paper, we conduct systematic studies of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Zhujin Gao , Junliang Guo , Xu Tan , Yongxin Zhu , Fang Zhang , Jiang Bian , Linli Xu

To reduce the toxic degeneration in a pretrained Language Model (LM), previous work on Language Model detoxification has focused on reducing the toxicity of the generation itself (self-toxicity) without consideration of the context. As a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Jing Qian , Xifeng Yan

While diffusion models have significantly advanced the quality of image generation their capability to accurately and coherently render text within these images remains a substantial challenge. Conventional diffusion-based methods for scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Qilong Zhangli , Jindong Jiang , Di Liu , Licheng Yu , Xiaoliang Dai , Ankit Ramchandani , Guan Pang , Dimitris N. Metaxas , Praveen Krishnan

Scene text editing is a challenging task that involves modifying or inserting specified texts in an image while maintaining its natural and realistic appearance. Most previous approaches to this task rely on style-transfer models that crop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiabao Ji , Guanhua Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Bairu Hou , Zhifei Zhang , Brian Price , Shiyu Chang

Toxic language is one of the major barrier to safe online participation, yet robust mitigation tools are scarce for African languages. This study addresses this critical gap by investigating automatic text detoxification (toxic to neutral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Abayomi O. Agbeyangi

Existing studies have investigated the tendency of autoregressive language models to generate contexts that exhibit undesired biases and toxicity. Various debiasing approaches have been proposed, which are primarily categorized into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Yoon A Park , Frank Rudzicz

Diffusion models excel at generating visually striking content from text but can inadvertently produce undesirable or harmful content when trained on unfiltered internet data. A practical solution is to selectively removing target concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Long Vuong , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

With adversarial or otherwise normal prompts, existing large language models (LLM) can be pushed to generate toxic discourses. One way to reduce the risk of LLMs generating undesired discourses is to alter the training of the LLM. This can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Meng Cao , Mehdi Fatemi , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung , Samira Shabanian

Diffusion models have garnered considerable interest in the field of text generation. Several studies have explored text diffusion models with different structures and applied them to various tasks, including named entity recognition and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Renzhi Wang , Jing Li , Piji Li

There is an ongoing debate about how to moderate toxic speech on social media and the impact of content moderation on online discourse. This paper proposes and validates a methodology for measuring the content-moderation-induced distortions…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mahyar Habibi , Dirk Hovy , Carlo Schwarz

Language models (LMs) can reproduce (or amplify) toxic language seen during training, which poses a risk to their practical application. In this paper, we conduct extensive experiments to study this phenomenon. We analyze the impact of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Canwen Xu , Zexue He , Zhankui He , Julian McAuley

Recent breakthroughs in Large Language Models (LLMs) have revealed remarkable generative capabilities and emerging self-regulatory mechanisms, including self-correction and self-rewarding. However, current detoxification techniques rarely…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Kaituo Zhang , Zhimeng Jiang , Na Zou

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have the ability to build high-quality pictures from text prompts, but they pose safety concerns because they can generate offensive or disturbing imagery when provided with harmful inputs. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chi Zhang , Changjia Zhu , Xiaowen Li , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

With the emergence of diffusion models as a frontline generative model, many researchers have proposed molecule generation techniques with conditional diffusion models. However, the unavoidable discreteness of a molecule makes it difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jinho Chang , Jong Chul Ye

Diffusion models have gained increasing attention for their impressive generation abilities but currently struggle with rendering accurate and coherent text. To address this issue, we introduce TextDiffuser, focusing on generating images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Jingye Chen , Yupan Huang , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Qifeng Chen , Furu Wei

Sentence fusion is the task of joining several independent sentences into a single coherent text. Current datasets for sentence fusion are small and insufficient for training modern neural models. In this paper, we propose a method for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Mor Geva , Eric Malmi , Idan Szpektor , Jonathan Berant

Recent breakthroughs of transformer-based diffusion models, particularly with Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiT) driven models like FLUX and Qwen Image, have facilitated thrilling experiences in text-to-image generation and editing.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Binglei Li , Mengping Yang , Zhiyu Tan , Junping Zhang , Hao Li

Existing text-video retrieval solutions are, in essence, discriminant models focused on maximizing the conditional likelihood, i.e., p(candidates|query). While straightforward, this de facto paradigm overlooks the underlying data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Peng Jin , Hao Li , Zesen Cheng , Kehan Li , Xiangyang Ji , Chang Liu , Li Yuan , Jie Chen