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Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-quality and diverse images based on text prompts. However, despite recent advances, these models are still prone to generating unsafe images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Jiangweizhi Peng , Zhiwei Tang , Gaowen Liu , Charles Fleming , Mingyi Hong

Text-to-Image synthesis is the task of generating an image according to a specific text description. Generative Adversarial Networks have been considered the standard method for image synthesis virtually since their introduction. Denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Konstantina Nikolaidou , George Retsinas , Vincent Christlein , Mathias Seuret , Giorgos Sfikas , Elisa Barney Smith , Hamam Mokayed , Marcus Liwicki

As large-scale diffusion models continue to advance, they excel at producing high-quality images but often generate unwanted content, such as sexually explicit or violent content. Existing methods for concept removal generally guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingyun Zhang , Yu Xie , Yanwei Fu , Ping Chen

Diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models enable high-quality image generation but also pose significant risks of misuse, particularly in producing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content. While prior detection methods have focused on filtering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Fan Yang , Yihao Huang , Jiayi Zhu , Ling Shi , Geguang Pu , Jin Song Dong , Kailong Wang

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

Text detoxification is a conditional text generation task aiming to remove offensive content from toxic text. It is highly useful for online forums and social media, where offensive content is frequently encountered. Intuitively, there are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Griffin Floto , Mohammad Mahdi Abdollah Pour , Parsa Farinneya , Zhenwei Tang , Ali Pesaranghader , Manasa Bharadwaj , Scott Sanner

Discrete diffusion models are a class of generative models that construct sequences by progressively denoising samples from a categorical noise distribution. Beyond their rapidly growing ability to generate coherent natural language, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Michael Cardei , Jacob K Christopher , Thomas Hartvigsen , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ferdinando Fioretto

While generative models produce high-quality images of concepts learned from a large-scale database, a user often wishes to synthesize instantiations of their own concepts (for example, their family, pets, or items). Can we teach a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

Copyright law confers upon creators the exclusive rights to reproduce, distribute, and monetize their creative works. However, recent progress in text-to-image generation has introduced formidable challenges to copyright enforcement. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Rui Ma , Qiang Zhou , Yizhu Jin , Daquan Zhou , Bangjun Xiao , Xiuyu Li , Yi Qu , Aishani Singh , Kurt Keutzer , Jingtong Hu , Xiaodong Xie , Zhen Dong , Shanghang Zhang , Shiji Zhou

Text-guided diffusion models have shown superior performance in image/video generation and editing. While few explorations have been performed in 3D scenarios. In this paper, we discuss three fundamental and interesting problems on this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Gang Li , Heliang Zheng , Chaoyue Wang , Chang Li , Changwen Zheng , Dacheng Tao

Despite many attempts to leverage pre-trained text-to-image models (T2I) like Stable Diffusion (SD) for controllable image editing, producing good predictable results remains a challenge. Previous approaches have focused on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Sherry X. Chen , Yaron Vaxman , Elad Ben Baruch , David Asulin , Aviad Moreshet , Kuo-Chin Lien , Misha Sra , Pradeep Sen

Recent diffusion distillation methods have achieved remarkable progress, enabling high-quality ${\sim}4$-step sampling for large-scale text-conditional image and video diffusion models. However, further reducing the number of sampling steps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Nikita Starodubcev , Ilya Drobyshevskiy , Denis Kuznedelev , Artem Babenko , Dmitry Baranchuk

The personalized text-to-image generation has rapidly advanced with the emergence of Stable Diffusion. Existing methods, which typically fine-tune models using embedded identifiers, often struggle with insufficient stylization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Anran Yu , Wei Feng , Yaochen Zhang , Xiang Li , Lei Meng , Lei Wu , Xiangxu Meng

Learning-based Text-to-Image (TTI) models like Stable Diffusion have revolutionized the way visual content is generated in various domains. However, recent research has shown that nonnegligible social bias exists in current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ruifei He , Chuhui Xue , Haoru Tan , Wenqing Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Diffusion Models~(DMs) have emerged as the dominant approach in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), owing to their remarkable performance in tasks such as text-to-image synthesis. However, practical DMs, such as stable diffusion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Xuhui Fan , Zhangkai Wu , Hongyu Wu

Text-to-image models can generate harmful images when presented with unsafe prompts, posing significant safety and societal risks. Alignment methods aim to modify these models to ensure they generate only non-harmful images, even when…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yuepeng Hu , Zhengyuan Jiang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong

Images generated by diffusion models like Stable Diffusion are increasingly widespread. Recent works and even lawsuits have shown that these models are prone to replicating their training data, unbeknownst to the user. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Gowthami Somepalli , Vasu Singla , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Recently, text-to-image diffusion models have been widely used for style mimicry and personalized customization through methods such as DreamBooth and Textual Inversion. This has raised concerns about intellectual property protection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Yanjie Li , Wenxuan Zhang , Xinqi Lyu , Yihao Liu , Bin Xiao

Text-driven diffusion-based video editing presents a unique challenge not encountered in image editing literature: establishing real-world motion. Unlike existing video editing approaches, here we focus on score distillation sampling to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Hyeonho Jeong , Jinho Chang , Geon Yeong Park , Jong Chul Ye

The rise of text-to-image (T2I) models has increasingly raised concerns regarding the generation of risky content, such as sexual, violent, and copyright-protected images, highlighting the need for effective safeguards within the models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Chenyu Zhang