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AI-based systems such as language models have been shown to replicate and even amplify social biases reflected in their training data. Among other questionable behaviors, this can lead to AI-generated text--and text suggestions--that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Connor Baumler , Hal Daumé

Text-to-image generation for personalized identities aims at incorporating the specific identity into images using a text prompt and an identity image. Based on the powerful generative capabilities of DDPMs, many previous works adopt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Jinyu Gu , Haipeng Liu , Meng Wang , Yang Wang

Foundation models pretrained on physiological data such as photoplethysmography (PPG) signals are increasingly used to improve heart rate (HR) prediction across diverse settings. Fine-tuning these models for local deployment is often seen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Lovely Yeswanth Panchumarthi , Saurabh Kataria , Yi Wu , Xiao Hu , Alex Fedorov , Hyunjung Gloria Kwak

Training models with robust group fairness properties is crucial in ethically sensitive application areas such as medical diagnosis. Despite the growing body of work aiming to minimise demographic bias in AI, this problem remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Raman Dutt , Ondrej Bohdal , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

Automated computer vision systems have been applied in many domains including security, law enforcement, and personal devices, but recent reports suggest that these systems may produce biased results, discriminating against people in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Jungseock Joo , Kimmo Kärkkäinen

In this paper, we investigate when and how visual representations learned by two different generative models diverge. Given two text-to-image models, our goal is to discover visual attributes that appear in images generated by one model but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Lisa Dunlap , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

Fairness through Unawareness (FtU) describes the idea that discrimination against demographic groups can be avoided by not considering group membership in the decisions or predictions. This idea has long been criticized in the machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Benedikt Höltgen , Nuria Oliver

The goal of text-to-image synthesis is to generate a visually realistic image that matches a given text description. In practice, the captions annotated by humans for the same image have large variance in terms of contents and the choice of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hui Ye , Xiulong Yang , Martin Takac , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

In this paper, we study performance and fairness on visual and thermal images and expand the assessment to masked synthetic images. Using the SpeakingFace and Thermal-Mask dataset, we propose a process to assess fairness on real images and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Kenneth Lai , Vlad Shmerko , Svetlana Yanushkevich

The text-to-image synthesis by diffusion models has recently shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality images. Although performs well for simple texts, the models may get confused when faced with complex texts that contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chang Yu , Junran Peng , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qi Tian , Zhen Lei

Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models such as Stable Diffusion and Imagen have made significant progress in generating high-resolution images based on text descriptions. However, many generated images still suffer from issues such as…

Developing models with robust group fairness properties is paramount, particularly in ethically sensitive domains such as medical diagnosis. Recent approaches to achieving fairness in machine learning require a substantial amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yuyang Xue , Junyu Yan , Raman Dutt , Fasih Haider , Jingshuai Liu , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

This survey reviews the progress of diffusion models in generating images from text, ~\textit{i.e.} text-to-image diffusion models. As a self-contained work, this survey starts with a brief introduction of how diffusion models work for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chenshuang Zhang , Chaoning Zhang , Mengchun Zhang , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim

Recent progresses on deep discriminative and generative modeling have shown promising results on texture synthesis. However, existing feed-forward based methods trade off generality for efficiency, which suffer from many issues, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-07 Yijun Li , Chen Fang , Jimei Yang , Zhaowen Wang , Xin Lu , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent advancements in text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, show significant demographic biases. Existing de-biasing techniques rely heavily on additional training, which imposes high computational costs and risks of compromising…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Minjun Park , Rahim Entezari , Sungroh Yoon

Text-to-image synthesis aims to automatically generate images according to text descriptions given by users, which is a highly challenging task. The main issues of text-to-image synthesis lie in two gaps: the heterogeneous and homogeneous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Mingkuan Yuan , Yuxin Peng

Text-to-image diffusion models are a class of deep generative models that have demonstrated an impressive capacity for high-quality image generation. However, these models are susceptible to implicit biases that arise from web-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinan Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Yilun Du , Dmitry Kislyuk

Text-to-image models have shown remarkable progress in generating high-quality images from user-provided prompts. Despite this, the quality of these images varies due to the models' sensitivity to human language nuances. With advancements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xinrui Yang , Zhuohan Wang , Anthony Hu

Diffusion models have emerged as a robust framework for various generative tasks, including tabular data synthesis. However, current tabular diffusion models tend to inherit bias in the training dataset and generate biased synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeyu Yang , Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Khadija Zanna , Xiaoxue Yang , Akane Sano

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models have been widely adopted across various industries, yet are criticized for frequently exhibiting societal stereotypes. While a growing body of research has emerged to evaluate and mitigate these biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Megan Smith , Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham , Florian Richter , Laura Crompton , Matthias Uhl , Torsten Schön