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Text-to-video diffusion transformers encode semantic information unevenly across model depth, which constrains effective concept erasure. We identify a representational bottleneck, termed concept-layer topological alignment, under which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

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

While modern generative models such as diffusion-based architectures have enabled impressive creative capabilities, they also raise important safety and ethical risks. These concerns have led to growing interest in concept erasure, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chi Zhang , Jingpu Cheng , Zhixian Wang , Ping Liu

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, their ability to store vast amounts of knowledge raises concerns in scenarios where selective forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gen Li , Yang Xiao , Jie Ji , Kaiyuan Deng , Bo Hui , Linke Guo , Xiaolong Ma

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-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of these models can inadvertently led they to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye

Large-scale text-to-image generative models have shown remarkable ability to synthesize diverse and high-quality images. However, it is still challenging to directly apply these models for editing real images for two reasons. First, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Syed Muhmmad Israr , Feng Zhao

Recent text-to-image models have achieved impressive results in generating high-quality images. However, when tasked with multi-concept generation creating images that contain multiple characters or objects, existing methods often suffer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yang Zhang , Rui Zhang , Xuecheng Nie , Haochen Li , Jikun Chen , Yifan Hao , Xin Zhang , Luoqi Liu , Ling Li

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating images that closely correspond to textual prompts. However, the advancement of T2I diffusion models presents significant risks, as the models could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jie Ren , Kangrui Chen , Yingqian Cui , Shenglai Zeng , Hui Liu , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang , Lingjuan Lyu

A plethora of text-guided image editing methods has recently been developed by leveraging the impressive capabilities of large-scale diffusion-based generative models especially Stable Diffusion. Despite the success of diffusion models in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Qihe Pan , Zhen Zhao , Zicheng Wang , Sifan Long , Yiming Wu , Wei Ji , Haoran Liang , Ronghua Liang

Text-to-image diffusion models have been demonstrated with undesired generation due to unfiltered large-scale training data, such as sexual images and copyrights, necessitating the erasure of undesired concepts. Most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Xiaochuan Jin , Yue Jiang , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Concept erasure in Text-To-Image (T2I) diffusion models is vital for safe content generation, but existing inference-time methods face significant limitations. Feature-correction approaches often cause uncontrolled over-correction, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qinghui Gong

The remarkable image generation capabilities of state-of-the-art diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, can also be misused to spread misinformation and plagiarize copyrighted materials. To mitigate the potential risks associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Qiuyu Tang , Bonor Ayambem , Mooi Choo Chuah , Aparna Bharati

Diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in text-guided image generation. Current methods that leverage the knowledge of these models for image editing either fine-tune them using the input image (e.g., Imagic) or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Zhongping Zhang , Jian Zheng , Jacob Zhiyuan Fang , Bryan A. Plummer

Taking advantage of the many recent advances in deep learning, text-to-image generative models currently have the merit of attracting the general public attention. Two of these models, DALL-E 2 and Imagen, have demonstrated that highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Robin Zbinden

Image Generation models are a trending topic nowadays, with many people utilizing Artificial Intelligence models in order to generate images. There are many such models which, given a prompt of a text, will generate an image which depicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Udaya Shreyas , L. N. Aadarsh

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the photorealistic generation of images from text prompts. Despite the great progress, existing models still struggle to generate compositional multi-concept images naturally,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Hazarapet Tunanyan , Dejia Xu , Shant Navasardyan , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks by producing high-fidelity content from text descriptions. They have also enabled an editing paradigm where concepts can be replaced through text conditioning (e.g., a dog to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

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