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Evaluating diffusion-based image-editing models is a crucial task in the field of Generative AI. Specifically, it is imperative to assess their capacity to execute diverse editing tasks while preserving the image content and realism. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Stefan Stefanache , Lluís Pastor Pérez , Julen Costa Watanabe , Ernesto Sanchez Tejedor , Thomas Hofmann , Enis Simsar

The powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models have raised growing privacy and safety concerns regarding generating sensitive or undesired content. In response, machine unlearning (MU) -- commonly referred to as concept erasure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinwen Cheng , Jingyuan Zhang , Zhehao Huang , Yingwen Wu , Xiaolin Huang

Recent advances in diffusion transformers have shown remarkable generalization in visual synthesis, yet most dense perception methods still rely on text-to-image (T2I) generators designed for stochastic generation. We revisit this paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Yiqing Shi , Yiren Song , Mike Zheng Shou

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation capabilities, yet they raise significant concerns regarding safety, copyright, and ethical implications. Existing concept erasure methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yi Sun , Xinhao Zhong , Hongyan Li , Yimin Zhou , Junhao Li , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang

Training multimodal generative models on large, uncurated datasets can result in users being exposed to harmful, unsafe and controversial or culturally-inappropriate outputs. While model editing has been proposed to remove or filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Mubarak Shah , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Diffusion models (DMs) have recently gained attention with state-of-the-art performance in text-to-image synthesis. Abiding by the tradition in deep learning, DMs are trained and evaluated on the images with fixed sizes. However, users are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Zhiyu Jin , Xuli Shen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Although diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative capabilities, existing style transfer techniques often struggle to maintain identity while achieving high-quality stylization. This limitation becomes particularly critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohammad Ali Rezaei , Helia Hajikazem , Saeed Khanehgir , Mahdi Javanmardi

State-of-the-art Text-to-Image models like Stable Diffusion and DALLE$\cdot$2 are revolutionizing how people generate visual content. At the same time, society has serious concerns about how adversaries can exploit such models to generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Yiting Qu , Xinyue Shen , Xinlei He , Michael Backes , Savvas Zannettou , Yang Zhang

The recent proliferation of large-scale text-to-image models has led to growing concerns that such models may be misused to generate harmful, misleading, and inappropriate content. Motivated by this issue, we derive a technique inspired by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Alvin Heng , Harold Soh

The traditional image inpainting task aims to restore corrupted regions by referencing surrounding background and foreground. However, the object erasure task, which is in increasing demand, aims to erase objects and generate harmonious…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Fan Li , Zixiao Zhang , Yi Huang , Jianzhuang Liu , Renjing Pei , Bin Shao , Songcen Xu

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have enabled the generation of diverse and high-quality images. While impressive, the images often fall short of depicting subtle details and are susceptible to errors due to ambiguity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Idan Schwartz , Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson , Hila Chefer , Ryan Cotterell , Serge Belongie , Lior Wolf , Sagie Benaim

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models often inadvertently generate unwanted concepts such as watermarks and unsafe images. These concepts, termed as the "implicit concepts", could be unintentionally learned during training and then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhili Liu , Kai Chen , Yifan Zhang , Jianhua Han , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung , James Kwok

Text-to-image diffusion models produce impressive results but are frustrating tools for artists who desire fine-grained control. For example, a common use case is to create images of a specific instance in novel contexts, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Shengqu Cai , Eric Chan , Yunzhi Zhang , Leonidas Guibas , Jiajun Wu , Gordon Wetzstein

The success of diffusion models has raised concerns about the generation of unsafe or harmful content, prompting concept erasure approaches that fine-tune modules to suppress specific concepts while preserving general generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jiahang Tu , Ye Li , Yiming Wu , Hanbin Zhao , Chao Zhang , Hui Qian

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality images, yet their tendency to reproduce undesirable concepts, such as NSFW content, copyrighted styles, or specific objects, poses growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhiqi Zhang , Xinhao Zhong , Yi Sun , Shuoyang Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Xuan Wang

Existing concept erasure methods for text-to-image diffusion models commonly rely on fixed anchor strategies, which often lead to critical issues such as concept re-emergence and erosion. To address this, we conduct causal tracing to reveal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Tong Zhang , Ru Zhang , Jianyi Liu , Zhen Yang , Gongshen Liu

We present a novel approach to leverage prior knowledge encapsulated in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models for blind super-resolution (SR). Specifically, by employing our time-aware encoder, we can achieve promising restoration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Jianyi Wang , Zongsheng Yue , Shangchen Zhou , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Chen Change Loy

As text-to-image diffusion models grow increasingly prevalent, the ability to remove specific concepts-mostly explicit content and many copyrighted characters or styles-has become essential for safety and compliance. Existing unlearning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Junyeong Ahn , Seojin Yoon , Sungyong Baik

Owing to the unrestricted nature of the content in the training data, large text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), are capable of generating images with potentially copyrighted or dangerous content based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zixuan Ni , Longhui Wei , Jiacheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Qi Tian

The generative AI revolution has recently expanded to videos. Nevertheless, current state-of-the-art video models are still lagging behind image models in terms of visual quality and user control over the generated content. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Michal Geyer , Omer Bar-Tal , Shai Bagon , Tali Dekel