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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 inherent ambiguity in defining visual concepts poses significant challenges for modern generative models, such as the diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models, in accurately learning concepts from a single image. Existing methods lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fernando Julio Cendra , Kai Han

Despite the impressive capabilities of generating images, text-to-image diffusion models are susceptible to producing undesirable outputs such as NSFW content and copyrighted artworks. To address this issue, recent studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Chang Xu

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models seeks to remove undesired concepts while preserving overall generative capability. Localized erasure methods aim to restrict edits to the spatial region occupied by the target concept.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Zhuan Shi , Alireza Dehghanpour Farashah , Rik de Vries , Golnoosh Farnadi

Concept erasure aims to remove harmful, inappropriate, or copyrighted content from text-to-image diffusion models while preserving non-target semantics. However, existing methods either rely on costly fine-tuning or apply coarse semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ning Han , Zhenyu Ge , Feng Han , Yuhua Sun , Chengqing Li , Jingjing Chen

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models can generate high-fidelity images with powerful compositional ability. However, these models are typically trained on an enormous amount of Internet data, often containing copyrighted material,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Sheng-Yu Wang , Eli Shechtman , Richard Zhang , Jun-Yan Zhu

Recent advancements in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have enabled many applications in image editing. However, none of these methods have been able to edit the layout of single existing images. To address this gap, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-23 Zhiyuan Zhang , Zhitong Huang , Jing Liao

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

Concept erasure aims to suppress sensitive content in diffusion models, but recent studies show that erased concepts can still be reawakened, revealing vulnerabilities in erasure methods. Existing reawakening methods mainly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mengyu Sun , Ziyuan Yang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Junxu Liu , Haibo Hu , Yi Zhang

The widespread adoption of text-to-image (T2I) generation has raised concerns about privacy, bias, and copyright violations. Concept erasure techniques offer a promising solution by selectively removing undesired concepts from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lu Wei , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant advancements in generating high-quality, diverse images from text prompts. However, the inherent limitations of textual signals often prevent these models from fully capturing specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ziqiang Li , Jun Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu , Zechao Li

Text-to-image diffusion has attracted vast attention due to its impressive image-generation capabilities. However, when it comes to human-centric text-to-image generation, particularly in the context of faces and hands, the results often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jie Zhu , Yixiong Chen , Mingyu Ding , Ping Luo , Leye Wang , Jingdong Wang

The remarkable development of text-to-image generation models has raised notable security concerns, such as the infringement of portrait rights and the generation of inappropriate content. Concept erasure has been proposed to remove the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yufan Liu , Jinyang An , Wanqian Zhang , Ming Li , Dayan Wu , Jingzi Gu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

Recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion models have brought them to the public spotlight, becoming widely accessible and embraced by everyday users. However, these models have been shown to generate harmful content such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Anubhav Jain , Yuya Kobayashi , Takashi Shibuya , Yuhta Takida , Nasir Memon , Julian Togelius , Yuki Mitsufuji

Removing unwanted concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models while maintaining their overall generative quality remains an open challenge. This difficulty is especially pronounced in emerging paradigms, such as Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daiheng Gao , Shilin Lu , Shaw Walters , Wenbo Zhou , Jiaming Chu , Jie Zhang , Bang Zhang , Mengxi Jia , Jian Zhao , Zhaoxin Fan , Weiming Zhang

Recent research has seen significant interest in methods for concept removal and targeted forgetting in text-to-image diffusion models. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive white-box analysis showing the vulnerabilities in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Aakash Sen Sharma , Niladri Sarkar , Vikram Chundawat , Ankur A Mali , Murari Mandal

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

The rapid progress of visual autoregressive (VAR) models has brought new opportunities for text-to-image generation, but also heightened safety concerns. Existing concept erasure techniques, primarily designed for diffusion models, fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinhao Zhong , Yimin Zhou , Zhiqi Zhang , Junhao Li , Yi Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Xuan Wang , Ke Xu

Face editing modifies the appearance of face, which plays a key role in customization and enhancement of personal images. Although much work have achieved remarkable success in text-driven face editing, they still face significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Xin Zhang , Siting Huang , Xiangyang Luo , Yifan Xie , Weijiang Yu , Heng Chang , Fei Ma , Fei Yu

Existing makeup techniques often require designing multiple models to handle different inputs and align features across domains for different makeup tasks, e.g., beauty filter, makeup transfer, and makeup removal, leading to increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Bo-Kai Ruan , Hong-Han Shuai