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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

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have achieved great success in synthesizing high-quality and diverse images given target text prompts. Despite the revolutionary image generation ability, current state-of-the-art models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jingyuan Zhu , Huimin Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Jian Yuan

The rapid expansion of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has raised growing concerns regarding their potential misuse in creating harmful or misleading content. In this paper, we introduce MACE, a finetuning framework for the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shilin Lu , Zilan Wang , Leyang Li , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Text-guided non-rigid editing involves complex edits for input images, such as changing motion or compositions within their surroundings. Since it requires manipulating the input structure, existing methods often struggle with preserving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Yunji Jung , Seokju Lee , Tair Djanibekov , Hyunjung Shim , Jong Chul Ye

Generative models have been widely studied in computer vision. Recently, diffusion models have drawn substantial attention due to the high quality of their generated images. A key desired property of image generative models is the ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Qiucheng Wu , Yujian Liu , Handong Zhao , Ajinkya Kale , Trung Bui , Tong Yu , Zhe Lin , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Despite recent advances in inversion-based editing, text-guided image manipulation remains challenging for diffusion models. The primary bottlenecks include 1) the time-consuming nature of the inversion process; 2) the struggle to balance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Sihan Xu , Yidong Huang , Jiayi Pan , Ziqiao Ma , Joyce Chai

We introduce a novel approach for concept blending in pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, aiming to generate images at the intersection of multiple text prompts. At each time step during diffusion denoising, our algorithm forecasts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Divya Kothandaraman , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized image generation and editing, offering exceptional realism and diversity. Specifically, in the context of diffusion-based editing, where a source image is edited according to a target prompt,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xuan Ju , Ailing Zeng , Yuxuan Bian , Shaoteng Liu , Qiang Xu

The correspondence between input text and the generated image exhibits opacity, wherein minor textual modifications can induce substantial deviations in the generated image. While, text embedding, as the pivotal intermediary between text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hu Yu , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Feng Zhao

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

A significant research effort is focused on exploiting the amazing capacities of pretrained diffusion models for the editing of images.They either finetune the model, or invert the image in the latent space of the pretrained model. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Senmao Li , Joost van de Weijer , Taihang Hu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Qibin Hou , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang , Ming-Ming Cheng

Rare words remain a critical bottleneck for speech-to-text systems. While direct fine-tuning improves recognition of target words, it often incurs high cost, catastrophic forgetting, and limited scalability. To address these challenges, we…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-29 Ruihao Jing , Cheng Gong , Yu Jiang , Boyu Zhu , Shansong Liu , Chi Zhang , Xiao-Lei Zhang , Xuelong Li

We introduce a new setting, Edit Transfer, where a model learns a transformation from just a single source-target example and applies it to a new query image. While text-based methods excel at semantic manipulations through textual prompts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Lan Chen , Qi Mao , Yuchao Gu , Mike Zheng Shou

Multimodal image-text models have shown remarkable performance in the past few years. However, evaluating robustness against distribution shifts is crucial before adopting them in real-world applications. In this work, we investigate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Jielin Qiu , Yi Zhu , Xingjian Shi , Florian Wenzel , Zhiqiang Tang , Ding Zhao , Bo Li , Mu Li

Visual autoregressive (VAR) models have recently emerged as a promising family of generative models, enabling a wide range of downstream vision tasks such as text-guided image editing. By shifting the editing paradigm from noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Tao Xia , Jiawei Liu , Yukun Zhang , Ting Liu , Wei Wang , Lei Zhang

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

We present a simple but effective training-free approach for text-driven image-to-image translation based on a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model. Our goal is to generate an image that aligns with the target task while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Hyunsoo Lee , Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Creative generation is the synthesis of new, surprising, and valuable samples that reflect user intent yet cannot be envisioned in advance. This task aims to extend human imagination, enabling the discovery of visual concepts that exist in…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shelly Golan , Yotam Nitzan , Zongze Wu , Or Patashnik

Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs) offer insights into neural network decision-making by linking human friendly concepts to the model's internal feature extraction process. However, when a new set of CAVs is discovered, they must still be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Laines Schmalwasser , Jakob Gawlikowski , Joachim Denzler , Julia Niebling

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden messages into images such that they survive various manipulations while remaining imperceptible. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing models now enable realistic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Wenkai Fu , Finn Carter , Yue Wang , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang
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