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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

The issue of generative pretraining for vision models has persisted as a long-standing conundrum. At present, the text-to-image (T2I) diffusion model demonstrates remarkable proficiency in generating high-definition images matching textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Qiang Wan , Zilong Huang , Bingyi Kang , Jiashi Feng , Li Zhang

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

Text-to-Image (T2I) models excel at synthesizing concepts such as nouns, appearances, and styles. To enable customized content creation based on a few example images of a concept, methods such as Textual Inversion and DreamBooth invert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Saman Motamed , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

We introduce Diff-Tracker, a novel approach for the challenging unsupervised visual tracking task leveraging the pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model. Our main idea is to leverage the rich knowledge encapsulated within the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhengbo Zhang , Li Xu , Duo Peng , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

Personalized text-to-image generation aims to synthesize images of user-provided concepts in diverse contexts. Despite recent progress in multi-concept personalization, most are limited to object concepts and struggle to customize abstract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Weizhi Zhong , Huan Yang , Zheng Liu , Huiguo He , Zijian He , Xuesong Niu , Di Zhang , Guanbin Li

Text-driven diffusion models have significantly advanced the image editing performance by using text prompts as inputs. One crucial step in text-driven image editing is to invert the original image into a latent noise code conditioned on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ruibin Li , Ruihuang Li , Song Guo , Lei Zhang

Image classifiers play a critical role in detecting diseases in medical imaging and identifying anomalies in manufacturing processes. However, their predefined behaviors after extensive training make post hoc model editing difficult,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jaeik Kim , Jaeyoung Do

Text-to-image diffusion models often make implicit assumptions about the world when generating images. While some assumptions are useful (e.g., the sky is blue), they can also be outdated, incorrect, or reflective of social biases present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Hadas Orgad , Bahjat Kawar , Yonatan Belinkov

Text-to-image models offer unprecedented freedom to guide creation through natural language. Yet, it is unclear how such freedom can be exercised to generate images of specific unique concepts, modify their appearance, or compose them in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Rinon Gal , Yuval Alaluf , Yuval Atzmon , Or Patashnik , Amit H. Bermano , Gal Chechik , Daniel Cohen-Or

Diffusion models have transformed image generation, yet controlling their outputs to reliably erase undesired concepts remains challenging. Existing approaches usually require task-specific training and struggle to generalize across both…

How can we effectively unlearn selected concepts from pre-trained generative foundation models without resorting to extensive retraining? This research introduces `continual unlearning', a novel paradigm that enables the targeted removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

In text-to-image person retrieval tasks, the diversity of natural language expressions and the implicitness of visual semantics often lead to the problem of Expression Drift, where semantically equivalent texts exhibit significant feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chao Yuan , Yujian Zhao , Haoxuan Xu , Guanglin Niu

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable performance in image synthesis, while the text interface does not always provide fine-grained control over certain image factors. For instance, changing a single token in the text can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Chen Wu , Fernando De la Torre

The goal of data attribution for text-to-image models is to identify the training images that most influence the generation of a new image. Influence is defined such that, for a given output, if a model is retrained from scratch without the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Sheng-Yu Wang , Aaron Hertzmann , Alexei A. Efros , Jun-Yan Zhu , Richard Zhang

As Text-to-Image models continue to evolve, so does the risk of generating unsafe, copyrighted, or privacy-violating content. Existing safety interventions - ranging from training data curation and model fine-tuning to inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shristi Das Biswas , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

Recent progress in large pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) has reached state-of-the-art performance on several object detection benchmarks and boasts strong zero-shot capabilities, but for optimal performance on specific targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Frank Ruis , Gertjan Burghouts , Hugo Kuijf

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the domain of text-guided image generation and, more recently, in text-guided image editing. A commonly adopted strategy for editing real images involves inverting the diffusion process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wonjun Kang , Kevin Galim , Hyung Il Koo