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Existing text-to-image diffusion models struggle to synthesize realistic images given dense captions, where each text prompt provides a detailed description for a specific image region. To address this, we propose DenseDiffusion, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Yunji Kim , Jiyoung Lee , Jin-Hwa Kim , Jung-Woo Ha , Jun-Yan Zhu

Learning-based Text-to-Image (TTI) models like Stable Diffusion have revolutionized the way visual content is generated in various domains. However, recent research has shown that nonnegligible social bias exists in current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ruifei He , Chuhui Xue , Haoru Tan , Wenqing Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Text-to-image models are increasingly popular and impactful, yet concerns regarding their safety and fairness remain. This study investigates the ability of ten popular Stable Diffusion models to generate harmful images, including NSFW,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Matthias Schneider , Thilo Hagendorff

Bias discovery is critical for black-box generative models, especiall text-to-image (TTI) models. Existing works predominantly focus on output-level demographic distributions, which do not necessarily guarantee concept representations to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Xujun Che , Depeng Xu , Cori Faklaris , Xi Niu , Shuhan Yuan

Text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced creative content generation, yet their reliance on large uncurated datasets often reproduces societal biases. We present FairT2I, a training-free and interactive framework grounded in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinya Sakurai , Yuki Koyama , Issei Sato

Natural language often contains ambiguities that can lead to misinterpretation and miscommunication. While humans can handle ambiguities effectively by asking clarifying questions and/or relying on contextual cues and common-sense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Ninareh Mehrabi , Palash Goyal , Apurv Verma , Jwala Dhamala , Varun Kumar , Qian Hu , Kai-Wei Chang , Richard Zemel , Aram Galstyan , Rahul Gupta

With the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) possessing increasingly impressive capabilities, a number of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have been proposed to augment LLMs with visual inputs. Such models condition generated text on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Phillip Howard , Kathleen C. Fraser , Anahita Bhiwandiwalla , Svetlana Kiritchenko

Diffusion-based models have gained significant popularity for text-to-image generation due to their exceptional image-generation capabilities. A risk with these models is the potential generation of inappropriate content, such as biased or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hang Li , Chengzhi Shen , Philip Torr , Volker Tresp , Jindong Gu

Several studies have raised awareness about social biases in image generative models, demonstrating their predisposition towards stereotypes and imbalances. This paper contributes to this growing body of research by introducing an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yankun Wu , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

With the growing adoption of Text-to-Image (TTI) systems, the social biases of these models have come under increased scrutiny. Herein we conduct a systematic investigation of one such source of bias for diffusion models: embedding spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sahil Kuchlous , Marvin Li , Jeffrey G. Wang

Text-to-image models are known to propagate social biases. For example, when prompted to generate images of people in certain professions, these models tend to systematically generate specific genders or ethnicities. In this paper, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Guorun Wang , Lucia Specia

While vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable performance improvements recently, there is growing evidence that these models also posses harmful biases with respect to social attributes such as gender and race. Prior studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Phillip Howard , Avinash Madasu , Tiep Le , Gustavo Lujan Moreno , Vasudev Lal

Diffusion models have gained tremendous success in text-to-image generation, yet still lag behind with visual understanding tasks, an area dominated by autoregressive vision-language models. We propose a large-scale and fully end-to-end…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Zijie Li , Henry Li , Yichun Shi , Amir Barati Farimani , Yuval Kluger , Linjie Yang , Peng Wang

Recently, there has been significant progress in the development of large models. Following the success of ChatGPT, numerous language models have been introduced, demonstrating remarkable performance. Similar advancements have also been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Tianyi Zhang , Zheng Wang , Jing Huang , Mohiuddin Muhammad Tasnim , Wei Shi

In high dimensional settings, density estimation algorithms rely crucially on their inductive bias. Despite recent empirical success, the inductive bias of deep generative models is not well understood. In this paper we propose a framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-09 Shengjia Zhao , Hongyu Ren , Arianna Yuan , Jiaming Song , Noah Goodman , Stefano Ermon

Text-to-image diffusion models, which are theoretically equivalent to score-based generative models, generate images through a multi-step denoising process guided by text embeddings extracted from pretrained vision-language models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Seung Hyuk Lee , Songkuk Kim

This work presents a novel strategy to measure bias in text-to-image models. Using paired prompts that specify gender and vaguely reference an object (e.g. "a man/woman holding an item") we can examine whether certain objects are associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Harvey Mannering

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

In this paper, we present an empirical study introducing a nuanced evaluation framework for text-to-image (T2I) generative models, applied to human image synthesis. Our framework categorizes evaluations into two distinct groups: first,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Muxi Chen , Yi Liu , Jian Yi , Changran Xu , Qiuxia Lai , Hongliang Wang , Tsung-Yi Ho , Qiang Xu

Text-to-image generation models~(e.g., Stable Diffusion) have achieved significant advancements, enabling the creation of high-quality and realistic images based on textual descriptions. Prompt inversion, the task of identifying the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Mingzhe Li , Kejing Xia , Gehao Zhang , Zhenting Wang , Guanhong Tao , Siqi Pan , Juan Zhai , Shiqing Ma