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Machine unlearning for text-to-image diffusion models aims to selectively remove undesirable concepts from pre-trained models without costly retraining. Current unlearning methods share a common weakness: erased concepts return when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Aljalila Aladawi , Mohammed Talha Alam , Fakhri Karray

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

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation, but they also pose safety risks, such as the potential generation of harmful content and copyright violations. The techniques of machine unlearning, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yimeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinghan Jia , Yihua Zhang , Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Mingyi Hong , Ke Ding , Sijia Liu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, their ability to store vast amounts of knowledge raises concerns in scenarios where selective forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gen Li , Yang Xiao , Jie Ji , Kaiyuan Deng , Bo Hui , Linke Guo , Xiaolong Ma

Concept unlearning has emerged as a promising direction for reducing the risks of harmful content generation in text-to-image diffusion models by selectively erasing undesirable concepts from a model's parameters. Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Duc Hao Pham , Van Duy Truong , Duy Khanh Dinh , Tien Cuong Nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Tuan Anh Bui

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos. However, their capability to produce explicit or harmful content introduces new challenges related to misuse and potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaoyu Ye , Songjie Cheng , Yongtao Wang , Yajiao Xiong , Yishen Li

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

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality visual content from textual descriptions. However, since these models are trained on large-scale internet data, they inevitably learn undesirable concepts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anh Bui , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

While large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image-generation capabilities, there are significant concerns about their potential misuse for generating unsafe content, violating copyright, and perpetuating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ruchika Chavhan , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs), represented by Stable Diffusion, which generate highly realistic images based on textual input, have been widely used, but their flexibility also makes them prone to misuse for producing harmful or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Chaoshuo Zhang , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Le Yang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

The technological advancements in diffusion models (DMs) have demonstrated unprecedented capabilities in text-to-image generation and are widely used in diverse applications. However, they have also raised significant societal concerns,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Yihua Zhang , Chongyu Fan , Yimeng Zhang , Yuguang Yao , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Gaoyuan Zhang , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella , Xiaoming Liu , Sijia Liu

Machine unlearning (MU) is a promising cost-effective method to cleanse undesired information (generated concepts, biases, or patterns) from foundational diffusion models. While MU is orders of magnitude less costly than retraining a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Eric Yeats , Darryl Hannan , Henry Kvinge , Timothy Doster , Scott Mahan

The recent rapid growth of visual generative models trained on vast web-scale datasets has created significant tension with data privacy regulations and copyright laws, such as GDPR's ``Right to be Forgotten.'' This necessitates machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Naveen George , Naoki Murata , Yuhta Takida , Konda Reddy Mopuri , Yuki Mitsufuji

With the rapid progress of diffusion-based content generation, significant efforts are being made to unlearn harmful or copyrighted concepts from pretrained diffusion models (DMs) to prevent potential model misuse. However, it is observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongcheng Gao , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Taihang Hu , Zhijie Deng , Min Lin

Machine unlearning--the ability to remove designated concepts from a pre-trained model--has advanced rapidly, particularly for text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods typically assume that unlearning requests arrive all at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Justin Lee , Zheda Mai , Jinsu Yoo , Chongyu Fan , Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao

Image Generation models are a trending topic nowadays, with many people utilizing Artificial Intelligence models in order to generate images. There are many such models which, given a prompt of a text, will generate an image which depicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Udaya Shreyas , L. N. Aadarsh

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

Large-scale diffusion models, known for their impressive image generation capabilities, have raised concerns among researchers regarding social impacts, such as the imitation of copyrighted artistic styles. In response, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

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

Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Divya Kothandaraman , Jaclyn Pytlarz
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