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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

While generative models produce high-quality images of concepts learned from a large-scale database, a user often wishes to synthesize instantiations of their own concepts (for example, their family, pets, or items). Can we teach a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Owing to the unrestricted nature of the content in the training data, large text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), are capable of generating images with potentially copyrighted or dangerous content based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Zixuan Ni , Longhui Wei , Jiacheng Li , Siliang Tang , Yueting Zhuang , Qi Tian

Diffusion models, while powerful, can inadvertently generate harmful or undesirable content, raising significant ethical and safety concerns. Recent machine unlearning approaches offer potential solutions but often lack transparency, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Bartosz Cywiński , Kamil Deja

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models excel in generating high-quality images from textual inputs, yet concerns arise as research indicates their tendency to memorize and replicate training data, raising We also addressed the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ruchika Chavhan , Ondrej Bohdal , Yongshuo Zong , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models often inadvertently generate unwanted concepts such as watermarks and unsafe images. These concepts, termed as the "implicit concepts", could be unintentionally learned during training and then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhili Liu , Kai Chen , Yifan Zhang , Jianhua Han , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung , James Kwok

Concept Erasure, which aims to prevent pretrained text-to-image models from generating content associated with semantic-harmful concepts (i.e., target concepts), is getting increased attention. State-of-the-art methods formulate this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hongxu Chen , Zhen Wang , Taoran Mei , Lin Li , Bowei Zhu , Runshi Li , Long Chen

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

Post-hoc unlearning has emerged as a practical mechanism for removing undesirable concepts from large text-to-image diffusion models. However, prior work primarily evaluates unlearning through erasure success; its impact on broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , Ali Aghayari , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Concept erasure, which fine-tunes diffusion models to remove undesired or harmful visual concepts, has become a mainstream approach to mitigating unsafe or illegal image generation in text-to-image models.However, existing removal methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hao Chen , Yiwei Wang , Songze Li

As large-scale diffusion models continue to advance, they excel at producing high-quality images but often generate unwanted content, such as sexually explicit or violent content. Existing methods for concept removal generally guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingyun Zhang , Yu Xie , Yanwei Fu , Ping Chen

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

Text-to-image diffusion models can synthesize high-quality images, but they have various limitations. Here we highlight a common failure mode of these models, namely, generating uncommon concepts and structured concepts like hand palms. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Dvir Samuel , Rami Ben-Ari , Simon Raviv , Nir Darshan , Gal Chechik

Recently, the multimedia community has witnessed the rise of diffusion models trained on large-scale multi-modal data for visual content creation, particularly in the field of text-to-image generation. In this paper, we propose a new task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Jingwen Chen , Yingwei Pan , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Text-to-image models encounter safety issues, including concerns related to copyright and Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content. Despite several methods have been proposed for erasing inappropriate concepts from diffusion models, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chao Gong , Kai Chen , Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Text-to-image models exhibit remarkable capabilities in image generation. However, they also pose safety risks of generating harmful content. A key challenge of existing concept erasure methods is the precise removal of target concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qinqin He , Jiaqi Weng , Jialing Tao , Hui Xue

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models enable photorealistic image generation, but they also risk producing malicious content, such as NSFW images. To mitigate risk, concept erasure methods are studied to facilitate the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ruidong Chen , Honglin Guo , Lanjun Wang , Chenyu Zhang , Weizhi Nie , An-An Liu

With the rapid growth of text-to-image models, a variety of techniques have been suggested to prevent undesirable image generations. Yet, these methods often only protect against specific user prompts and have been shown to allow unsafe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Minh Pham , Kelly O. Marshall , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images, but their reliance on large-scale unlabeled data has raised significant safety and copyright concerns. Efforts to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Yanfei Dong , Yixuan Wu , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi