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Motivated by ethical and legal concerns, the scientific community is actively developing methods to limit the misuse of Text-to-Image diffusion models for reproducing copyrighted, violent, explicit, or personal information in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Vitali Petsiuk , Kate Saenko

Text-to-image generative models can produce diverse high-quality images of concepts with a text prompt, which have demonstrated excellent ability in image generation, image translation, etc. We in this work study the problem of synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Gan Sun , Wenqi Liang , Jiahua Dong , Jun Li , Zhengming Ding , Yang Cong

Image editing aims to edit the given synthetic or real image to meet the specific requirements from users. It is widely studied in recent years as a promising and challenging field of Artificial Intelligence Generative Content (AIGC).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Xincheng Shuai , Henghui Ding , Xingjun Ma , Rongcheng Tu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Dacheng Tao

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

Recent advance in text-to-image diffusion models have significantly facilitated the generation of high-quality images, but also raising concerns about the illegal creation of harmful content, such as copyrighted images. Existing concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zihao Wang , Yuxiang Wei , Fan Li , Renjing Pei , Hang Xu , Wangmeng Zuo

During pre-training, the Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models encode factual knowledge into their parameters. These parameterized facts enable realistic image generation, but they may become obsolete over time, thereby misrepresenting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Yili Wang , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

This paper addresses the societal concerns arising from large-scale text-to-image diffusion models for generating potentially harmful or copyrighted content. Existing models rely heavily on internet-crawled data, wherein problematic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Sanghyun Kim , Seohyeon Jung , Balhae Kim , Moonseok Choi , Jinwoo Shin , Juho Lee

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

Generating images from text has become easier because of the scaling of diffusion models and advancements in the field of vision and language. These models are trained using vast amounts of data from the Internet. Hence, they often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

Diffusion-based text-to-image models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating realistic images, but they raise societal and ethical concerns, such as the creation of unsafe content. While concept editing is proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ruipeng Wang , Junfeng Fang , Jiaqi Li , Hao Chen , Jie Shi , Kun Wang , Xiang Wang

Text-to-image (T2I) models are increasingly used in impactful real-life applications. As such, there is a growing need to audit these models to ensure that they generate desirable, task-appropriate images. However, systematically inspecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Salma Abdel Magid , Weiwei Pan , Simon Warchol , Grace Guo , Junsik Kim , Mahia Rahman , Hanspeter Pfister

Text-to-image (T2I) models have rapidly advanced, enabling the generation of high-quality images from text prompts across various domains. However, these models present notable safety concerns, including the risk of generating harmful,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Lijun Li , Zhelun Shi , Xuhao Hu , Bowen Dong , Yiran Qin , Xihui Liu , Lu Sheng , Jing Shao

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generating high-quality images but also raise people's concerns about generating harmful or misleading content. While extensive approaches have been proposed to erase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhihua Tian , Sirun Nan , Ming Xu , Shengfang Zhai , Wenjie Qu , Jian Liu , Ruoxi Jia , Jiaheng Zhang

Text-to-image (T2I) models have raised increasing safety concerns due to their capacity to generate NSFW and other banned objects. To mitigate these risks, safety filters and concept removal techniques have been introduced to block…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Xi Ye , Yiwen Liu , Lina Wang , Run Wang , Geying Yang , Yufei Hou , Jiayi Yu

Diffusion models have emerged as a dominant paradigm for generative modeling across a wide range of domains, including prompt-conditional generation. The vast majority of samplers, however, rely on forward discretization of the reverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Zhenghan Fang , Jian Zheng , Qiaozi Gao , Xiaofeng Gao , Jeremias Sulam

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models, such as Stable Diffusion, has enhanced their capability to synthesize images from textual prompts. However, this progress also raises significant risks of misuse, including the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yu Xie , Chengjie Zeng , Lingyun Zhang , Yanwei Fu

The unlearning problem of deep learning models, once primarily an academic concern, has become a prevalent issue in the industry. The significant advances in text-to-image generation techniques have prompted global discussions on privacy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Eric Zhang , Kai Wang , Xingqian Xu , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

Removing unwanted concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models while maintaining their overall generative quality remains an open challenge. This difficulty is especially pronounced in emerging paradigms, such as Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Daiheng Gao , Shilin Lu , Shaw Walters , Wenbo Zhou , Jiaming Chu , Jie Zhang , Bang Zhang , Mengxi Jia , Jian Zhao , Zhaoxin Fan , Weiming Zhang

Concept erasure techniques for text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models report substantial suppression of sensitive content, yet current evaluation is limited to checking whether the target concept is absent from generated frames, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiwei Xie , Zheng Zhang , Ping Liu

Text-to-Image diffusion models can produce undesirable content that necessitates concept erasure. However, existing methods struggle with under-erasure, leaving residual traces of targeted concepts, or over-erasure, mistakenly eliminating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuyang Xue , Edward Moroshko , Feng Chen , Jingyu Sun , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris