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While generative models have made significant advancements in recent years, they also raise concerns such as privacy breaches and biases. Machine unlearning has emerged as a viable solution, aiming to remove specific training data, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Xiaohua Feng , Yuyuan Li , Chaochao Chen , Li Zhang , Longfei Li , Jun Zhou , Xiaolin Zheng

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

Current text-to-image (T2I) synthesis diffusion models raise misuse concerns, particularly in creating prohibited or not-safe-for-work (NSFW) images. To address this, various safety mechanisms and red teaming attack methods are proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Pucheng Dang , Xing Hu , Dong Li , Rui Zhang , Qi Guo , Kaidi Xu

Content safety is a fundamental challenge for text-to-image (T2I) models, yet prevailing methods enforce a debilitating trade-off between safety and generation quality. We argue that mitigating this trade-off hinges on addressing systemic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shouwei Ruan , Zhenyu Wu , Yao Huang , Ruochen Zhang , Yitong Sun , Caixin Kang , Shiji Zhao , Xingxing Wei

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

Recent advances in diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models have led to remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, ensuring accurate alignment between the text and the generated image remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jia Jun Cheng Xian , Muchen Li , Haotian Yang , Xin Tao , Pengfei Wan , Leonid Sigal , Renjie Liao

The rapid advancement of text-to-image Diffusion Models has led to their widespread public accessibility. However these models, trained on large internet datasets, can sometimes generate undesirable outputs. To mitigate this, approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Andrea Schioppa , Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek

Text-to-image (T2I) models have been widely applied in generating high-fidelity images across various domains. However, these models may also be abused to produce Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) content via jailbreak attacks. Existing jailbreak…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xingkai Peng , Jun Jiang , Meng Tong , Shuai Li , Weiming Zhang , Nenghai Yu , Kejiang Chen

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have raised security concerns due to their potential to generate inappropriate or harmful images. In this paper, we propose UPAM, a novel framework that investigates the robustness of T2I models from the attack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Duo Peng , Qiuhong Ke , Jun Liu

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable generative performance about various concepts. With the limitation of privacy and safety in practice, the generative capability concerning NSFW (Not Safe For Work)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jiahang Tu , Qian Feng , Jiahua Dong , Hanbin Zhao , Chao Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Hui Qian

There is growing concern over the safety of powerful diffusion models (DMs), as they are often misused to produce inappropriate, not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content or generate copyrighted material or data of individuals who wish to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Mingyu Kim , Dongjun Kim , Amman Yusuf , Stefano Ermon , Mijung Park

Large-scale pre-training frameworks like CLIP have revolutionized multimodal learning, but their reliance on web-scraped datasets, frequently containing private user data, raises serious concerns about misuse. Unlearnable Examples (UEs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Xingjun Ma , Hanxun Huang , Tianwei Song , Ye Sun , Yifeng Gao , Yu-Gang Jiang

Subject-Driven Text-to-Image (T2I) Generation aims to preserve a subject's identity while editing its context based on a text prompt. A core challenge in this task is the "similarity-controllability paradox", where enhancing textual control…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Shuang Li , Chao Deng , Hang Chen , Liqun Liu , Zhenyu Hu , Te Cao , Mengge Xue , Yuan Chen , Peng Shu , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang

Robust concept removal for text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) models is essential for their safe deployment. Existing methods, however, suffer from costly retraining, inference overhead, or vulnerability to adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shristi Das Biswas , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has been proposed as an effective and efficient alternative to reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). In this paper, we propose a novel and enhanced version of DPO based on curriculum…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Nicu Sebe , Mubarak Shah

Text-to-image (T2I) models have significantly advanced in producing high-quality images. However, such models have the ability to generate images containing not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, such as pornography, violence, political content,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Longtian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Tianlin Li , Yuhan Zhi , Chao Shen

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating high-quality, diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, their ability to reproduce copyrighted styles, sensitive imagery, and harmful content raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Changhoon Kim , Yanjun Qi

Modern privacy regulations have spurred the evolution of machine unlearning, a technique that enables the removal of data from an already trained ML model without requiring retraining from scratch. Previous unlearning methods tend to induce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Haoxuan Ji , Zheng Lin , Yuyao Sun , Gao Fei , Yuhang Wang , Haichang Gao , Zhenxing Niu

Learning to optimize (L2O) is an emerging technique to solve mathematical optimization problems with learning-based methods. Although with great success in many real-world scenarios such as wireless communications, computer networks, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Qingyu Song , Wei Lin , Juncheng Wang , Hong Xu

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. Meanwhile, reinforcement learning methods, particularly those based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), have attracted widespread attention and been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Baoteng Li , Xianghao Zang , Xinran Wang , Xiangyu Na , Zhixiang He , Hao Sun , Chi Zhang , Zhongjiang He , Tianwei Cao , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma