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Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of image synthesis, yet they have also introduced serious safety concerns, particularly the generation of Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content. Previous research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yaopei Zeng , Yuanpu Cao , Bochuan Cao , Yurui Chang , Jinghui Chen , Lu Lin

Despite many attempts to leverage pre-trained text-to-image models (T2I) like Stable Diffusion (SD) for controllable image editing, producing good predictable results remains a challenge. Previous approaches have focused on either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Sherry X. Chen , Yaron Vaxman , Elad Ben Baruch , David Asulin , Aviad Moreshet , Kuo-Chin Lien , Misha Sra , Pradeep Sen

Text-to-image (T2I) models have become increasingly capable of generating high-quality images. Yet, enforcing the explicit absence of a specified object or attribute remains a fundamentally challenging problem. Existing approaches,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jungmin Ko , Jungwon Park , Jimyeong Kim , Changin Choi , Wonseok Lee , Wonjong Rhee

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has made significant advances in recent years, but challenges still remain in the generation of perceptual artifacts, misalignment with complex prompts, and safety. The prevailing approach to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaoying Xing , Avinab Saha , Junfeng He , Susan Hao , Paul Vicol , Moonkyung Ryu , Gang Li , Sahil Singla , Sarah Young , Yinxiao Li , Feng Yang , Deepak Ramachandran

We propose a new framework called Noise2Blur (N2B) for training robust image denoising models without pre-collected paired noisy/clean images. The training of the model requires only some (or even one) noisy images, some random unpaired…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-15 Huangxing Lin , Weihong Zeng , Xinghao Ding , Xueyang Fu , Yue Huang , John Paisley

Visual modality is the most vulnerable to privacy leakage in real-world multimodal applications like autonomous driving with visual and radar data; Machine unlearning removes specific training data from pre-trained models to address privacy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Jinghan Xu Yuyang Zhang Qixuan Cai Jiancheng Chen Keqiu Li

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating images that closely correspond to textual prompts. However, the advancement of T2I diffusion models presents significant risks, as the models could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jie Ren , Kangrui Chen , Yingqian Cui , Shenglai Zeng , Hui Liu , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang , Lingjuan Lyu

Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models (DMs) have garnered widespread attention for their impressive advancements in image generation. However, their growing popularity has raised ethical and social concerns related to key non-functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi Zhang , Zhen Chen , Chih-Hong Cheng , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Dezong Zhao , David Flynn , Siddartha Khastgir , Xingyu Zhao

Modern preference alignment methods, such as DPO, rely on divergence regularization to a reference model for training stability-but this creates a fundamental problem we call "reference mismatch." In this paper, we investigate the negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jiwoo Hong , Sayak Paul , Noah Lee , Kashif Rasul , James Thorne , Jongheon Jeong

Machine Unlearning (MU) is critical for removing private or hazardous information from deep learning models. While MU has advanced significantly in unimodal (text or vision) settings, multimodal unlearning (MMU) remains underexplored due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Alexey Dontsov , Dmitrii Korzh , Alexey Zhavoronkin , Boris Mikheev , Denis Bobkov , Aibek Alanov , Oleg Y. Rogov , Ivan Oseledets , Elena Tutubalina

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

Personalized diffusion models have shown remarkable success in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation by enabling the injection of user-defined concepts into diverse contexts. However, balancing concept fidelity with contextual alignment remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Shamil Ayupov , Maksim Nakhodnov , Anastasia Yaschenko , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Recently, prompt learning has emerged as the state-of-the-art (SOTA) for fair text-to-image (T2I) generation. Specifically, this approach leverages readily available reference images to learn inclusive prompts for each target Sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Christopher T. H Teo , Milad Abdollahzadeh , Xinda Ma , Ngai-man Cheung

Text-to-image (T2I) models raise ethical and safety concerns due to their potential to generate inappropriate or harmful images. Evaluating these models' security through red-teaming is vital, yet white-box approaches are limited by their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yichuan Cao , Yibo Miao , Xiao-Shan Gao , Yinpeng Dong

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has greatly enhanced creative expression, yet achieving preference-aligned generation in a real-time and training-free manner remains challenging. Previous methods often rely on static, pre-collected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yang Li , Songlin Yang , Xiaoxuan Han , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Yueming Lyu , Ziyu Xue

Image generation models (IGMs), while capable of producing impressive and creative content, often memorize a wide range of undesirable concepts from their training data, leading to the reproduction of unsafe content such as NSFW imagery and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Renyang Liu , Kangjie Chen , Han Qiu , Jie Zhang , Kwok-Yan Lam , Tianwei Zhang , See-Kiong Ng

Text-to-image diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of diffusion models can inadvertently lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Yuexiang Xie , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye , Yingda Chen , Yaliang Li

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are one of the most prominent technologies of our time, as they achieve state-of-the-art performance in many machine learning tasks, including but not limited to image classification, text mining, and speech…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-03 Pin-Yu Chen , Huan Zhang , Yash Sharma , Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh

We develop a Learning Direct Optimization (LiDO) method for the refinement of a latent variable model that describes input image x. Our goal is to explain a single image x with an interpretable 3D computer graphics model having scene graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Lukasz Romaszko , Christopher K. I. Williams , John Winn

Image-to-text (I2T) understanding and text-to-image (T2I) generation are two fundamental, important yet traditionally isolated multimodal tasks. Despite their intrinsic connection, existing approaches typically optimize them independently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Zhiyuan Yan , Kaiqing Lin , Zongjian Li , Junyan Ye , Hui Han , Haochen Wang , Zhendong Wang , Bin Lin , Hao Li , Xinyan Xiao , Jingdong Wang , Haifeng Wang , Li Yuan