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In concept erasure, a model is modified to selectively prevent it from generating a target concept. Despite the rapid development of new methods, it remains unclear how thoroughly these approaches remove the target concept from the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kevin Lu , Nicky Kriplani , Rohit Gandikota , Minh Pham , David Bau , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Concept erasure helps stop diffusion models (DMs) from generating harmful content; but current methods face robustness retention trade off. Robustness means the model fine-tuned by concept erasure methods resists reactivation of erased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fengpeng Li , Kemou Li , Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Jiantao Zhou

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant advancements in generating high-quality, diverse images from text prompts. However, the inherent limitations of textual signals often prevent these models from fully capturing specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ziqiang Li , Jun Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu , Zechao Li

Motivated by recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion, we study erasure of specific concepts from the model's weights. While Stable Diffusion has shown promise in producing explicit or realistic artwork, it has raised concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rohit Gandikota , Joanna Materzynska , Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman , David Bau

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models deliver remarkable visual fidelity but pose safety risks due to their capacity to reproduce undesirable content, such as copyrighted ones. Concept erasure has emerged as a mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hoigi Seo , Byung Hyun Lee , Jaehyun Cho , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown unprecedented generative capability, but their ability to produce undesirable concepts (e.g.~pornographic content, sensitive identities, copyrighted styles) poses serious concerns for privacy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Finn Carter

Erasing harmful or proprietary concepts from powerful text to image generators is an emerging safety requirement, yet current "concept erasure" techniques either collapse image quality, rely on brittle adversarial losses, or demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Abhiram Kusumba , Maitreya Patel , Kyle Min , Changhoon Kim , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Customization generation techniques have significantly advanced the synthesis of specific concepts across varied contexts. Multi-concept customization emerges as the challenging task within this domain. Existing approaches often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yang Yang , Wen Wang , Liang Peng , Chaotian Song , Yao Chen , Hengjia Li , Xiaolong Yang , Qinglin Lu , Deng Cai , Boxi Wu , Wei Liu

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to generate high-quality images from input textual descriptions. However, concerns have been raised about the potential for these models to create content that infringes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Tingxu Han , Weisong Sun , Yanrong Hu , Chunrong Fang , Yonglong Zhang , Shiqing Ma , Tao Zheng , Zhenyu Chen , Zhenting Wang

Removing undesired concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models while preserving overall generative quality remains a major challenge, particularly as modern models such as Stable Diffusion v3,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhaoxin Fan , Nanxiang Jiang , Daiheng Gao , Shiji Zhou , Wenjun Wu

In this work, we present DeepEraser, an effective deep network for generic text removal. DeepEraser utilizes a recurrent architecture that erases the text in an image via iterative operations. Our idea comes from the process of erasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Hao Feng , Wendi Wang , Shaokai Liu , Jiajun Deng , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

The rapid proliferation of large-scale text-to-image diffusion (T2ID) models has raised serious concerns about their potential misuse in generating harmful content. Although numerous methods have been proposed for erasing undesired concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Koushik Srivatsan , Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Vishal M. Patel , Karthik Nandakumar

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented success in image generation but pose increasing risks in terms of privacy, fairness, and security. A growing demand exists to \emph{erase} sensitive or harmful concepts (e.g., NSFW content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wen , Le Ku , Daheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

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

Large text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image synthesis capabilities, but their indiscriminate training on Internet-scale data has led to learned concepts that enable harmful, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Finn Carter

Diffusion models excel at generating visually striking content from text but can inadvertently produce undesirable or harmful content when trained on unfiltered internet data. A practical solution is to selectively removing target concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Long Vuong , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

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

The representation space of neural models for textual data emerges in an unsupervised manner during training. Understanding how those representations encode human-interpretable concepts is a fundamental problem. One prominent approach for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Shauli Ravfogel , Francisco Vargas , Yoav Goldberg , Ryan Cotterell

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

Concept erasure techniques have been widely deployed in T2I diffusion models to prevent inappropriate content generation for safety and copyright considerations. However, as models evolve to next-generation architectures like Flux,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Daiheng Gao , Nanxiang Jiang , Andi Zhang , Shilin Lu , Yufei Tang , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Zhaoxin Fan