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Existing unlearning algorithms in text-to-image generative models often fail to preserve the knowledge of semantically related concepts when removing specific target concepts: a challenge known as adjacency. To address this, we propose FADE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

With the rapid progress of diffusion-based content generation, significant efforts are being made to unlearn harmful or copyrighted concepts from pretrained diffusion models (DMs) to prevent potential model misuse. However, it is observed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Hongcheng Gao , Tianyu Pang , Chao Du , Taihang Hu , Zhijie Deng , Min Lin

In the evolving landscape of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, the remarkable capability to generate high-quality images from textual descriptions faces challenges with the potential misuse of reproducing sensitive content. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Changhoon Kim , Kyle Min , Yezhou Yang

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 (DMs) have achieved significant progress in text-to-image generation. However, the inevitable inclusion of sensitive information during pre-training poses safety risks, such as unsafe content generation and copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hongguang Zhu , Yunchao Wei , Mengyu Wang , Siyu Jiao , Yan Fang , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao

Despite the great success of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models in image generation and image editing, existing methods still struggle to edit the layout of real images. Although a few works have been proposed to tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Tao Xia , Yudi Zhang , Ting Liu Lei Zhang

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable results in generating high-quality, diverse, and creative images. However, when it comes to text-based image generation, they often fail to capture the intended meaning presented in the text. For…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Kota Sueyoshi , Takashi Matsubara

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

Diffusion models have gained attention for image editing yielding impressive results in text-to-image tasks. On the downside, one might notice that generated images of stable diffusion models suffer from deteriorated details. This pitfall…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Joshua Santoso , Christian Simon , Williem

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs), represented by Stable Diffusion, which generate highly realistic images based on textual input, have been widely used, but their flexibility also makes them prone to misuse for producing harmful or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Chaoshuo Zhang , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Le Yang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

We present GIFT: a {G}radient-aware {I}mmunization technique to defend diffusion models against malicious {F}ine-{T}uning while preserving their ability to generate safe content. Existing safety mechanisms like safety checkers are easily…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Amro Abdalla , Ismail Shaheen , Dan DeGenaro , Rupayan Mallick , Bogdan Raita , Sarah Adel Bargal

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have the ability to build high-quality pictures from text prompts, but they pose safety concerns because they can generate offensive or disturbing imagery when provided with harmful inputs. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chi Zhang , Changjia Zhu , Xiaowen Li , Yao Liu , Zhuo Lu

We propose a method for generating spurious features by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models. Although the previous work detects spurious features in a large-scale dataset like ImageNet and introduces Spurious ImageNet, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-14 AprilPyone MaungMaung , Huy H. Nguyen , Hitoshi Kiya , Isao Echizen

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, their ability to store vast amounts of knowledge raises concerns in scenarios where selective forgetting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gen Li , Yang Xiao , Jie Ji , Kaiyuan Deng , Bo Hui , Linke Guo , Xiaolong Ma

Advancements in diffusion models have enabled effortless image editing via text prompts, raising concerns about image security. Attackers with access to user images can exploit these tools for malicious edits. Recent defenses attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Aniruddha Bala , Rohit Chowdhury , Rohan Jaiswal , Siddharth Roheda

Despite the record-breaking performance in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation by Stable Diffusion, less research attention is paid to its adversarial robustness. In this work, we study the problem of adversarial attack generation for Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Haomin Zhuang , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently shown immense qualitative success using denoising diffusion processes. However, unlike discriminative vision-and-language models, it is a non-trivial task to subject these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Benno Krojer , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Vikram Voleti , Christopher Pal , Siva Reddy

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

The success of recent text-to-image diffusion models is largely due to their capacity to be guided by a complex text prompt, which enables users to precisely describe the desired content. However, these models struggle to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Senmao Li , Joost van de Weijer , Taihang Hu , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Qibin Hou , Yaxing Wang , Jian Yang