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The rapid proliferation of multimodal generative models has sparked critical discussions on their reliability, fairness and potential for misuse. While text-to-image models excel at producing high-fidelity, user-guided content, they often…

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Recent advances in deep learning and on-device inference could transform routine screening for skin cancers. Along with the anticipated benefits of this technology, potential dangers arise from unforeseen and inherent biases. A significant…

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Achieving robust performance and fairness across diverse patient populations remains a challenge in developing clinically deployable deep learning models for diagnostic imaging. Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising strategy…

Large-scale, big-variant, high-quality data are crucial for developing robust and successful deep-learning models for medical applications since they potentially enable better generalization performance and avoid overfitting. However, the…

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As machine learning-enabled Text-to-Image (TTI) systems are becoming increasingly prevalent and seeing growing adoption as commercial services, characterizing the social biases they exhibit is a necessary first step to lowering their risk…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Alexandra Sasha Luccioni , Christopher Akiki , Margaret Mitchell , Yacine Jernite

With the growing adoption of Text-to-Image (TTI) systems, the social biases of these models have come under increased scrutiny. Herein we conduct a systematic investigation of one such source of bias for diffusion models: embedding spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sahil Kuchlous , Marvin Li , Jeffrey G. Wang

Diffusion models have achieved great progress in face generation. However, these models amplify the bias in the generation process, leading to an imbalance in distribution of sensitive attributes such as age, gender and race. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Basudha Pal , Arunkumar Kannan , Ram Prabhakar Kathirvel , Alice J. O'Toole , Rama Chellappa

While hundreds of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms are now approved or cleared by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), many studies have shown inconsistent generalization or latent bias, particularly for underrepresented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-25 Luke W. Sagers , James A. Diao , Luke Melas-Kyriazi , Matthew Groh , Pranav Rajpurkar , Adewole S. Adamson , Veronica Rotemberg , Roxana Daneshjou , Arjun K. Manrai

While deep learning holds great promise for disease diagnosis and prognosis in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, its progress is often constrained by highly imbalanced and biased training datasets. To address this issue, we propose a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-09 Grzegorz Skorupko , Richard Osuala , Zuzanna Szafranowska , Kaisar Kushibar , Vien Ngoc Dang , Nay Aung , Steffen E Petersen , Karim Lekadir , Polyxeni Gkontra

Image generation has achieved remarkable progress with the development of large-scale text-to-image models, especially diffusion-based models. However, generating human images with plausible details, such as faces or hands, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Yuxuan Wang , Tianwei Cao , Huayu Zhang , Zhongjiang He , Kongming Liang , Zhanyu Ma

Background: Text-to-image generation models are widely used across numerous domains. Among these models, Stable Diffusion (SD) - an open-source text-to-image generation model - has become the most popular, producing over 12 billion images…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Giordano d'Aloisio , Tosin Fadahunsi , Jay Choy , Rebecca Moussa , Federica Sarro

Fairness remains a critical concern in healthcare, where unequal access to services and treatment outcomes can adversely affect patient health. While Federated Learning (FL) presents a collaborative and privacy-preserving approach to model…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Minghan Li , Congcong Wen , Yu Tian , Min Shi , Yan Luo , Hao Huang , Yi Fang , Mengyu Wang

This research focuses on the development and enhancement of text-to-image denoising diffusion models, addressing key challenges such as limited sample diversity and training instability. By incorporating Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Rajdeep Roshan Sahu

The rapid development of text-to-image generation has brought rising ethical considerations, especially regarding gender bias. Given a text prompt as input, text-to-image models generate images according to the prompt. Pioneering models…

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The text to medical image (T2MedI) with latent diffusion model has great potential to alleviate the scarcity of medical imaging data and explore the underlying appearance distribution of lesions in a specific patient status description.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Xu Han , Fangfang Fan , Jingzhao Rong , Zhen Li , Georges El Fakhri , Qingyu Chen , Xiaofeng Liu

Generative models are increasingly used to augment medical imaging datasets for fairer AI. Yet a key assumption often goes unexamined: that generators themselves produce equally high-quality images across demographic groups. Models trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahmoud Ibrahim , Bart Elen , Chang Sun , Gokhan Ertaylan , Michel Dumontier

Data Fairness is a crucial topic due to the recent wide usage of AI powered applications. Most of the real-world data is filled with human or machine biases and when those data are being used to train AI models, there is a chance that the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Md Fahim Sikder , Resmi Ramachandranpillai , Daniel de Leng , Fredrik Heintz

In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems has raised concerns about our ability to ensure their fairness, that is, how to avoid discrimination based on protected characteristics such as gender, race, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Iris Dominguez-Catena , Daniel Paternain , Mikel Galar , MaryBeth Defrance , Maarten Buyl , Tijl De Bie

This survey reviews the progress of diffusion models in generating images from text, ~\textit{i.e.} text-to-image diffusion models. As a self-contained work, this survey starts with a brief introduction of how diffusion models work for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Chenshuang Zhang , Chaoning Zhang , Mengchun Zhang , In So Kweon , Junmo Kim

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…

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