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We propose DeCoDi, a debiasing procedure for text-to-image diffusion-based models that changes the inference procedure, does not significantly change image quality, has negligible compute overhead, and can be applied in any diffusion-based…

Text-to-image(T2I) models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E have made generative AI widely accessible, yet recent studies reveal that these systems often replicate societal biases, particularly in how they depict demographic groups across…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Marzia Binta Nizam , James Davis

Text-to-image diffusion models, which are theoretically equivalent to score-based generative models, generate images through a multi-step denoising process guided by text embeddings extracted from pretrained vision-language models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Seung Hyuk Lee , Songkuk Kim

With the rapid development of Text-to-Image (T2I) models, biases in human image generation against demographic social groups become a significant concern, impacting fairness and ethical standards in AI. Some researchers propose their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Hanjun Luo , Ziye Deng , Haoyu Huang , Xuecheng Liu , Ruizhe Chen , Zuozhu Liu

Text-to-image generative models often reflect the biases of the training data, leading to unequal representations of underrepresented groups. This study investigates inclusive text-to-image generative models that generate images based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Cheng Zhang , Xuanbai Chen , Siqi Chai , Chen Henry Wu , Dmitry Lagun , Thabo Beeler , Fernando De la Torre

Text-to-Image (TTI) generative models have shown great progress in the past few years in terms of their ability to generate complex and high-quality imagery. At the same time, these models have been shown to suffer from harmful biases,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Aditya Chinchure , Pushkar Shukla , Gaurav Bhatt , Kiri Salij , Kartik Hosanagar , Leonid Sigal , Matthew Turk

Recent advances in generative AI have enabled visual content creation through text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, despite their creative potential, T2I models often replicate and amplify societal stereotypes -- particularly those…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Saharsh Barve , Andy Mao , Jiayue Melissa Shi , Prerna Juneja , Koustuv Saha

State-of-the-art generative text-to-image models are known to exhibit social biases and over-represent certain groups like people of perceived lighter skin tones and men in their outcomes. In this work, we propose a method to mitigate such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Piero Esposito , Parmida Atighehchian , Anastasis Germanidis , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Text-to-Image (TTI) models are powerful creative tools but risk amplifying harmful social biases. We frame representational societal bias assessment as an image curation and evaluation task and introduce a pilot benchmark of occupational…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Shaina Raza , Maximus Powers , Partha Pratim Saha , Mahveen Raza , Rizwan Qureshi

Generative AI models have recently achieved astonishing results in quality and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. However, since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly…

Diffusion-based text-to-image models have rapidly gained popularity for their ability to generate detailed and realistic images from textual descriptions. However, these models often reflect the biases present in their training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Hidir Yesiltepe , Kiymet Akdemir , Pinar Yanardag

Text-to-image (TTI) diffusion models have achieved remarkable visual quality, yet they have been repeatedly shown to exhibit social biases across sensitive attributes such as gender, race and age. To mitigate these biases, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Manos Plitsis , Giorgos Bouritsas , Vassilis Katsouros , Yannis Panagakis

Text-to-image generative models often present issues regarding fairness with respect to certain sensitive attributes, such as gender or skin tone. This study aims to reproduce the results presented in "ITI-GEN: Inclusive Text-to-Image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Daniel Gallo Fernández , Răzvan-Andrei Matisan , Alejandro Monroy Muñoz , Janusz Partyka

Text-to-Image (T2I) models generate high-quality images but are vulnerable to malicious backdoor attacks that inject harmful biases (e.g., trigger-activated gender or racial stereotypes). Existing debiasing methods, often designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Hongyi Cai , Mohammad Mahdinur Rahman , Mingkang Dong , Muxin Pu , Moqyad Alqaily , Jie Li , Xinfeng Li , Jialie Shen , Meikang Qiu , Qingsong Wen

Manipulating visual attributes of images through human-written text is a very challenging task. On the one hand, models have to learn the manipulation without the ground truth of the desired output. On the other hand, models have to deal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Yahui Liu , Marco De Nadai , Deng Cai , Huayang Li , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri

Diffusion Models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with unprecedented image generation capability. These models are widely used for data augmentation and creative applications. However, DMs reflect the biases present in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Rishubh Parihar , Abhijnya Bhat , Abhipsa Basu , Saswat Mallick , Jogendra Nath Kundu , R. Venkatesh Babu

Deep learning models often learn to make predictions that rely on sensitive social attributes like gender and race, which poses significant fairness risks, especially in societal applications, e.g., hiring, banking, and criminal justice.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Yi Zhang , Jitao Sang , Junyang Wang

Text-to-Image (TTI) models generate images based on text prompts, which often leave certain aspects of the desired image ambiguous. When faced with these ambiguities, TTI models have been shown to exhibit biases in their interpretations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Noa Cohen , Nurit Spingarn-Eliezer , Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas , Tomer Michaeli

Note: This paper includes examples of potentially offensive content related to religious bias, presented solely for academic purposes. The widespread adoption of language models highlights the need for critical examinations of their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Ajwad Abrar , Nafisa Tabassum Oeshy , Mohsinul Kabir , Sophia Ananiadou

It has been shown that many generative models inherit and amplify societal biases. To date, there is no uniform/systematic agreed standard to control/adjust for these biases. This study examines the presence and manipulation of societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Philip Wootaek Shin , Jihyun Janice Ahn , Wenpeng Yin , Jack Sampson , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan
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