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Despite the remarkable generation capabilities of diffusion models, recent studies have shown that they can memorize and create harmful content when given specific text prompts. Although fine-tuning approaches have been developed to…

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Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various generative tasks such as image synthesis, text-to-image, and text-guided image-to-image generation. However, the more powerful the DMs, the more harmful they…

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Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

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Diffusion models have attracted significant attention due to its exceptional data generation capabilities in fields such as image synthesis. However, recent studies have shown that diffusion models are vulnerable to copyright infringement…

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Text-to-image diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse images from natural language prompts. However, recent studies reveal that these models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zihao Fu , Ryan Brown , Shun Shao , Kai Rawal , Eoin Delaney , Chris Russell

The recent advances in diffusion models (DMs) have revolutionized the generation of realistic and complex images. However, these models also introduce potential safety hazards, such as producing harmful content and infringing data…

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Recent studies show that text to image (T2I) diffusion models are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where a trigger in the input prompt can steer generation toward harmful or unintended content. Beyond the trigger token itself, backdoor…

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Diffusion models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for generation, obtaining strong performance in various continuous domains. However, applying continuous diffusion models to natural language remains challenging due to its discrete…

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Text-to-image diffusion models can be fine-tuned in custom domains to adapt to specific user preferences, but such adaptability has also been utilized for illegal purposes, such as forging public figures' portraits, duplicating copyrighted…

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With the development of diffusion-based customization methods like DreamBooth, individuals now have access to train the models that can generate their personalized images. Despite the convenience, malicious users have misused these…

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Recently, large-scale diffusion models, e.g., Stable diffusion and DallE2, have shown remarkable results on image synthesis. On the other hand, large-scale cross-modal pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, ALIGN, and FILIP) are competent for…

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Autoregressive language models dominate modern text generation, yet their sequential nature introduces fundamental limitations: decoding is slow, and maintaining global coherence remains challenging. Diffusion models offer a promising…

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Despite the impressive generative capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, they remain vulnerable to generating inappropriate content, especially when confronted with implicit sexual prompts. Unlike explicit harmful prompts,…

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While text-to-image synthesis currently enjoys great popularity among researchers and the general public, the security of these models has been neglected so far. Many text-guided image generation models rely on pre-trained text encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Lukas Struppek , Dominik Hintersdorf , Kristian Kersting

Word embeddings derived from human-generated corpora inherit strong gender bias which can be further amplified by downstream models. Some commonly adopted debiasing approaches, including the seminal Hard Debias algorithm, apply…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Tianlu Wang , Xi Victoria Lin , Nazneen Fatema Rajani , Bryan McCann , Vicente Ordonez , Caiming Xiong

Although diffusion-based techniques have shown remarkable success in image generation and editing tasks, their abuse can lead to severe negative social impacts. Recently, some works have been proposed to provide defense against the abuse of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Zheng Li , Liangbin Xie , Jiantao Zhou , Xintao Wang , Haiwei Wu , Jinyu Tian

Text-to-image diffusion models often memorize training data, revealing a fundamental failure to generalize beyond the training set. Current mitigation strategies typically sacrifice image quality or prompt alignment to reduce memorization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sathwik Karnik , Juyeop Kim , Sanmi Koyejo , Jong-Seok Lee , Somil Bansal

Implicit assumptions and priors are often necessary in text-to-image generation tasks, especially when textual prompts lack sufficient context. However, these assumptions can sometimes reflect outdated concepts, inaccuracies, or societal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Feng He , Chao Zhang , Zhixue Zhao

Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models are widely recognized for their ability to generate high-quality and diverse images based on text prompts. However, despite recent advances, these models are still prone to generating unsafe images…

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