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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

Text-to-Image models such as Stable Diffusion have shown impressive image generation synthesis, thanks to the utilization of large-scale datasets. However, these datasets may contain sexually explicit, copyrighted, or undesirable content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Seunghoo Hong , Juhun Lee , Simon S. Woo

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

Concerns about text-to-image (T2I) generative models infringing on privacy, copyright, and safety have led to the development of concept erasure techniques (CETs). The goal of an effective CET is to prohibit the generation of undesired…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shaswati Saha , Sourajit Saha , Manas Gaur , Tejas Gokhale

The remarkable development of text-to-image generation models has raised notable security concerns, such as the infringement of portrait rights and the generation of inappropriate content. Concept erasure has been proposed to remove the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yufan Liu , Jinyang An , Wanqian Zhang , Ming Li , Dayan Wu , Jingzi Gu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

With the rapid growth of text-to-image models, a variety of techniques have been suggested to prevent undesirable image generations. Yet, these methods often only protect against specific user prompts and have been shown to allow unsafe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Minh Pham , Kelly O. Marshall , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images, but their reliance on large-scale unlabeled data has raised significant safety and copyright concerns. Efforts to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Yanfei Dong , Yixuan Wu , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of these models can inadvertently led they to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye

Recent breakthroughs in diffusion models, multimodal pretraining, and efficient finetuning have led to an explosion of text-to-image generative models. Given human evaluation is expensive and difficult to scale, automated methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Dhruba Ghosh , Hanna Hajishirzi , Ludwig Schmidt

The rapid expansion of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has raised growing concerns regarding their potential misuse in creating harmful or misleading content. In this paper, we introduce MACE, a finetuning framework for the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shilin Lu , Zilan Wang , Leyang Li , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Text-to-image models encounter safety issues, including concerns related to copyright and Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content. Despite several methods have been proposed for erasing inappropriate concepts from diffusion models, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chao Gong , Kai Chen , Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved unified and strong performance across both visual understanding and image generation tasks. However, removing undesired concepts from AR models while maintaining overall generation quality remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Haipeng Fan , Shiyuan Zhang , Baohunesitu , Zihang Guo , Huaiwen Zhang

In recent years, there has been significant progress in the development of text-to-image generative models. Evaluating the quality of the generative models is one essential step in the development process. Unfortunately, the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Lin Zhao , Tianchen Zhao , Zinan Lin , Xuefei Ning , Guohao Dai , Huazhong Yang , Yu Wang

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

Text-to-image diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of diffusion models can inadvertently lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Yuexiang Xie , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye , Yingda Chen , Yaliang Li

Text-to-video diffusion transformers encode semantic information unevenly across model depth, which constrains effective concept erasure. We identify a representational bottleneck, termed concept-layer topological alignment, under which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating the risk of harmful content generation in diffusion models by selectively unlearning undesirable concepts. The common principle of previous works to remove a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Long Vuong , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Junae Kim , Dinh Phung

Ensuring that neural models used in real-world applications cannot infer sensitive information, such as demographic attributes like gender or race, from text representations is a critical challenge when fairness is a concern. We address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Antoine Saillenfest , Pirmin Lemberger

Concept erasure, which fine-tunes diffusion models to remove undesired or harmful visual concepts, has become a mainstream approach to mitigating unsafe or illegal image generation in text-to-image models.However, existing removal methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Hao Chen , Yiwei Wang , Songze Li

Large-scale diffusion models, known for their impressive image generation capabilities, have raised concerns among researchers regarding social impacts, such as the imitation of copyrighted artistic styles. In response, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin