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The prevalent use of commercial and open-source diffusion models (DMs) for text-to-image generation prompts risk mitigation to prevent undesired behaviors. Existing concept erasing methods in academia are all based on full parameter or…

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Image classifiers should be used with caution in the real world. Performance evaluated on a validation set may not reflect performance in the real world. In particular, classifiers may perform well for conditions that are frequently…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Adrien LeCoz , Houssem Ouertatani , Stéphane Herbin , Faouzi Adjed

*Concept-based explanations* offer a promising approach for explaining the predictions of deep neural networks in terms of high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing methods either do not establish a causal connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ronaldo Canizales , Divya Gopinath , Corina Păsăreanu , Ravi Mangal

Evaluation is essential in image fusion research, yet most existing metrics are directly borrowed from other vision tasks without proper adaptation. These traditional metrics, often based on complex image transformations, not only fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Chunyang Cheng , Tianyang Xu , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tao Zhou , Hui Li , Zhangyong Tang , Josef Kittler

We provide a new multi-task benchmark for evaluating text-to-image models. We perform a human evaluation comparing the most common open-source (Stable Diffusion) and commercial (DALL-E 2) models. Twenty computer science AI graduate students…

Editing images using natural language instructions has become a natural and expressive way to modify visual content; yet, evaluating the performance of such models remains challenging. Existing evaluation approaches often rely on image-text…

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Recent generative data augmentation methods conditioned on both image and text prompts struggle to balance between fidelity and diversity, as it is challenging to preserve essential image details while aligning with varied text prompts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianchen Zhao , Xuanbai Chen , Zhihua Li , Jun Fang , Dongsheng An , Xiang Xu , Zhuowen Tu , Yifan Xing

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in image generation task, where users can create visually astonishing images with high-quality. However, existing text-to-image diffusion models are proficient in generating concrete concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Jingyuan Yang , Jiawei Feng , Hui Huang

Concept unlearning in diffusion models is hampered by feature splitting, where concepts are distributed across many latent features, making their removal challenging and computationally expensive. We introduce SAEmnesia, a supervised sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Enrico Cassano , Riccardo Renzulli , Marco Nurisso , Mirko Zaffaroni , Alan Perotti , Marco Grangetto

Text-to-image generation and text-guided image manipulation have received considerable attention in the field of image generation tasks. However, the mainstream evaluation methods for these tasks have difficulty in evaluating whether all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Mizuki Miyamoto , Ryugo Morita , Jinjia Zhou

The powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models have raised growing privacy and safety concerns regarding generating sensitive or undesired content. In response, machine unlearning (MU) -- commonly referred to as concept erasure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinwen Cheng , Jingyuan Zhang , Zhehao Huang , Yingwen Wu , Xiaolin Huang

Automatic evaluation for open-ended natural language generation tasks remains a challenge. Existing metrics such as BLEU show a low correlation with human judgment. We propose a novel and powerful learning-based evaluation metric:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jing Gu , Qingyang Wu , Zhou Yu

In this work, we systematically study the problem of personalized text-to-image generation, where the output image is expected to portray information about specific human subjects. E.g., generating images of oneself appearing at imaginative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Panos Achlioptas , Alexandros Benetatos , Iordanis Fostiropoulos , Dimitris Skourtis

Concept erasure helps stop diffusion models (DMs) from generating harmful content; but current methods face robustness retention trade off. Robustness means the model fine-tuned by concept erasure methods resists reactivation of erased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fengpeng Li , Kemou Li , Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Jiantao Zhou

As text-to-image diffusion models gain widespread commercial applications, there are increasing concerns about unethical or harmful use, including the unauthorized generation of copyrighted or sensitive content. Concept unlearning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Saemi Moon , Minjong Lee , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

We introduce the Self-Evaluating Model (Self-E), a novel, from-scratch training approach for text-to-image generation that supports any-step inference. Self-E learns from data similarly to a Flow Matching model, while simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Xin Yu , Xiaojuan Qi , Zhengqi Li , Kai Zhang , Richard Zhang , Zhe Lin , Eli Shechtman , Tianyu Wang , Yotam Nitzan

Evaluation of generative models has been an underrepresented field despite the surge of generative architectures. Most recent models are evaluated upon rather obsolete metrics which suffer from robustness issues, while being unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Filandrianos , Konstantinos Thomas , Giorgos Stamou

Research in the area of style transfer for text is currently bottlenecked by a lack of standard evaluation practices. This paper aims to alleviate this issue by experimentally identifying best practices with a Yelp sentiment dataset. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Remi Mir , Bjarke Felbo , Nick Obradovich , Iyad Rahwan

Concepts are used to solve the term-mismatch problem. However, we need an effective similarity measure between concepts. Word embedding presents a promising solution. We present in this study three approaches to build concepts vectors based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Karam Abdulahhad

There is significant interest in developing evaluation metrics which accurately estimate the quality of generated text without the aid of a human-written reference text, which can be time consuming and expensive to collect or entirely…

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