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Concept erasure aims to remove harmful, inappropriate, or copyrighted content from text-to-image diffusion models while preserving non-target semantics. However, existing methods either rely on costly fine-tuning or apply coarse semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ning Han , Zhenyu Ge , Feng Han , Yuhua Sun , Chengqing Li , Jingjing Chen

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have seen rapid and widespread adoption. However, their powerful generative capabilities raise concerns about potential misuse for synthesizing harmful, private, or copyrighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Uichan Lee , Jeonghyeon Kim , Sangheum Hwang

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated an unparalleled ability to generate high-quality, diverse images from a textual prompt. However, the internal representations learned by these models remain an enigma. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Hila Chefer , Oran Lang , Mor Geva , Volodymyr Polosukhin , Assaf Shocher , Michal Irani , Inbar Mosseri , Lior Wolf

Recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion models have brought them to the public spotlight, becoming widely accessible and embraced by everyday users. However, these models have been shown to generate harmful content such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Anubhav Jain , Yuya Kobayashi , Takashi Shibuya , Yuhta Takida , Nasir Memon , Julian Togelius , Yuki Mitsufuji

Text-to-image diffusion models have been demonstrated with undesired generation due to unfiltered large-scale training data, such as sexual images and copyrights, necessitating the erasure of undesired concepts. Most existing methods focus…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Xiaochuan Jin , Yue Jiang , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Text-to-image diffusion models sometimes depict blended concepts in the generated images. One promising use case of this effect would be the nonword-to-image generation task which attempts to generate images intuitively imaginable from a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Chihaya Matsuhira , Marc A. Kastner , Takahiro Komamizu , Takatsugu Hirayama , Ichiro Ide

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented success in image generation but pose increasing risks in terms of privacy, fairness, and security. A growing demand exists to \emph{erase} sensitive or harmful concepts (e.g., NSFW content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wen , Le Ku , Daheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Model customization introduces new concepts to existing text-to-image models, enabling the generation of these new concepts/objects in novel contexts. However, such methods lack accurate camera view control with respect to the new object,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Nupur Kumari , Grace Su , Richard Zhang , Taesung Park , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

Diffusion models dominate the space of text-to-image generation, yet they may produce undesirable outputs, including explicit content or private data. To mitigate this, concept ablation techniques have been explored to limit the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Matan Rusanovsky , Shimon Malnick , Amir Jevnisek , Ohad Fried , Shai Avidan

Diffusion models have recently surpassed GANs in image synthesis and editing, offering superior image quality and diversity. However, achieving precise control over attributes in generated images remains a challenge. Concept Sliders…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Deepak Sridhar , Nuno Vasconcelos

Recent success of text-to-image (T2I) generation and its increasing practical applications, enabled by diffusion models, require urgent consideration of erasing unwanted concepts, e.g., copyrighted, offensive, and unsafe ones, from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuan Wang , Ouxiang Li , Tingting Mu , Yanbin Hao , Kuien Liu , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

As Text-to-Image models continue to evolve, so does the risk of generating unsafe, copyrighted, or privacy-violating content. Existing safety interventions - ranging from training data curation and model fine-tuning to inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shristi Das Biswas , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

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

Generative models, particularly diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models, have demonstrated astounding success. However, aligning them to avoid generating content with unacceptable concepts (e.g., offensive or copyrighted content, or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Anudeep Das , Gurjot Singh , Prach Chantasantitam , N. Asokan

Large-scale image generation models, with impressive quality made possible by the vast amount of data available on the Internet, raise social concerns that these models may generate harmful or copyrighted content. The biases and harmfulness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Sanghyun Kim , Seohyeon Jung , Balhae Kim , Moonseok Choi , Jinwoo Shin , Juho Lee

Diffusion-based models have gained significant popularity for text-to-image generation due to their exceptional image-generation capabilities. A risk with these models is the potential generation of inappropriate content, such as biased or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hang Li , Chengzhi Shen , Philip Torr , Volker Tresp , Jindong Gu

Diffusion models have transformed image generation, yet controlling their outputs to reliably erase undesired concepts remains challenging. Existing approaches usually require task-specific training and struggle to generalize across both…

As text-to-image diffusion models grow increasingly prevalent, the ability to remove specific concepts-mostly explicit content and many copyrighted characters or styles-has become essential for safety and compliance. Existing unlearning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Junyeong Ahn , Seojin Yoon , Sungyong Baik

Enabling generative models to decompose visual concepts from a single image is a complex and challenging problem. In this paper, we study a new and challenging task, customized concept decomposition, wherein the objective is to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Zhi Xu , Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han

Recent advancements in large-scale generative models have enabled the creation of high-quality images and videos, but have also raised significant safety concerns regarding the generation of unsafe content. To mitigate this, concept erasure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Viet Nguyen , Vishal M. Patel