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Recent text-guided diffusion models provide powerful image generation capabilities. Currently, a massive effort is given to enable the modification of these images using text only as means to offer intuitive and versatile editing. To edit a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Kfir Aberman , Yael Pritch , Daniel Cohen-Or

Text-to-image generative models excel in creating images from text but struggle with ensuring alignment and consistency between outputs and prompts. This paper introduces TextMatch, a novel framework that leverages multimodal optimization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yucong Luo , Mingyue Cheng , Jie Ouyang , Xiaoyu Tao , Qi Liu

Text-to-image diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for generating high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, their increasing popularity has raised significant copyright concerns, as these models can be misused to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Naen Xu , Changjiang Li , Tianyu Du , Minxi Li , Wenjie Luo , Jiacheng Liang , Yuyuan Li , Xuhong Zhang , Meng Han , Jianwei Yin , Ting Wang

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for text-to-image generation. However, their iterative sampling process, which gradually morphs random noise into coherent images, introduces significant latency that limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Peijie Qiu , Hariharan Ramshankar , Arnau Ramisa , René Vidal , Amit Kumar K C , Vamsi Salaka , Rahul Bhagat

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Oscar Chew , Po-Yi Lu , Jayden Lin , Kuan-Hao Huang , Hsuan-Tien Lin

Recent advances in diffusion models have notably enhanced text-to-image (T2I) generation quality, but they also raise the risk of generating unsafe content. Traditional safety methods like text blacklisting or harmful content classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zongsheng Cao , Yangfan He , Anran Liu , Jun Xie , Feng Chen , Zepeng Wang

Text-to-image models suffer from various safety issues that may limit their suitability for deployment. Previous methods have separately addressed individual issues of bias, copyright, and offensive content in text-to-image models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Rohit Gandikota , Hadas Orgad , Yonatan Belinkov , Joanna Materzyńska , David Bau

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Text-to-image diffusion models like Stable Diffusion generate high-quality images from text, but lack a way to inject visual guidance (e.g. sketches, styles) at inference without retraining. Existing methods either require computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Agata Żywot , Iason Skylitsis , Thijmen Nijdam , Zoe Tzifa-Kratira , Derck Prinzhorn , Konrad Szewczyk , Aritra Bhowmik

Training multimodal generative models on large, uncurated datasets can result in users being exposed to harmful, unsafe and controversial or culturally-inappropriate outputs. While model editing has been proposed to remove or filter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Jordan Vice , Naveed Akhtar , Mubarak Shah , Richard Hartley , Ajmal Mian

Text-to-image generative models are widely deployed in creative tools and online platforms. To mitigate misuse, these systems rely on safety filters and moderation pipelines that aim to block harmful or policy violating content. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ahmed B Mustafa , Zihan Ye , Yang Lu , Michael P Pound , Shreyank N Gowda

Most text-to-image customization techniques fine-tune models on a small set of \emph{personal concept} images captured in minimal contexts. This often results in the model becoming overfitted to these training images and unable to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Taewook Kim , Wei Chen , Qiang Qiu

Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models empower users to edit images through text guidance. However, existing methods often over-align with target prompts while inadequately preserving source image semantics. Such approaches generate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jianda Mao , Kaibo Wang , Yang Xiang , Kani Chen

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of image synthesis, yet they have also introduced serious safety concerns, particularly the generation of Not Safe for Work (NSFW) content. Previous research has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yaopei Zeng , Yuanpu Cao , Bochuan Cao , Yurui Chang , Jinghui Chen , Lu Lin

Recent advancements in text-to-image models, particularly diffusion models, have shown significant promise. However, compositional text-to-image models frequently encounter difficulties in generating high-quality images that accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Song Wen , Guian Fang , Renrui Zhang , Peng Gao , Hao Dong , Dimitris Metaxas

Images produced by text-to-image diffusion models might not always faithfully represent the semantic intent of the provided text prompt, where the model might overlook or entirely fail to produce certain objects. Existing solutions often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Tuna Han Salih Meral , Enis Simsar , Federico Tombari , Pinar Yanardag

To enhance the security of text CAPTCHAs, various methods have been employed, such as adding the interference lines on the text, randomly distorting the characters, and overlapping multiple characters. These methods partly increase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Ran Jiang , Sanfeng Zhang , Linfeng Liu , Yanbing Peng

Recent advances in diffusion models have significantly enhanced their ability to generate high-quality images and videos, but they have also increased the risk of producing unsafe content. Existing unlearning/editing-based methods for safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Jaehong Yoon , Shoubin Yu , Vaidehi Patil , Huaxiu Yao , Mohit Bansal

Text-to-image diffusion models rely on massive, web-scale datasets. Training them from scratch is computationally expensive, and as a result, developers often prefer to make incremental updates to existing models. These updates often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Vinith M. Suriyakumar , Rohan Alur , Ayush Sekhari , Manish Raghavan , Ashia C. Wilson

The field of text-conditioned image generation has made unparalleled progress with the recent advent of latent diffusion models. While remarkable, as the complexity of given text input increases, the state-of-the-art diffusion models may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Jaskirat Singh , Liang Zheng