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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

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…

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Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks by producing high-fidelity content from text descriptions. They have also enabled an editing paradigm where concepts can be replaced through text conditioning (e.g., a dog to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

The widespread adoption of text-to-image (T2I) generation has raised concerns about privacy, bias, and copyright violations. Concept erasure techniques offer a promising solution by selectively removing undesired concepts from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lu Wei , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

Large text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating diverse, high-quality images. Additionally, these models have been successfully leveraged to edit input images by just changing the text prompt. But when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-11 Anant Khandelwal

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-guided image editing with diffusion models has achieved remarkable quality but often suffers from prohibitive latency. We introduce \textbf{FlashEdit}, a real-time localized image editing framework for the standard inversion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Junyi Wu , Zhiteng Li , Haotong Qin , Yulun Zhang , Xiaokang Yang

Despite their remarkable image generation capabilities, text-to-image diffusion models inadvertently learn inappropriate concepts from vast and unfiltered training data, which leads to various ethical and business risks. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yanhao Wang , Yaliang Li

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

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

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 techniques have recently gained significant attention for their potential to remove unwanted concepts from text-to-image models. While these methods often demonstrate promising results in controlled settings, their…

Diffusion-based image editing offers strong semantic controllability, but remains computationally expensive due to iterative high-resolution denoising over all spatial tokens. Dynamic-resolution sampling reduces this cost by performing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Zhengan Yan , Shikang Zheng , Haoran Qin , Xiaobing Tu , Yinggui Wang , Jiacheng Liu , Jiaxuan Ren , Yuqi Lin , Peiliang Cai , Jinkui Ren , Xiantao Zhang , Linfeng Zhang

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

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

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models enable photorealistic image generation, but they also risk producing malicious content, such as NSFW images. To mitigate risk, concept erasure methods are studied to facilitate the model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ruidong Chen , Honglin Guo , Lanjun Wang , Chenyu Zhang , Weizhi Nie , An-An Liu

Post-hoc unlearning has emerged as a practical mechanism for removing undesirable concepts from large text-to-image diffusion models. However, prior work primarily evaluates unlearning through erasure success; its impact on broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , Ali Aghayari , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

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

The rapid advancement of pretrained text-driven diffusion models has significantly enriched applications in image generation and editing. However, as the demand for personalized content editing increases, new challenges emerge especially…

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