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While personalized text-to-image generation has enabled the learning of a single concept from multiple images, a more practical yet challenging scenario involves learning multiple concepts within a single image. However, existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han , Zhengyao Lv , Shihao Zhao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

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

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models is crucial for mitigating harmful content, yet existing methods often compromise generative quality. We introduce Semantic Surgery, a novel training-free, zero-shot framework for concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lexiang Xiong , Chengyu Liu , Jingwen Ye , Yan Liu , Yuecong Xu

To what extent does concept erasure eliminate generative capacity in diffusion models? While prior evaluations have primarily focused on measuring concept suppression under specific textual prompts, we explore a complementary and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ping Liu , Chi Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models suffer from the risk of generating outdated, copyrighted, incorrect, and biased content. While previous methods have mitigated the issues on a small scale, it is essential to handle them simultaneously in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Tianwei Xiong , Yue Wu , Enze Xie , Yue Wu , Zhenguo Li , Xihui Liu

Recent advances in image editing with diffusion models have achieved impressive results, offering fine-grained control over the generation process. However, these methods are computationally intensive because of their iterative nature.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ilia Beletskii , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

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

Editing images with diffusion models under strict training-free constraints remains a significant challenge. While recent optimisation-based methods achieve strong zero-shot edits from text, they struggle to preserve identity and capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Niki Foteinopoulou , Ignas Budvytis , Stephan Liwicki

Image generation has recently seen tremendous advances, with diffusion models allowing to synthesize convincing images for a large variety of text prompts. In this article, we propose DiffEdit, a method to take advantage of text-conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Guillaume Couairon , Jakob Verbeek , Holger Schwenk , Matthieu Cord

Controllable layout generation refers to the process of creating a plausible visual arrangement of elements within a graphic design (e.g., document and web designs) with constraints representing design intentions. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Jian Chen , Ruiyi Zhang , Yufan Zhou , Rajiv Jain , Zhiqiang Xu , Ryan Rossi , Changyou Chen

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in the domain of text-guided image generation and, more recently, in text-guided image editing. A commonly adopted strategy for editing real images involves inverting the diffusion process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Wonjun Kang , Kevin Galim , Hyung Il Koo

The remarkable image generation capabilities of state-of-the-art diffusion models, such as Stable Diffusion, can also be misused to spread misinformation and plagiarize copyrighted materials. To mitigate the potential risks associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Qiuyu Tang , Bonor Ayambem , Mooi Choo Chuah , Aparna Bharati

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

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, enabling the synthesis of highly detailed visuals from textual descriptions. However, these models may inadvertently generate inappropriate content, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Linlin Wang , Xin Yu , Longxiang Gao , Wanlei Zhou

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality images, yet their tendency to reproduce undesirable concepts, such as NSFW content, copyrighted styles, or specific objects, poses growing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zhiqi Zhang , Xinhao Zhong , Yi Sun , Shuoyang Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Xuan Wang

Discrete diffusion models have achieved success in tasks like image generation and masked language modeling but face limitations in controlled content editing. We introduce DICE (Discrete Inversion for Controllable Editing), the first…

Prompt-based models have demonstrated impressive prompt-following capability at image editing tasks. However, the models still struggle with following detailed editing prompts or performing local edits. Specifically, global image quality…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Kenan Tang , Yanhong Li , Yao Qin

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

Recent advances in diffusion models enable many powerful instruments for image editing. One of these instruments is text-driven image manipulations: editing semantic attributes of an image according to the provided text description. %…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Nikita Starodubcev , Dmitry Baranchuk , Valentin Khrulkov , Artem Babenko