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As large-scale diffusion models continue to advance, they excel at producing high-quality images but often generate unwanted content, such as sexually explicit or violent content. Existing methods for concept removal generally guide the…

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Erasing harmful or proprietary concepts from powerful text to image generators is an emerging safety requirement, yet current "concept erasure" techniques either collapse image quality, rely on brittle adversarial losses, or demand…

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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

Concept erasure serves as a vital safety mechanism for removing unwanted concepts from text-to-image (T2I) models. While extensively studied in U-Net and dual-stream architectures (e.g., Flux), this task remains under-explored in the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nanxiang Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Baisen Wang , Daiheng Gao , Junhang Cheng , Jifeng Guo , Yalan Qin , Yeying Jin , Hongwei Zheng , Faguo Wu , Wenjun Wu

Advanced text-to-image diffusion models raise safety concerns regarding identity privacy violation, copyright infringement, and Not Safe For Work content generation. Towards this, unlearning methods have been developed to erase these…

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Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of these models can inadvertently led they to…

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The rapid expansion of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has raised growing concerns regarding their potential misuse in creating harmful or misleading content. In this paper, we introduce MACE, a finetuning framework for the task…

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Text-to-image diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to generate high-quality images from input textual descriptions. However, concerns have been raised about the potential for these models to create content that infringes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Tingxu Han , Weisong Sun , Yanrong Hu , Chunrong Fang , Yonglong Zhang , Shiqing Ma , Tao Zheng , Zhenyu Chen , Zhenting Wang

Concept erasure techniques have been widely deployed in T2I diffusion models to prevent inappropriate content generation for safety and copyright considerations. However, as models evolve to next-generation architectures like Flux,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Daiheng Gao , Nanxiang Jiang , Andi Zhang , Shilin Lu , Yufei Tang , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Zhaoxin Fan

The success of diffusion models has raised concerns about the generation of unsafe or harmful content, prompting concept erasure approaches that fine-tune modules to suppress specific concepts while preserving general generative…

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Diffusion-based text-to-image models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating realistic images, but they raise societal and ethical concerns, such as the creation of unsafe content. While concept editing is proposed to…

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Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, their ability to store vast amounts of knowledge raises concerns in scenarios where selective forgetting…

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Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

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Diffusion models (DMs) are widely used for text-to-image generation, but their strong generative capabilities also raise concerns about unsafe or undesirable content. Concept erasure aims to mitigate these risks by removing specific…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mengyu Sun , Ziyuan Yang , Zunlong Zhou , Junxu Liu , Haibo Hu , Yi Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant advancements in generating high-quality, diverse images from text prompts. However, the inherent limitations of textual signals often prevent these models from fully capturing specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ziqiang Li , Jun Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu , Zechao Li

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have enabled impressive generative capabilities, but they also raise significant safety concerns due to the potential to produce harmful or undesirable content. While concept erasure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nanxiang Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Enhan Kang , Daiheng Gao , Yun Zhou , Yanxia Chang , Zheng Zhu , Yeying Jin , Wenjun Wu

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

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

Concept erasing has recently emerged as an effective paradigm to prevent text-to-image diffusion models from generating visually undesirable or even harmful content. However, current removal methods heavily rely on manually crafted text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Feiran Li , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Xiaochun Cao , Qingming Huang

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden messages into images such that they survive various manipulations while remaining imperceptible. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing models now enable realistic…

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