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Image Generation models are a trending topic nowadays, with many people utilizing Artificial Intelligence models in order to generate images. There are many such models which, given a prompt of a text, will generate an image which depicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Udaya Shreyas , L. N. Aadarsh

Deployed text-to-image diffusion models increasingly require post-hoc concept unlearning for copyright claims, artist opt-outs, safety updates, and protected-content mitigation without full retraining. A central challenge is erase-retain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Ashutosh Ranjan , Vivek Srivastava , Shirish Karande , Murari Mandal

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 have fundamentally transformed the field of generative models, making the assessment of similarity between customized model outputs and reference inputs critically important. However, traditional perceptual similarity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Yiren Song , Xiaokang Liu , Mike Zheng Shou

How can we effectively unlearn selected concepts from pre-trained generative foundation models without resorting to extensive retraining? This research introduces `continual unlearning', a novel paradigm that enables the targeted removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

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

Recently, diffusion models have emerged as promising newcomers in the field of generative models, shining brightly in image generation. However, when employed for object removal tasks, they still encounter issues such as generating random…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Wenhao Sun , Benlei Cui , Xue-Mei Dong , Jingqun Tang

Custom diffusion models (CDMs) have attracted widespread attention due to their astonishing generative ability for personalized concepts. However, most existing CDMs unreasonably assume that personalized concepts are fixed and cannot change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jiahua Dong , Wenqi Liang , Hongliu Li , Duzhen Zhang , Meng Cao , Henghui Ding , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Diffusion models, widely used in image generation, rely on iterative refinement to generate images from noise. Understanding this data evolution is important for model development and interpretability, yet challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Vidya Prasad , Hans van Gorp , Christina Humer , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

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

Fine-tuning based concept erasing has demonstrated promising results in preventing generation of harmful contents from text-to-image diffusion models by removing target concepts while preserving remaining concepts. To maintain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun

Autoregressive and diffusion models represent two complementary generative paradigms. Autoregressive models excel at sequential planning and constraint composition, yet struggle with tasks that require explicit spatial or physical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mu Yuan , Liekang Zeng , Guoliang Xing , Lan Zhang , Yunhao Liu

While generative models produce high-quality images of concepts learned from a large-scale database, a user often wishes to synthesize instantiations of their own concepts (for example, their family, pets, or items). Can we teach a model to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Nupur Kumari , Bingliang Zhang , Richard Zhang , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

We introduce a novel approach for concept blending in pretrained text-to-image diffusion models, aiming to generate images at the intersection of multiple text prompts. At each time step during diffusion denoising, our algorithm forecasts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Divya Kothandaraman , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

The recent wave of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has dramatically increased our text-based image generation abilities. These models can generate realistic images for a staggering variety of prompts and exhibit impressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Alexander C. Li , Mihir Prabhudesai , Shivam Duggal , Ellis Brown , Deepak Pathak

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

Inversion methods, such as Textual Inversion, generate personalized images by incorporating concepts of interest provided by user images. However, existing methods often suffer from overfitting issues, where the dominant presence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xulu Zhang , Xiao-Yong Wei , Jinlin Wu , Tianyi Zhang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Zhen Lei , Qing Li

Deep generative models have garnered significant attention in low-level vision tasks due to their generative capabilities. Among them, diffusion model-based solutions, characterized by a forward diffusion process and a reverse denoising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Chunming He , Yuqi Shen , Chengyu Fang , Fengyang Xiao , Longxiang Tang , Yulun Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Zhenhua Guo , Xiu Li

Diffusion models have achieved success in high-fidelity data synthesis, yet their capacity for more complex, structured reasoning like text following tasks remains constrained. While advances in language models have leveraged strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yuwei Sun , Yuxuan Yao , Hui Li , Siyu Zhu

Adapting pretrained diffusion-based generative models for text-driven image editing with negligible tuning overhead has demonstrated remarkable potential. A classical adaptation paradigm, as followed by these methods, first infers the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jiahuan Wang , Yuxin Chen , Jun Yu , Guangming Lu , Wenjie Pei