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Diffusion models have shown remarkable abilities in generating realistic and high-quality images from text prompts. However, a trained model remains largely black-box; little do we know about the roles of its components in exhibiting a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Quang H. Nguyen , Hoang Phan , Khoa D. Doan

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

Recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion models have brought them to the public spotlight, becoming widely accessible and embraced by everyday users. However, these models have been shown to generate harmful content such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Anubhav Jain , Yuya Kobayashi , Takashi Shibuya , Yuhta Takida , Nasir Memon , Julian Togelius , Yuki Mitsufuji

The notion of concept drift refers to the phenomenon that the distribution generating the observed data changes over time. If drift is present, machine learning models can become inaccurate and need adjustment. While there do exist methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Fabian Hinder , Valerie Vaquet , Johannes Brinkrolf , Barbara Hammer

There is strong empirical evidence that the state-of-the-art diffusion modeling paradigm leads to models that memorize the training set, especially when the training set is small. Prior methods to mitigate the memorization problem often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kulin Shah , Alkis Kalavasis , Adam R. Klivans , Giannis Daras

Denoising diffusion models represent a recent emerging topic in computer vision, demonstrating remarkable results in the area of generative modeling. A diffusion model is a deep generative model that is based on two stages, a forward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Florinel-Alin Croitoru , Vlad Hondru , Radu Tudor Ionescu , Mubarak Shah

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

Model customization introduces new concepts to existing text-to-image models, enabling the generation of these new concepts/objects in novel contexts. However, such methods lack accurate camera view control with respect to the new object,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Nupur Kumari , Grace Su , Richard Zhang , Taesung Park , Eli Shechtman , Jun-Yan Zhu

Large multimodal models such as Stable Diffusion can generate, detect, and classify new visual concepts after fine-tuning just a single word embedding. Do models learn similar words for the same concepts (i.e. <orange-cat> = orange + cat)?…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Brandon Trabucco , Max Gurinas , Kyle Doherty , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Diffusion models have been successfully adapted to text generation tasks by mapping the discrete text into the continuous space. However, there exist nonnegligible gaps between training and inference, owing to the absence of the forward…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Zecheng Tang , Pinzheng Wang , Keyan Zhou , Juntao Li , Ziqiang Cao , Min Zhang

Concept erasure in Text-To-Image (T2I) diffusion models is vital for safe content generation, but existing inference-time methods face significant limitations. Feature-correction approaches often cause uncontrolled over-correction, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qinghui Gong

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jiahang Tu , Ye Li , Yiming Wu , Hanbin Zhao , Chao Zhang , Hui Qian

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Text-to-image diffusion models achieve impressive visual fidelity, yet they remain unreliable in multi-object generation. Despite extensive empirical evidence of these failures, the underlying causes remain unclear. We begin by asking how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Yujin Jeong , Arnas Uselis , Iro Laina , Seong Joon Oh , Anna Rohrbach

Instruction-based unlearning has proven effective for modifying the behavior of large language models at inference time, but whether this paradigm extends to other generative models remains unclear. In this work, we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Zeliang Zhang , Rui Sun , Jiani Liu , Qi Wu , Chenliang Xu

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating photorealistic images. However, the inclusion of sensitive information during pre-training poses significant risks. Machine Unlearning (MU) offers a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yongliang Wu , Shiji Zhou , Mingzhuo Yang , Lianzhe Wang , Heng Chang , Wenbo Zhu , Xinting Hu , Xiao Zhou , Xu Yang

Text-to-image diffusion models sometimes depict blended concepts in the generated images. One promising use case of this effect would be the nonword-to-image generation task which attempts to generate images intuitively imaginable from a…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Chihaya Matsuhira , Marc A. Kastner , Takahiro Komamizu , Takatsugu Hirayama , Ichiro Ide

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

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

Pruning-based unlearning has recently emerged as a fast, training-free, and data-independent approach to remove undesired concepts from diffusion models. It promises high efficiency and robustness, offering an attractive alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ci Zhang , Zhaojun Ding , Chence Yang , Jun Liu , Xiaoming Zhai , Shaoyi Huang , Beiwen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Jin Lu , Geng Yuan
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