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Despite the impressive capabilities of generating images, text-to-image diffusion models are susceptible to producing undesirable outputs such as NSFW content and copyrighted artworks. To address this issue, recent studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Chang Xu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models often inadvertently generate unwanted concepts such as watermarks and unsafe images. These concepts, termed as the "implicit concepts", could be unintentionally learned during training and then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhili Liu , Kai Chen , Yifan Zhang , Jianhua Han , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung , James Kwok

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating high-quality, diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, their ability to reproduce copyrighted styles, sensitive imagery, and harmful content raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Changhoon Kim , Yanjun Qi

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models aims to disable pre-trained diffusion models from generating images related to a target concept. To perform reliable concept erasure, the properties of robustness and locality are desirable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Chi-Pin Huang , Kai-Po Chang , Chung-Ting Tsai , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated the underlying risk of generating various unwanted content, such as sexual elements. To address this issue, the task of concept erasure has been introduced, aiming to erase any undesired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Xiaochuan Jin , Yueming Lyu , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

One of the pursued objectives of deep learning is to provide tools that learn abstract representations of reality from the observation of multiple contextual situations. More precisely, one wishes to extract disentangled representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Pierre Colombo , Nathan Noiry , Guillaume Staerman , Pablo Piantanida

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image generation capabilities, but also pose risks in privacy and fairness by memorizing sensitive concepts or perpetuating biases. We propose a novel \textbf{concept erasure} method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wang , Ze Niu , Dacheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

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

Text-to-Image diffusion models can produce undesirable content that necessitates concept erasure. However, existing methods struggle with under-erasure, leaving residual traces of targeted concepts, or over-erasure, mistakenly eliminating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuyang Xue , Edward Moroshko , Feng Chen , Jingyu Sun , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

The prevalent use of commercial and open-source diffusion models (DMs) for text-to-image generation prompts risk mitigation to prevent undesired behaviors. Existing concept erasing methods in academia are all based on full parameter or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Mengyao Lyu , Yuhong Yang , Haiwen Hong , Hui Chen , Xuan Jin , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Text-to-Image models such as Stable Diffusion have shown impressive image generation synthesis, thanks to the utilization of large-scale datasets. However, these datasets may contain sexually explicit, copyrighted, or undesirable content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Seunghoo Hong , Juhun Lee , Simon S. Woo

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

Machine learning models often make predictions based on biased features such as gender, race, and other social attributes, posing significant fairness risks, especially in societal applications, such as hiring, banking, and criminal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Yi Zhang , Dongyuan Lu , Jitao Sang

Traditional neural embeddings represent concepts as points, excelling at similarity but struggling with higher-level reasoning and asymmetric relationships. We introduce a novel paradigm: embedding concepts as linear subspaces. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gabriel Moreira , Zita Marinho , Manuel Marques , João Paulo Costeira , Chenyan Xiong

Remarkable progress in text-to-image diffusion models has brought a major concern about potentially generating images on inappropriate or trademarked concepts. Concept erasing has been investigated with the goals of deleting target concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Seunggyu Lee , Dong Un Kang , Se Young Chun

Over the last years, various sentence embedders have been an integral part in the success of current machine learning approaches to Natural Language Processing (NLP). Unfortunately, multiple sources have shown that the bias, inherent in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Philip Kenneweg , Sarah Schröder , Alexander Schulz , Barbara Hammer

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

Accurately aligning contextual representations in cross-lingual sentence embeddings is key for effective parallel data mining. A common strategy for achieving this alignment involves disentangling semantics and language in sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dayeon Ki , Cheonbok Park , Hyunjoong Kim

Diffusion models excel at generating visually striking content from text but can inadvertently produce undesirable or harmful content when trained on unfiltered internet data. A practical solution is to selectively removing target concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Long Vuong , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

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