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Evaluating generative models for synthetic medical imaging is crucial yet challenging, especially given the high standards of fidelity, anatomical accuracy, and safety required for clinical applications. Standard evaluation of generated…

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Many segmentation tasks, such as medical image segmentation or future state prediction, are inherently ambiguous, meaning that multiple predictions are equally correct. Current methods typically rely on generative models to capture this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Sebastian Gerard , Josephine Sullivan

Concept erasure aims to remove specified features from an embedding. It can improve fairness (e.g. preventing a classifier from using gender or race) and interpretability (e.g. removing a concept to observe changes in model behavior). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nora Belrose , David Schneider-Joseph , Shauli Ravfogel , Ryan Cotterell , Edward Raff , Stella Biderman

Adaptive and flexible image editing is a desirable function of modern generative models. In this work, we present a generative model with auto-encoder architecture for per-region style manipulation. We apply a code consistency loss to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Ansheng You , Chenglin Zhou , Qixuan Zhang , Lan Xu

We present Thinking with Generated Images, a novel paradigm that fundamentally transforms how large multimodal models (LMMs) engage with visual reasoning by enabling them to natively think across text and vision modalities through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ethan Chern , Zhulin Hu , Steffi Chern , Siqi Kou , Jiadi Su , Yan Ma , Zhijie Deng , Pengfei Liu

End-to-end generative methods are considered a more promising solution for image restoration in physics-based vision compared with the traditional deconstructive methods based on handcrafted composition models. However, existing generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Xudong Kang , Haoran Xie , Man-Leung Wong , Jing Qin

Neuromorphic vision sensors offer low latency and high dynamic range, but their deployment in public spaces raises severe data protection concerns. Recent Event-to-Video (E2V) models can reconstruct high-fidelity intensity images from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Adam T. Müller , Mihai Kocsis , Nicolaj C. Stache

Recent advances in generative modeling have led to an increased interest in the study of statistical divergences as means of model comparison. Commonly used evaluation methods, such as the Frechet Inception Distance (FID), correlate well…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-30 Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi , Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Olivier Bousquet , Sylvain Gelly

The recent proliferation of photorealistic images created by generative models has sparked both excitement and concern, as these images are increasingly indistinguishable from real ones to the human eye. While offering new creative and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoyue Bai , Yiyou Sun , Wei Cheng , Haifeng Chen

Generative models such as denoising diffusion models are quickly advancing their ability to approximate highly complex data distributions. They are also increasingly leveraged in scientific machine learning, where samples from the implied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Jan-Hendrik Bastek , WaiChing Sun , Dennis M. Kochmann

A multitude of prevalent pre-trained models mark a major milestone in the development of artificial intelligence, while fine-tuning has been a common practice that enables pretrained models to figure prominently in a wide array of target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yunqiao Yang , Long-Kai Huang , Ying Wei

Text-to-image diffusion models may generate harmful or copyrighted content, motivating research on concept erasure. However, existing approaches primarily focus on erasing concepts from text prompts, overlooking other input modalities that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ju-Hsuan Weng , Jia-Wei Liao , Cheng-Fu Chou , Jun-Cheng Chen

Concept erasure has emerged as a key research direction for ensuring safe and ethical image synthesis in Text-to-Image (T2I) models. While existing studies have explored concept erasure across multiple concepts, they typically assume only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junseok Ko , Jungwoo Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

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

Diffusion models have achieved impressive advancements in various vision tasks. However, these gains often rely on increasing model size, which escalates computational complexity and memory demands, complicating deployment, raising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Wenzhong Liang , Yanfei Dong , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

Text-to-image generative models have made significant advancements in recent years; however, accurately capturing intricate details in textual prompts-such as entity missing, attribute binding errors, and incorrect relationships remains a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Amir Mohammad Izadi , Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini , Soroush Vafaie Tabar , Ali Abdollahi , Armin Saghafian , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation, but they also pose safety risks, such as the potential generation of harmful content and copyright violations. The techniques of machine unlearning, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yimeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinghan Jia , Yihua Zhang , Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Mingyi Hong , Ke Ding , Sijia Liu

Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Divya Kothandaraman , Jaclyn Pytlarz

Image recognition systems have demonstrated tremendous progress over the past few decades thanks, in part, to our ability of learning compact and robust representations of images. As we witness the wide spread adoption of these systems, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Proteek Chandan Roy , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti

The impressive capability of modern text-to-image models to generate realistic visuals has come with a serious drawback: they can be misused to create harmful, deceptive or unlawful content. This has accelerated the push for machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Joanna Waczyńska , Piotr Borycki , Przemysław Spurek