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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

Concept erasure techniques have recently gained significant attention for their potential to remove unwanted concepts from text-to-image models. While these methods often demonstrate promising results in controlled settings, their…

Studies have been conducted to prevent specific concepts from being generated from pretrained text-to-image generative models, achieving concept erasure in various ways. However, the performance evaluation of these studies is still largely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

Recent advance in text-to-image diffusion models have significantly facilitated the generation of high-quality images, but also raising concerns about the illegal creation of harmful content, such as copyrighted images. Existing concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Zihao Wang , Yuxiang Wei , Fan Li , Renjing Pei , Hang Xu , Wangmeng Zuo

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images, but their reliance on large-scale unlabeled data has raised significant safety and copyright concerns. Efforts to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Yanfei Dong , Yixuan Wu , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

Text-to-video diffusion transformers encode semantic information unevenly across model depth, which constrains effective concept erasure. We identify a representational bottleneck, termed concept-layer topological alignment, under which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

Removing undesired concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models while preserving overall generative quality remains a major challenge, particularly as modern models such as Stable Diffusion v3,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhaoxin Fan , Nanxiang Jiang , Daiheng Gao , Shiji Zhou , Wenjun Wu

Concept erasure is the task of erasing information about a concept (e.g., gender or race) from a representation set while retaining the maximum possible utility -- information from original representations. Concept erasure is useful in…

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

Text-to-image generative models have achieved impressive fidelity and diversity, but can inadvertently produce unsafe or undesirable content due to implicit biases embedded in large-scale training datasets. Existing concept erasure methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jun Li , Lizhi Xiong , Ziqiang Li , Weiwei Jiang , Zhangjie Fu , Yong Li , Guo-Sen Xie

To what extent does concept erasure eliminate generative capacity in diffusion models? While prior evaluations have primarily focused on measuring concept suppression under specific textual prompts, we explore a complementary and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ping Liu , Chi Zhang

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

While modern generative models such as diffusion-based architectures have enabled impressive creative capabilities, they also raise important safety and ethical risks. These concerns have led to growing interest in concept erasure, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chi Zhang , Jingpu Cheng , Zhixian Wang , Ping Liu

Text-to-image models encounter safety issues, including concerns related to copyright and Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content. Despite several methods have been proposed for erasing inappropriate concepts from diffusion models, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chao Gong , Kai Chen , Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

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

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

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

The rapid progress of visual autoregressive (VAR) models has brought new opportunities for text-to-image generation, but also heightened safety concerns. Existing concept erasure techniques, primarily designed for diffusion models, fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Xinhao Zhong , Yimin Zhou , Zhiqi Zhang , Junhao Li , Yi Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Xuan Wang , Ke Xu

Text-to-image generative models can produce photo-realistic images for an extremely broad range of concepts, and their usage has proliferated widely among the general public. On the flip side, these models have numerous drawbacks, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Minh Pham , Kelly O. Marshall , Niv Cohen , Govind Mittal , Chinmay Hegde

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
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