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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…

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Diffusion models have become the go-to method for text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from pure noise. However, the inner workings of diffusion models is still largely a mystery due to their black-box nature and complex,…

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Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) inadvertently reproduce copyrighted styles and protected visual concepts, raising legal and ethical concerns. Concept erasure has emerged as a safeguard, aiming to selectively suppress such concepts…

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Diffusion models for text-to-image (T2I) synthesis, such as Stable Diffusion (SD), have recently demonstrated exceptional capabilities for generating high-quality content. However, this progress has raised several concerns of potential…

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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…

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Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have achieved great success in synthesizing high-quality and diverse images given target text prompts. Despite the revolutionary image generation ability, current state-of-the-art models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Jingyuan Zhu , Huimin Ma , Jiansheng Chen , Jian Yuan

The rapid growth of text-to-image diffusion models has raised concerns about their potential misuse in generating harmful or unauthorized contents. To address these issues, several Concept Erasure methods have been proposed. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kien Nguyen , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

Due to their ease of use and high accuracy, Word2Vec (W2V) word embeddings enjoy great success in the semantic representation of words, sentences, and whole documents as well as for semantic similarity estimation. However, they have the…

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Despite the rapid progress in image generation, emotional image editing remains under-explored. The semantics, context, and structure of an image can evoke emotional responses, making emotional image editing techniques valuable for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Qing Lin , Jingfeng Zhang , Yew-Soon Ong , Mengmi Zhang

The inherent ambiguity in defining visual concepts poses significant challenges for modern generative models, such as the diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models, in accurately learning concepts from a single image. Existing methods lack…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Fernando Julio Cendra , Kai Han

Counterfactual explanations (CEs) based on concepts are explanations that consider alternative scenarios to understand which high-level semantic features contributed to particular model predictions. In this work, we propose CEs based on the…

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While diffusion models excel at image generation, their growing adoption raises critical concerns about copyright issues and model transparency. Existing attribution methods identify training examples influencing an entire image, but fall…

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Estimating causal effects from observational data is inherently challenging due to the lack of observable counterfactual outcomes and even the presence of unmeasured confounding. Traditional methods often rely on restrictive, untestable…

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Ensuring that neural models used in real-world applications cannot infer sensitive information, such as demographic attributes like gender or race, from text representations is a critical challenge when fairness is a concern. We address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Antoine Saillenfest , Pirmin Lemberger

Despite recent advances in diffusion models, achieving reliable image generation and editing remains challenging due to the inherent diversity induced by stochastic noise in the sampling process. Instruction-guided image editing with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Joowon Kim , Ziseok Lee , Donghyeon Cho , Sanghyun Jo , Yeonsung Jung , Kyungsu Kim , Eunho Yang

Text-to-image (TTI) diffusion models have demonstrated impressive results in generating high-resolution images of complex and imaginative scenes. Recent approaches have further extended these methods with personalization techniques that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Tanzila Rahman , Shweta Mahajan , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jian Ren , Sergey Tulyakov , Leonid Sigal

Diffusion models have established themselves as the de facto primary paradigm in visual generative modeling, revolutionizing the field through remarkable success across various diverse applications ranging from high-quality image synthesis…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhiyu Tan , WenXu Qian , Hesen Chen , Mengping Yang , Lei Chen , Hao Li

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

This paper analyzes the impact of causal manner in the text encoder of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, which can lead to information bias and loss. Previous works have focused on addressing the issues through the denoising process.…

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We propose CatVersion, an inversion-based method that learns the personalized concept through a handful of examples. Subsequently, users can utilize text prompts to generate images that embody the personalized concept, thereby achieving…

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