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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

Concept erasure is extensively utilized in image generation to prevent text-to-image models from generating undesired content. Existing methods can effectively erase narrow concepts that are specific and concrete, such as distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuze Cai , Jiahao Lu , Hongxiang Shi , Yichao Zhou , Hong Lu

Despite their remarkable image generation capabilities, text-to-image diffusion models inadvertently learn inappropriate concepts from vast and unfiltered training data, which leads to various ethical and business risks. Specifically,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Mingyuan Fan , Cen Chen , Wenmeng Zhou , Yanhao Wang , Yaliang Li

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have revolutionized image generation, enabling the synthesis of highly detailed visuals from textual descriptions. However, these models may inadvertently generate inappropriate content, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Huiqiang Chen , Tianqing Zhu , Linlin Wang , Xin Yu , Longxiang Gao , Wanlei Zhou

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

Concept erasure aims to remove harmful, inappropriate, or copyrighted content from text-to-image diffusion models while preserving non-target semantics. However, existing methods either rely on costly fine-tuning or apply coarse semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Ning Han , Zhenyu Ge , Feng Han , Yuhua Sun , Chengqing Li , Jingjing Chen

Erase inpainting, or object removal, aims to precisely remove target objects within masked regions while preserving the overall consistency of the surrounding content. Despite diffusion-based methods have made significant strides in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Liu , Hao Zhou , Wenxiang Shang , Ran Lin , Benlei Cui

Recent research has seen significant interest in methods for concept removal and targeted forgetting in text-to-image diffusion models. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive white-box analysis showing the vulnerabilities in existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Aakash Sen Sharma , Niladri Sarkar , Vikram Chundawat , Ankur A Mali , Murari Mandal

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 techniques for text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models report substantial suppression of sensitive content, yet current evaluation is limited to checking whether the target concept is absent from generated frames, treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiwei Xie , Zheng Zhang , Ping Liu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality visual content from textual descriptions. However, since these models are trained on large-scale internet data, they inevitably learn undesirable concepts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anh Bui , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

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

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of these models can inadvertently led they to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye

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

Motivated by ethical and legal concerns, the scientific community is actively developing methods to limit the misuse of Text-to-Image diffusion models for reproducing copyrighted, violent, explicit, or personal information in the generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Vitali Petsiuk , Kate Saenko

Generating images from text has become easier because of the scaling of diffusion models and advancements in the field of vision and language. These models are trained using vast amounts of data from the Internet. Hence, they often contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved significant progress in text-to-image generation. However, the inevitable inclusion of sensitive information during pre-training poses safety risks, such as unsafe content generation and copyright…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Hongguang Zhu , Yunchao Wei , Mengyu Wang , Siyu Jiao , Yan Fang , Jiannan Huang , Yao Zhao

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jiaqi Liu , Lan Zhang , Xiaoyong Yuan

Diffusion based text-to-image models are trained on large datasets scraped from the Internet, potentially containing unacceptable concepts (e.g., copyright-infringing or unsafe). We need concept removal techniques (CRTs) which are i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anudeep Das , Vasisht Duddu , Rui Zhang , N. Asokan

While large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image-generation capabilities, there are significant concerns about their potential misuse for generating unsafe content, violating copyright, and perpetuating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ruchika Chavhan , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales