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Text-to-image diffusion models have shown unprecedented generative capability, but their ability to produce undesirable concepts (e.g.~pornographic content, sensitive identities, copyrighted styles) poses serious concerns for privacy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Finn Carter

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

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

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

Recent advancements in discrete image generation showed that scaling the VQ codebook size significantly improves reconstruction fidelity. However, training generative models with a large VQ codebook remains challenging, typically requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shufan Li , Jiuxiang Gu , Kangning Liu , Zhe Lin , Aditya Grover , Jason Kuen

Concept Erasure, which aims to prevent pretrained text-to-image models from generating content associated with semantic-harmful concepts (i.e., target concepts), is getting increased attention. State-of-the-art methods formulate this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hongxu Chen , Zhen Wang , Taoran Mei , Lin Li , Bowei Zhu , Runshi Li , Long Chen

Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image generative models, they are prone to adversarial attacks and inadvertently generate unsafe, unethical content. Existing approaches often rely on fine-tuning models to remove specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dahye Kim , Deepti Ghadiyaram

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 aims to selectively unlearning undesirable content in diffusion models (DMs) to reduce the risk of sensitive content generation. As a novel paradigm in concept erasure, most existing methods employ adversarial training to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qinghong Yin , Yu Tian , Heming Yang , Xiang Chen , Xianlin Zhang , Xueming Li , Yue Zhan

Fine-tuning based concept erasing has demonstrated promising results in preventing generation of harmful contents from text-to-image diffusion models by removing target concepts while preserving remaining concepts. To maintain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating the risk of harmful content generation in diffusion models by selectively unlearning undesirable concepts. The common principle of previous works to remove a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Long Vuong , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Junae Kim , Dinh Phung

While personalized text-to-image generation has enabled the learning of a single concept from multiple images, a more practical yet challenging scenario involves learning multiple concepts within a single image. However, existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han , Zhengyao Lv , Shihao Zhao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Robust concept removal for text-to-image (T2I) and text-to-video (T2V) models is essential for their safe deployment. Existing methods, however, suffer from costly retraining, inference overhead, or vulnerability to adversarial attacks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Shristi Das Biswas , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

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 models suffer from various safety issues that may limit their suitability for deployment. Previous methods have separately addressed individual issues of bias, copyright, and offensive content in text-to-image models. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Rohit Gandikota , Hadas Orgad , Yonatan Belinkov , Joanna Materzyńska , David Bau

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

Concept erasure serves as a vital safety mechanism for removing unwanted concepts from text-to-image (T2I) models. While extensively studied in U-Net and dual-stream architectures (e.g., Flux), this task remains under-explored in the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nanxiang Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Baisen Wang , Daiheng Gao , Junhang Cheng , Jifeng Guo , Yalan Qin , Yeying Jin , Hongwei Zheng , Faguo Wu , Wenjun Wu

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models deliver remarkable visual fidelity but pose safety risks due to their capacity to reproduce undesirable content, such as copyrighted ones. Concept erasure has emerged as a mitigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Hoigi Seo , Byung Hyun Lee , Jaehyun Cho , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun

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

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable generative performance about various concepts. With the limitation of privacy and safety in practice, the generative capability concerning NSFW (Not Safe For Work)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Jiahang Tu , Qian Feng , Jiahua Dong , Hanbin Zhao , Chao Zhang , Nicu Sebe , Hui Qian