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Despite their impressive generative capabilities, text-to-image diffusion models often memorize and replicate training data, prompting serious concerns over privacy and copyright. Recent work has attributed this memorization to an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Hyeonggeun Han , Sehwan Kim , Hyungjun Joo , Sangwoo Hong , Jungwoo Lee

Images generated by diffusion models like Stable Diffusion are increasingly widespread. Recent works and even lawsuits have shown that these models are prone to replicating their training data, unbeknownst to the user. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Gowthami Somepalli , Vasu Singla , Micah Goldblum , Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

In this work, we study the generalizability of diffusion models by looking into the hidden properties of the learned score functions, which are essentially a series of deep denoisers trained on various noise levels. We observe that as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xiang Li , Yixiang Dai , Qing Qu

Diffusion models can unintentionally memorize training samples, raising concerns about privacy and copyright. While recent methods can detect memorization, they often rely on global or model-specific signals and provide limited insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Gwangho Kim , Sungyoon Lee

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images thanks to their novel training procedures applied to unprecedented amounts of data. However, training a diffusion model from scratch is computationally…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Michał Zając , Kamil Deja , Anna Kuzina , Jakub M. Tomczak , Tomasz Trzciński , Florian Shkurti , Piotr Miłoś

AI models present a wide range of applications in the field of medicine. However, achieving optimal performance requires access to extensive healthcare data, which is often not readily available. Furthermore, the imperative to preserve…

Diffusion models have shown strong performance in generating high-quality tabular data, but they carry privacy risks by reproducing exact training samples. While prior work focuses on dataset-level augmentation to reduce memorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhengyu Fang , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoge Zhang , Kaiyu Tang , Xiao Li , Jing Li

Despite their wide adoption, the underlying training and memorization dynamics of very large language models is not well understood. We empirically study exact memorization in causal and masked language modeling, across model sizes and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Kushal Tirumala , Aram H. Markosyan , Luke Zettlemoyer , Armen Aghajanyan

We propose a simple, training-free mechanism which explains the generalization behaviour of diffusion models. By comparing pre-trained diffusion models to their theoretically optimal empirical counterparts, we identify a shared local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Matthew Niedoba , Berend Zwartsenberg , Kevin Murphy , Frank Wood

The past few years have witnessed substantial advances in image generation powered by diffusion models. However, it was shown that diffusion models are susceptible to training data memorization, raising significant concerns regarding…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Zhe Ma , Qingming Li , Xuhong Zhang , Tianyu Du , Ruixiao Lin , Zonghui Wang , Shouling Ji , Wenzhi Chen

Tabular data generation has attracted significant research interest in recent years, with the tabular diffusion models greatly improving the quality of synthetic data. However, while memorization, where models inadvertently replicate exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhengyu Fang , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiao Li , Jing Li

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee

Diffusion-based image generative models produce high-fidelity images through iterative denoising but remain vulnerable to memorization, where they unintentionally reproduce exact copies or parts of training images. Recent memorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rohan Asthana , Vasileios Belagiannis

Diffusion models learn to restore noisy data, which is corrupted with different levels of noise, by optimizing the weighted sum of the corresponding loss terms, i.e., denoising score matching loss. In this paper, we show that restoring data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Jooyoung Choi , Jungbeom Lee , Chaehun Shin , Sungwon Kim , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated an exceptional ability to produce highly realistic images. However, previous studies show that generated images often resemble the training data, and this problem becomes more severe as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Er Jin , Yang Zhang , Yongli Mou , Yanfei Dong , Stefan Decker , Kenji Kawaguchi , Johannes Stegmaier

Denoising diffusion models, a class of generative models, have garnered immense interest lately in various deep-learning problems. A diffusion probabilistic model defines a forward diffusion stage where the input data is gradually perturbed…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-06 Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Moein Heidari , Reza Azad , Mohsen Fayyaz , Ilker Hacihaliloglu , Dorit Merhof

Diffusion models excel in generating images that closely resemble their training data but are also susceptible to data memorization, raising privacy, ethical, and legal concerns, particularly in sensitive domains such as medical imaging. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Raman Dutt , Ondrej Bohdal , Pedro Sanchez , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

Multimodal machine learning, especially text-to-image models like Stable Diffusion and DALL-E 3, has gained significance for transforming text into detailed images. Despite their growing use and remarkable generative capabilities, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ali Naseh , Jaechul Roh , Amir Houmansadr

Real-world datasets are inherently heterogeneous, yet how per-class structural differences and sampling imbalance shape the training dynamics of diffusion models-and potentially exacerbate disparities-remains poorly understood. While models…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Flavio Nicoletti , Chenxiao Ma , Enrico Ventura , Luca Saglietti , Stefano Sarao Mannelli

Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art image generation but remain computationally costly due to iterative denoising. Latent-space models like Stable Diffusion reduce overhead yet lose fine detail, while retrieval-augmented methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Bilal Faye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah