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In the text-to-image generation field, recent remarkable progress in Stable Diffusion makes it possible to generate rich kinds of novel photorealistic images. However, current models still face misalignment issues (e.g., problematic spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Leigang Qu , Shengqiong Wu , Hao Fei , Liqiang Nie , Tat-Seng Chua

Text-to-image generative models such as Stable Diffusion and DALL$\cdot$E raise many ethical concerns due to the generation of harmful images such as Not-Safe-for-Work (NSFW) ones. To address these ethical concerns, safety filters are often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Yuchen Yang , Bo Hui , Haolin Yuan , Neil Gong , Yinzhi Cao

Text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced creative content generation, yet their reliance on large uncurated datasets often reproduces societal biases. We present FairT2I, a training-free and interactive framework grounded in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinya Sakurai , Yuki Koyama , Issei Sato

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have been a ground-breaking development in generating convincing images following an input text prompt. The goal of image editing research is to give users control over the generated images by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Chuanming Tang , Kai Wang , Joost van de Weijer

Text-to-image (T2I) models can generate not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content, motivating multi-stage safety pipelines with both text and image filters. Newer LLM-based filters detect latent intent beyond keywords, making token-level…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zixuan Chen , Hao Lin , Ke Xu , Xinghao Jiang , Tanfeng Sun

Text-guided diffusion models (TDMs) are widely applied but can fail unexpectedly. Common failures include: (i) natural-looking text prompts generating images with the wrong content, or (ii) different random samples of the latent variables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Qihao Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Yutong Bai , Song Bai , Alan Yuille

Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models (DMs) have garnered widespread attention for their impressive advancements in image generation. However, their growing popularity has raised ethical and social concerns related to key non-functional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Yi Zhang , Zhen Chen , Chih-Hong Cheng , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Dezong Zhao , David Flynn , Siddartha Khastgir , Xingyu Zhao

In text-to-image generation, different initial noises induce distinct denoising paths with a pretrained Stable Diffusion (SD) model. While this pattern could output diverse images, some of them may fail to align well with the prompt.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yunze Tong , Didi Zhu , Zijing Hu , Jinluan Yang , Ziyu Zhao

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in rapid and high-fidelity personalization, even when provided with only a few user images. However, the effectiveness of personalization techniques has lead to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Naresh Kumar Devulapally , Shruti Agarwal , Tejas Gokhale , Vishnu Suresh Lokhande

Conditional diffusion models have shown remarkable performance in various generative tasks, but training them requires large-scale datasets that often contain noise in conditional inputs, a.k.a. noisy labels. This noise leads to condition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Byeonghu Na , Yeongmin Kim , HeeSun Bae , Jung Hyun Lee , Se Jung Kwon , Wanmo Kang , Il-Chul Moon

The rapid advancement of Text-to-Image(T2I) generative models has enabled the synthesis of high-quality images guided by textual descriptions. Despite this significant progress, these models are often susceptible in generating contents that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yichen Sun , Zhixuan Chu , Zhan Qin , Kui Ren

Semantic image synthesis aims to generate high-quality images given semantic conditions, i.e. segmentation masks and style reference images. Existing methods widely adopt generative adversarial networks (GANs). GANs take all conditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Feng Liu , Xiaobin Chang

In the past years, we have witnessed the remarkable success of Text-to-Image (T2I) models and their widespread use on the web. Extensive research in making T2I models produce hyper-realistic images has led to new concerns, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Muhammad Shahid Muneer , Simon S. Woo

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models often inadvertently generate unwanted concepts such as watermarks and unsafe images. These concepts, termed as the "implicit concepts", could be unintentionally learned during training and then be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Zhili Liu , Kai Chen , Yifan Zhang , Jianhua Han , Lanqing Hong , Hang Xu , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung , James Kwok

Despite the integration of safety alignment and external filters, text-to-image (T2I) generative systems are still susceptible to producing harmful content, such as sexual or violent imagery. This raises serious concerns about unintended…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Boheng Li , Junjie Wang , Yiming Li , Zhiyang Hu , Leyi Qi , Jianshuo Dong , Run Wang , Han Qiu , Zhan Qin , Tianwei Zhang

This paper explores a novel lightweight approach LightFair to achieve fair text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs) by addressing the adverse effects of the text encoder. Most existing methods either couple different parts of the diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Boyu Han , Qianqian Xu , Shilong Bao , Zhiyong Yang , Kangli Zi , Qingming Huang

The diffusion model has provided a strong tool for implementing text-to-image (T2I) and image-to-image (I2I) generation. Recently, topology and texture control are popular explorations, e.g., ControlNet, IP-Adapter, Ctrl-X, and DSG. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jia Li , Nan Gao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is a popular AI-generated content (AIGC) technology enabling diverse and creative image synthesis. However, some outputs may contain Not Safe For Work (NSFW) content (e.g., violence), violating community…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mingrui Liu , Sixiao Zhang , Cheng Long

Despite the proliferation of generative models, achieving fast sampling during inference without compromising sample diversity and quality remains challenging. Existing models such as Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM) deliver…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Yanwu Xu , Mingming Gong , Shaoan Xie , Wei Wei , Matthias Grundmann , Kayhan Batmanghelich , Tingbo Hou