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Instruction-based unlearning has proven effective for modifying the behavior of large language models at inference time, but whether this paradigm extends to other generative models remains unclear. In this work, we investigate…

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Image Generation models are a trending topic nowadays, with many people utilizing Artificial Intelligence models in order to generate images. There are many such models which, given a prompt of a text, will generate an image which depicts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Udaya Shreyas , L. N. Aadarsh

The widespread use of diffusion models has led to an abundance of AI-generated data, raising concerns about model collapse -- a phenomenon in which recursive iterations of training on synthetic data lead to performance degradation. Prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Lianghe Shi , Meng Wu , Huijie Zhang , Zekai Zhang , Molei Tao , Qing Qu

Concept unlearning has emerged as a promising direction for reducing the risks of harmful content generation in text-to-image diffusion models by selectively erasing undesirable concepts from a model's parameters. Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Duc Hao Pham , Van Duy Truong , Duy Khanh Dinh , Tien Cuong Nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Tuan Anh Bui

Personalizing text-to-image diffusion models involves integrating novel visual concepts from a small set of reference images while retaining the model's original generative capabilities. However, this process often leads to overfitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gihoon Kim , Hyungjin Park , Taesup Kim

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved impressive image generation quality and are increasingly fine-tuned for personalized applications. However, these models often inherit unsafe behaviors from toxic pretraining data, raising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Boheng Li , Renjie Gu , Junjie Wang , Leyi Qi , Yiming Li , Run Wang , Zhan Qin , Tianwei Zhang

Traditional machine learning assumes a stationary data distribution, yet many real-world applications operate on nonstationary streams in which the underlying concept evolves over time. This problem can also be viewed as task-free continual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Michal Wozniak , Marek Klonowski , Maciej Maczynski , Bartosz Krawczyk

With the advancement of computer vision and natural language processing, text-to-video generation, enabled by text-to-video diffusion models, has become more prevalent. These models are trained using a large amount of data from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Shiqi Liu , Yihua Tan

Recent works demonstrate a remarkable ability to customize text-to-image diffusion models while only providing a few example images. What happens if you try to customize such models using multiple, fine-grained concepts in a sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 James Seale Smith , Yen-Chang Hsu , Lingyu Zhang , Ting Hua , Zsolt Kira , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

How can we effectively unlearn selected concepts from pre-trained generative foundation models without resorting to extensive retraining? This research introduces `continual unlearning', a novel paradigm that enables the targeted removal of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kartik Thakral , Tamar Glaser , Tal Hassner , Mayank Vatsa , Richa Singh

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Xiaoxuan Han , Songlin Yang , Wei Wang , Yang Li , Jing Dong

Text-to-image diffusion models often memorize training data, revealing a fundamental failure to generalize beyond the training set. Current mitigation strategies typically sacrifice image quality or prompt alignment to reduce memorization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sathwik Karnik , Juyeop Kim , Sanmi Koyejo , Jong-Seok Lee , Somil Bansal

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have shown surprising performance in generating high-quality images. However, concerns have arisen regarding the unauthorized data usage during the training or fine-tuning process. One example is when a…

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Modern neural translation models based on the Transformer architecture are known for their high performance, particularly when trained on high-resource datasets. A standard next-token prediction training strategy, while widely adopted in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Evgeniia Tokarchuk , Maya K. Nachesa , Sergey Troshin , Vlad Niculae

Large-scale text-to-image models have demonstrated amazing ability to synthesize diverse and high-fidelity images. However, these models are often violated by several limitations. Firstly, they require the user to provide precise and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Yupei Lin , Sen Zhang , Xiaojun Yang , Xiao Wang , Yukai Shi

Text guided diffusion models are used by millions of users, but can be easily exploited to produce harmful content. Concept unlearning methods aim at reducing the models' likelihood of generating harmful content. Traditionally, this has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Mansi , Avinash Kori , Francesca Toni , Soteris Demetriou

Recent advances in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have heightened concerns about their potential misuse, especially in generating harmful or misleading content. This underscores the urgent need for effective machine unlearning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Agnieszka Polowczyk , Alicja Polowczyk , Dawid Malarz , Artur Kasymov , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

As text-to-image diffusion models gain widespread commercial applications, there are increasing concerns about unethical or harmful use, including the unauthorized generation of copyrighted or sensitive content. Concept unlearning has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Saemi Moon , Minjong Lee , Sangdon Park , Dongwoo Kim

Continual learning is a setting where machine learning models learn novel concepts from continuously shifting training data, while simultaneously avoiding degradation of knowledge on previously seen classes which may disappear from the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-05 James Seale Smith , Junjiao Tian , Shaunak Halbe , Yen-Chang Hsu , Zsolt Kira

Machine Unlearning has emerged as a critical area in artificial intelligence, addressing the need to selectively remove learned data from machine learning models in response to data privacy regulations. This paper provides a comprehensive…