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Text-to-image diffusion models, which are theoretically equivalent to score-based generative models, generate images through a multi-step denoising process guided by text embeddings extracted from pretrained vision-language models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Seung Hyuk Lee , Songkuk Kim

Text-guided diffusion models have revolutionized generative tasks by producing high-fidelity content from text descriptions. They have also enabled an editing paradigm where concepts can be replaced through text conditioning (e.g., a dog to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Chao Huang , Susan Liang , Yunlong Tang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

Recently, diffusion-based image generation methods are credited for their remarkable text-to-image generation capabilities, while still facing challenges in accurately generating multilingual scene text images. To tackle this problem, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Lingjun Zhang , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Yue Lu , Yu Qiao

Concept erasure has emerged as a key research direction for ensuring safe and ethical image synthesis in Text-to-Image (T2I) models. While existing studies have explored concept erasure across multiple concepts, they typically assume only a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Junseok Ko , Jungwoo Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

We propose DeCoDi, a debiasing procedure for text-to-image diffusion-based models that changes the inference procedure, does not significantly change image quality, has negligible compute overhead, and can be applied in any diffusion-based…

Concept erasure aims to suppress sensitive content in diffusion models, but recent studies show that erased concepts can still be reawakened, revealing vulnerabilities in erasure methods. Existing reawakening methods mainly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mengyu Sun , Ziyuan Yang , Andrew Beng Jin Teoh , Junxu Liu , Haibo Hu , Yi Zhang

Recent advances in flow matching models have significantly improved text-to-image generation quality, but also introduce growing safety risks due to the generation of harmful or undesirable content. Existing concept erasure methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yi Sun , Zhiqi Zhang , Xinhao Zhong , Yimin Zhou , Shuoyang Sun , Bin Chen , Shu-Tao Xia , Ke Xu

The widespread adoption of text-to-image (T2I) generation has raised concerns about privacy, bias, and copyright violations. Concept erasure techniques offer a promising solution by selectively removing undesired concepts from pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Lu Wei , Yuta Nakashima , Noa Garcia

Diffusion models have dramatically advanced text-to-image generation in recent years, translating abstract concepts into high-fidelity images with remarkable ease. In this work, we examine whether they can also blend distinct concepts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lorenzo Olearo , Giorgio Longari , Alessandro Raganato , Rafael Peñaloza , Simone Melzi

Although text-to-image diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative power, concept erasure techniques are essential for their safe deployment to prevent the creation of harmful content. This has fostered a dynamic interplay between the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Qianlong Xiang , Miao Zhang , Haoyu Zhang , Kun Wang , Junhui Hou , Liqiang Nie

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

Scene text editing is a challenging task that involves modifying or inserting specified texts in an image while maintaining its natural and realistic appearance. Most previous approaches to this task rely on style-transfer models that crop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiabao Ji , Guanhua Zhang , Zhaowen Wang , Bairu Hou , Zhifei Zhang , Brian Price , Shiyu Chang

Object removal has so far been dominated by the mask-and-inpaint paradigm, where the masked region is excluded from the input, leaving models relying on unmasked areas to inpaint the missing region. However, this approach lacks contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Longtao Jiang , Zhendong Wang , Jianmin Bao , Wengang Zhou , Dongdong Chen , Lei Shi , Dong Chen , Houqiang Li

Concept erasure aims to remove specified features from an embedding. It can improve fairness (e.g. preventing a classifier from using gender or race) and interpretability (e.g. removing a concept to observe changes in model behavior). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nora Belrose , David Schneider-Joseph , Shauli Ravfogel , Ryan Cotterell , Edward Raff , Stella Biderman

As generative models expand the possibilities of visual content creation, layered image synthesis has emerged as a promising direction for controllable and creative editing. However, existing methods struggle to fully realize this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kyoungkook Kang , Gyujin Sim , Sunghyun Cho

Modern neural models trained on textual data rely on pre-trained representations that emerge without direct supervision. As these representations are increasingly being used in real-world applications, the inability to \emph{control} their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Shauli Ravfogel , Michael Twiton , Yoav Goldberg , Ryan Cotterell

Text-to-image diffusion models suffer from the risk of generating outdated, copyrighted, incorrect, and biased content. While previous methods have mitigated the issues on a small scale, it is essential to handle them simultaneously in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Tianwei Xiong , Yue Wu , Enze Xie , Yue Wu , Zhenguo Li , Xihui Liu

Editing images with diffusion models under strict training-free constraints remains a significant challenge. While recent optimisation-based methods achieve strong zero-shot edits from text, they struggle to preserve identity and capture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Niki Foteinopoulou , Ignas Budvytis , Stephan Liwicki

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation, but they also pose safety risks, such as the potential generation of harmful content and copyright violations. The techniques of machine unlearning, also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yimeng Zhang , Xin Chen , Jinghan Jia , Yihua Zhang , Chongyu Fan , Jiancheng Liu , Mingyi Hong , Ke Ding , Sijia Liu

Denoising diffusion models have emerged as a dominant approach for image generation, however they still suffer from slow convergence in training and color shift issues in sampling. In this paper, we identify that these obstacles can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Hu Yu , Li Shen , Jie Huang , Hongsheng Li , Feng Zhao