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Text-to-image diffusion models (DMs) are frequently abused to produce harmful or copyrighted content, violating public interests. Concept erasure (unlearning) is a promising paradigm to alleviate this issue. However, there exists a peculiar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Manyi Li , Yufan Liu , Lai Jiang , Bing Li , Yuming Li , Weiming Hu

Single-image reflection removal is a highly ill-posed problem, where existing methods struggle to reason about the composition of corrupted regions, causing them to fail at recovery and generalization in the wild. This work reframes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mingjia Li , Jin Hu , Hainuo Wang , Qiming Hu , Jiarui Wang , Xiaojie Guo

Machine unlearning aims to remove the influence of specific training data from a model without requiring full retraining. This capability is crucial for ensuring privacy, safety, and regulatory compliance. Therefore, verifying whether a…

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Psychological scale refinement traditionally relies on response-based methods such as factor analysis, item response theory, and network psychometrics to optimize item composition. Although rigorous, these approaches require large samples…

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The growing sophistication of synthetic image and deepfake generation models has turned source attribution and authenticity verification into a critical challenge for modern computer vision systems. Recent studies suggest that diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Claudio Giusti , Luca Guarnera , Sebastiano Battiato

Deep learning models have achieved remarkable success in different areas of machine learning over the past decade; however, the size and complexity of these models make them difficult to understand. In an effort to make them more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Vikram V. Ramaswamy , Sunnie S. Y. Kim , Nicole Meister , Ruth Fong , Olga Russakovsky

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos. However, their capability to produce explicit or harmful content introduces new challenges related to misuse and potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaoyu Ye , Songjie Cheng , Yongtao Wang , Yajiao Xiong , Yishen Li

The rapid proliferation of large-scale text-to-image diffusion (T2ID) models has raised serious concerns about their potential misuse in generating harmful content. Although numerous methods have been proposed for erasing undesired concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Koushik Srivatsan , Fahad Shamshad , Muzammal Naseer , Vishal M. Patel , Karthik Nandakumar

Language models trained on web-scale corpora risk memorizing and exposing sensitive information, prompting the need for effective machine unlearning. Prior methods mainly focus on input queries to suppress sensitive outputs, yet this often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Junbeom Kim , Kyuyoung Kim , Jihoon Tack , Dongha Lim , Jinwoo Shin

Motivated by recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion, we study erasure of specific concepts from the model's weights. While Stable Diffusion has shown promise in producing explicit or realistic artwork, it has raised concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rohit Gandikota , Joanna Materzynska , Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman , David Bau

With recent text-to-image models, anyone can generate deceptively realistic images with arbitrary contents, fueling the growing threat of visual disinformation. A key enabler for generating high-resolution images with low computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jonas Ricker , Denis Lukovnikov , Asja Fischer

Modern large-scale Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) have achieved tremendous success on a wide range of downstream tasks. However, most of the LM pre-training objectives only focus on text reconstruction, but have not sought to learn…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Liliang Ren , Zixuan Zhang , Han Wang , Clare R. Voss , Chengxiang Zhai , Heng Ji

Text-to-image models encounter safety issues, including concerns related to copyright and Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content. Despite several methods have been proposed for erasing inappropriate concepts from diffusion models, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Chao Gong , Kai Chen , Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

Multimodal LLMs are powerful but prone to object hallucinations, which describe non-existent entities and harm reliability. While recent unlearning methods attempt to mitigate this, we identify a critical flaw: structural fragility. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xianya Fang , Feiyang Ren , Xiang Chen , Yu Tian , Zhen Bi , Haiyang Yu , Sheng-Jun Huang

Large language models (LLMs) enhanced with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) have introduced a new paradigm for web search. However, the limited context awareness of LLMs degrades their performance on RAG tasks. Existing methods to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Tao Tan , Yining Qian , Ang Lv , Hongzhan Lin , Songhao Wu , Yongbo Wang , Feng Wang , Jingtong Wu , Xin Lu , Rui Yan

Machine unlearning has the potential to improve the safety of large language models (LLMs) by removing sensitive or harmful information post hoc. A key challenge in unlearning involves balancing between forget quality (effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shengyuan Hu , Neil Kale , Pratiksha Thaker , Yiwei Fu , Steven Wu , Virginia Smith

Latent diffusion models (LDMs) power state-of-the-art high-resolution generative image models. LDMs learn the data distribution in the latent space of an autoencoder (AE) and produce images by mapping the generated latents into RGB image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Tariq Berrada , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Marton Havasi , Yohann Benchetrit , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Karteek Alahari , Michal Drozdzal , Jakob Verbeek

Concept erasure is the task of erasing information about a concept (e.g., gender or race) from a representation set while retaining the maximum possible utility -- information from original representations. Concept erasure is useful in…

Diffusion models have recently been investigated as powerful generative solvers for image dehazing, owing to their remarkable capability to model the data distribution. However, the massive computational burden imposed by the retraining of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Zizheng Yang , Hu Yu , Bing Li , Jinghao Zhang , Jie Huang , Feng Zhao

Large language models handle single-turn generation well, but multi-turn interactions still require the model to reconstruct user intent and task state from an expanding token history because internal representations do not persist across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Vishwas Hegde , Vindhya Shigehalli