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Concept erasure aims to selectively unlearning undesirable content in diffusion models (DMs) to reduce the risk of sensitive content generation. As a novel paradigm in concept erasure, most existing methods employ adversarial training to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Qinghong Yin , Yu Tian , Heming Yang , Xiang Chen , Xianlin Zhang , Xueming Li , Yue Zhan

Diffusion models excel at generating visually striking content from text but can inadvertently produce undesirable or harmful content when trained on unfiltered internet data. A practical solution is to selectively removing target concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Long Vuong , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

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

Despite the impressive capabilities of generating images, text-to-image diffusion models are susceptible to producing undesirable outputs such as NSFW content and copyrighted artworks. To address this issue, recent studies have focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Tianyun Yang , Juan Cao , Chang Xu

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating the risk of harmful content generation in diffusion models by selectively unlearning undesirable concepts. The common principle of previous works to remove a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Long Vuong , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Junae Kim , Dinh Phung

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models aims to disable pre-trained diffusion models from generating images related to a target concept. To perform reliable concept erasure, the properties of robustness and locality are desirable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Chi-Pin Huang , Kai-Po Chang , Chung-Ting Tsai , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models has raised significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the generation of copyrighted or harmful images. In response, concept erasure (defense) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Alex D. Richardson , Kaicheng Zhang , Lucas Beerens , Dongdong Chen

In concept erasure, a model is modified to selectively prevent it from generating a target concept. Despite the rapid development of new methods, it remains unclear how thoroughly these approaches remove the target concept from the model.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Kevin Lu , Nicky Kriplani , Rohit Gandikota , Minh Pham , David Bau , Chinmay Hegde , Niv Cohen

Diffusion models have achieved unprecedented success in image generation but pose increasing risks in terms of privacy, fairness, and security. A growing demand exists to \emph{erase} sensitive or harmful concepts (e.g., NSFW content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wen , Le Ku , Daheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Robust invisible watermarking aims to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark can survive various image manipulations. However, the rise of powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques poses a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Yunyi Ni , Finn Carter , Ze Niu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image generation capabilities, but also pose risks in privacy and fairness by memorizing sensitive concepts or perpetuating biases. We propose a novel \textbf{concept erasure} method for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Zixuan Fu , Yan Ren , Finn Carter , Chenyue Wang , Ze Niu , Dacheng Yu , Emily Davis , Bo Zhang

To what extent does concept erasure eliminate generative capacity in diffusion models? While prior evaluations have primarily focused on measuring concept suppression under specific textual prompts, we explore a complementary and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Ping Liu , Chi Zhang

Concept erasure in Text-To-Image (T2I) diffusion models is vital for safe content generation, but existing inference-time methods face significant limitations. Feature-correction approaches often cause uncontrolled over-correction, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qinghui Gong

Robust invisible watermarking schemes aim to embed hidden information into images such that the watermark survives common manipulations. However, powerful diffusion-based image generation and editing techniques now pose a new threat to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Fan Guo , Jiyu Kang , Qi Ming , Emily Davis , Finn Carter

Concept Erasure, which aims to prevent pretrained text-to-image models from generating content associated with semantic-harmful concepts (i.e., target concepts), is getting increased attention. State-of-the-art methods formulate this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hongxu Chen , Zhen Wang , Taoran Mei , Lin Li , Bowei Zhu , Runshi Li , Long Chen

Text-to-Image models such as Stable Diffusion have shown impressive image generation synthesis, thanks to the utilization of large-scale datasets. However, these datasets may contain sexually explicit, copyrighted, or undesirable content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Seunghoo Hong , Juhun Lee , Simon S. Woo

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images, but their reliance on large-scale unlabeled data has raised significant safety and copyright concerns. Efforts to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Yanfei Dong , Yixuan Wu , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation capabilities, yet they raise significant concerns regarding safety, copyright, and ethical implications. Existing concept erasure methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yi Sun , Xinhao Zhong , Hongyan Li , Yimin Zhou , Junhao Li , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang

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

Remarkable progress in text-to-image diffusion models has brought a major concern about potentially generating images on inappropriate or trademarked concepts. Concept erasing has been investigated with the goals of deleting target concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Seunggyu Lee , Dong Un Kang , Se Young Chun
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