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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

Erasing harmful or proprietary concepts from powerful text to image generators is an emerging safety requirement, yet current "concept erasure" techniques either collapse image quality, rely on brittle adversarial losses, or demand…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Abhiram Kusumba , Maitreya Patel , Kyle Min , Changhoon Kim , Chitta Baral , Yezhou Yang

Machine unlearning poses challenges in removing mislabeled, contaminated, or problematic data from a pretrained model. Current unlearning approaches and evaluation metrics are solely focused on model predictions, which limits insight into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Khoa Tran , Simon S. Woo

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

Machine Unlearning has recently garnered significant attention, aiming to selectively remove knowledge associated with specific data while preserving the model's performance on the remaining data. A fundamental challenge in this process is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Gaurav Patel , Qiang Qiu

The rapid advancement of text-to-image Diffusion Models has led to their widespread public accessibility. However these models, trained on large internet datasets, can sometimes generate undesirable outputs. To mitigate this, approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Andrea Schioppa , Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek

Diffusion models are renowned for their state-of-the-art performance in generating synthetic images. However, concerns related to safety, privacy, and copyright highlight the need for machine unlearning, which can make diffusion models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Xun Yuan , Zilong Zhao , Jiayu Li , Aryan Pasikhani , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

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

Machine unlearning--the ability to remove designated concepts from a pre-trained model--has advanced rapidly, particularly for text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods typically assume that unlearning requests arrive all at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Justin Lee , Zheda Mai , Jinsu Yoo , Chongyu Fan , Cheng Zhang , Wei-Lun Chao

As a means to balance the growth of the AI industry with the need for privacy protection, machine unlearning plays a crucial role in realizing the ``right to be forgotten'' in artificial intelligence. This technique enables AI systems to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Eun-Ju Park , Youjin Shin , Simon S. Woo

Machine learning and data systems increasingly function as infrastructures of memory: they ingest, store, and operationalize traces of personal, political, and cultural life. Yet contemporary governance demands credible forms of forgetting,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Viktoriia Makovska , George Fletcher , Julia Stoyanovich , Tetiana Zakharchenko

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Liran Cohen , Yaniv Nemcovesky , Avi Mendelson

We propose new methodologies for both unlearning random set of samples and class unlearning and show that they outperform existing methods. The main driver of our unlearning methods is the similarity of predictions to a retrained model on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Ali Ebrahimpour-Boroojeny

As generative models become increasingly powerful and pervasive, the ability to unlearn specific data, whether due to privacy concerns, legal requirements, or the correction of harmful content, has become increasingly important. Unlike in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Pinak Mandal , Georg A. Gottwald

Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse images but suffer from training data memorization, raising critical privacy and safety concerns. Data unlearning has emerged to mitigate this issue by removing the influence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Qitan Shi , Cheng Jin , Jiawei Zhang , Yuantao Gu

Machine unlearning (MU), which seeks to erase the influence of specific unwanted data from already-trained models, is becoming increasingly vital in model editing, particularly to comply with evolving data regulations like the ``right to be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Changchang Sun , Ren Wang , Yihua Zhang , Jinghan Jia , Jiancheng Liu , Gaowen Liu , Yan Yan , Sijia Liu

Concept erasure helps stop diffusion models (DMs) from generating harmful content; but current methods face robustness retention trade off. Robustness means the model fine-tuned by concept erasure methods resists reactivation of erased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fengpeng Li , Kemou Li , Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Jiantao Zhou

The powerful generative capabilities of diffusion models have raised growing privacy and safety concerns regarding generating sensitive or undesired content. In response, machine unlearning (MU) -- commonly referred to as concept erasure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xinwen Cheng , Jingyuan Zhang , Zhehao Huang , Yingwen Wu , Xiaolin Huang

The expansion of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has raised growing concerns about their potential to generate undesirable or harmful content, ranging from fabricated depictions of public figures to sexually explicit images. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jonas Henry Grebe , Tobias Braun , Marcus Rohrbach , Anna Rohrbach

During pretraining, LLMs inadvertently memorize sensitive or copyrighted data, posing significant compliance challenges under legal frameworks like the GDPR and the EU AI Act. Fulfilling these mandates demands techniques that can remove…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Efstratios Zaradoukas , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci