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Concept erasing has recently emerged as an effective paradigm to prevent text-to-image diffusion models from generating visually undesirable or even harmful content. However, current removal methods heavily rely on manually crafted text…

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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

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models is crucial for mitigating harmful content, yet existing methods often compromise generative quality. We introduce Semantic Surgery, a novel training-free, zero-shot framework for concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Lexiang Xiong , Chengyu Liu , Jingwen Ye , Yan Liu , Yuecong Xu

As text-to-image diffusion models grow increasingly prevalent, the ability to remove specific concepts-mostly explicit content and many copyrighted characters or styles-has become essential for safety and compliance. Existing unlearning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Junyeong Ahn , Seojin Yoon , Sungyong Baik

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

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality visual content from textual descriptions. However, since these models are trained on large-scale internet data, they inevitably learn undesirable concepts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anh Bui , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

As large-scale diffusion models continue to advance, they excel at producing high-quality images but often generate unwanted content, such as sexually explicit or violent content. Existing methods for concept removal generally guide the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Lingyun Zhang , Yu Xie , Yanwei Fu , Ping Chen

Large text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image synthesis capabilities, but their indiscriminate training on Internet-scale data has led to learned concepts that enable harmful, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Finn Carter

Text-to-image diffusion models have made significant advancements in generating high-quality, diverse images from text prompts. However, the inherent limitations of textual signals often prevent these models from fully capturing specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Ziqiang Li , Jun Li , Lizhi Xiong , Zhangjie Fu , Zechao Li

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

Erasing concepts from large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has become increasingly crucial due to the growing concerns over copyright infringement, offensive content, and privacy violations. In scalable applications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Ouxiang Li , Yuan Wang , Xinting Hu , Houcheng Jiang , Yanbin Hao , Fuli Feng

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

Large-scale diffusion models, known for their impressive image generation capabilities, have raised concerns among researchers regarding social impacts, such as the imitation of copyrighted artistic styles. In response, existing approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Mengnan Zhao , Lihe Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Yuqiu Kong , Baocai Yin

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown an impressive ability to generate high-quality images from input textual descriptions. However, concerns have been raised about the potential for these models to create content that infringes on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Tingxu Han , Weisong Sun , Yanrong Hu , Chunrong Fang , Yonglong Zhang , Shiqing Ma , Tao Zheng , Zhenyu Chen , Zhenting Wang

Machine unlearning for text-to-image diffusion models aims to selectively remove undesirable concepts from pre-trained models without costly retraining. Current unlearning methods share a common weakness: erased concepts return when the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Aljalila Aladawi , Mohammed Talha Alam , Fakhri Karray

The rapid growth of text-to-image diffusion models has raised concerns about their potential misuse in generating harmful or unauthorized contents. To address these issues, several Concept Erasure methods have been proposed. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kien Nguyen , Anh Tran , Cuong Pham

The prevalent use of commercial and open-source diffusion models (DMs) for text-to-image generation prompts risk mitigation to prevent undesired behaviors. Existing concept erasing methods in academia are all based on full parameter or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Mengyao Lyu , Yuhong Yang , Haiwen Hong , Hui Chen , Xuan Jin , Yuan He , Hui Xue , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have seen rapid and widespread adoption. However, their powerful generative capabilities raise concerns about potential misuse for synthesizing harmful, private, or copyrighted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Uichan Lee , Jeonghyeon Kim , Sangheum Hwang

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

Text-to-image diffusion models sometimes depict blended concepts in the generated images. One promising use case of this effect would be the nonword-to-image generation task which attempts to generate images intuitively imaginable from a…

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