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The exceptional generative capability of text-to-image models has raised substantial safety concerns regarding the generation of Not-Safe-For-Work (NSFW) content and potential copyright infringement. To address these concerns, previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Feng Han , Kai Chen , Chao Gong , Zhipeng Wei , Jingjing Chen , Yu-Gang Jiang

We introduce a new attack paradigm that embeds hidden adversarial capabilities directly into diffusion models via fine-tuning, without altering their observable behavior or requiring modifications during inference. Unlike prior approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lucas Beerens , Desmond J. Higham

Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly impacted the trajectory of generative machine learning research, with many adopting the strategy of fine-tuning pre-trained models using domain-specific text-to-image datasets.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Mischa Dombrowski , Hadrien Reynaud , Johanna P. Müller , Matthew Baugh , Bernhard Kainz

Large-scale text-to-image diffusion models excel in generating high-quality images from textual inputs, yet concerns arise as research indicates their tendency to memorize and replicate training data, raising We also addressed the issue of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Ruchika Chavhan , Ondrej Bohdal , Yongshuo Zong , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

*Concept-based explanations* offer a promising approach for explaining the predictions of deep neural networks in terms of high-level, human-understandable concepts. However, existing methods either do not establish a causal connection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Ronaldo Canizales , Divya Gopinath , Corina Păsăreanu , Ravi Mangal

Text-to-image generative models can produce diverse high-quality images of concepts with a text prompt, which have demonstrated excellent ability in image generation, image translation, etc. We in this work study the problem of synthesizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Gan Sun , Wenqi Liang , Jiahua Dong , Jun Li , Zhengming Ding , Yang Cong

In this paper, we extend the study of concept ablation within pre-trained models as introduced in 'Ablating Concepts in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models' by (Kumari et al.,2022). Our work focuses on reproducing the results achieved by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Shivank Garg , Manyana Tiwari

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

Customized text-to-image generation, which aims to learn user-specified concepts with a few images, has drawn significant attention recently. However, existing methods usually suffer from overfitting issues and entangle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Yufei Cai , Yuxiang Wei , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Hu Han , Wangmeng Zuo

Autoregressive (AR) models have achieved unified and strong performance across both visual understanding and image generation tasks. However, removing undesired concepts from AR models while maintaining overall generation quality remains an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Haipeng Fan , Shiyuan Zhang , Baohunesitu , Zihang Guo , Huaiwen 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

Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image generative models, they are prone to adversarial attacks and inadvertently generate unsafe, unethical content. Existing approaches often rely on fine-tuning models to remove specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Dahye Kim , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Video object removal aims to eliminate target objects from videos while plausibly completing missing regions and preserving spatio-temporal consistency. Although diffusion models have recently advanced this task, it remains challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Dingming Liu , Wenjing Wang , Chen Li , Jing Lyu

A creative idea is often born from transforming, combining, and modifying ideas from existing visual examples capturing various concepts. However, one cannot simply copy the concept as a whole, and inspiration is achieved by examining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yael Vinker , Andrey Voynov , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ariel Shamir

A single text prompt passed to a diffusion model often yields a wide range of visual outputs determined solely by stochastic process, leaving users with no direct control over which specific semantic variations appear in the image. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Paweł Skierś , Tomasz Trzciński , Kamil Deja

Concept erasure serves as a vital safety mechanism for removing unwanted concepts from text-to-image (T2I) models. While extensively studied in U-Net and dual-stream architectures (e.g., Flux), this task remains under-explored in the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nanxiang Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Baisen Wang , Daiheng Gao , Junhang Cheng , Jifeng Guo , Yalan Qin , Yeying Jin , Hongwei Zheng , Faguo Wu , Wenjun Wu

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising approach to mitigate undesired or unsafe content in diffusion models, yet existing methods still face significant limitations. While training-based methods are effective, their high computational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yuhao Sun , Lingyun Yu , Haoxiang Xu , Fengyuan Miao , Zhuoer Xu , Hongtao Xie

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

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generating high-quality images but also raise people's concerns about generating harmful or misleading content. While extensive approaches have been proposed to erase…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Zhihua Tian , Sirun Nan , Ming Xu , Shengfang Zhai , Wenjie Qu , Jian Liu , Ruoxi Jia , Jiaheng Zhang

Large-scale image generation models, with impressive quality made possible by the vast amount of data available on the Internet, raise social concerns that these models may generate harmful or copyrighted content. The biases and harmfulness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Sanghyun Kim , Seohyeon Jung , Balhae Kim , Moonseok Choi , Jinwoo Shin , Juho Lee