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Recent research has seen significant interest in methods for concept removal and targeted forgetting in text-to-image diffusion models. In this paper, we conduct a comprehensive white-box analysis showing the vulnerabilities in existing…

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Recently, serious concerns have been raised about the privacy issues related to training datasets in machine learning algorithms when including personal data. Various regulations in different countries, including the GDPR grant individuals…

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As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly shape online content, removing targeted information from well-trained LLMs (also known as LLM unlearning) has become critical for web governance. A key challenge lies in sample-wise imbalance…

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Text-Aware Image Restoration (TAIR) aims to recover high-quality images from low-quality inputs containing degraded textual content. While diffusion models provide strong generative priors for general image restoration, they often produce…

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Machine unlearning (MUL) refers to the problem of making a pre-trained model selectively forget some training instances or class(es) while retaining performance on the remaining dataset. Existing MUL research involves fine-tuning using a…

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Machine learning methods rely on data. However, gathering suitable data can be challenging due to availability constraints, cost, or the need for domain expertise. Expanding datasets with additional sources is a common response to limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Xavier Cadet , Mateusz Nowak , Peter Chin

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

Zero-Shot Learning (ZSL) aims to recognise unseen object classes, which are not observed during the training phase. The existing body of works on ZSL mostly relies on pretrained visual features and lacks the explicit attribute localisation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Faisal Alamri , Anjan Dutta

Text-to-image diffusion models often memorize training data, revealing a fundamental failure to generalize beyond the training set. Current mitigation strategies typically sacrifice image quality or prompt alignment to reduce memorization.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Sathwik Karnik , Juyeop Kim , Sanmi Koyejo , Jong-Seok Lee , Somil Bansal

Machine unlearning has garnered significant attention due to its ability to selectively erase knowledge obtained from specific training data samples in an already trained machine learning model. This capability enables data holders to…

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Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high-quality images from textual prompts. However, their ability to store vast amounts of knowledge raises concerns in scenarios where selective forgetting…

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Vision-language-action (VLA) models are emerging as embodied foundation models for robotic manipulation, but their deployment introduces a new unlearning challenge: removing unsafe, spurious, or privacy-sensitive behaviors without degrading…

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Visual fine-tuning has garnered significant attention with the rise of pre-trained vision models. The current prevailing method, full fine-tuning, suffers from the issue of knowledge forgetting as it focuses solely on fitting the downstream…

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The rapid progress of AI, combined with its unprecedented public adoption and the propensity of large neural networks to memorize training data, has given rise to significant data privacy concerns. To address these concerns, machine…

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Text-to-video diffusion transformers encode semantic information unevenly across model depth, which constrains effective concept erasure. We identify a representational bottleneck, termed concept-layer topological alignment, under which…

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Reconstructing an accurate 3D object model from a few image observations remains a challenging problem in computer vision. State-of-the-art approaches typically assume accurate camera poses as input, which could be difficult to obtain in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Zhenpei Yang , Zhile Ren , Miguel Angel Bautista , Zaiwei Zhang , Qi Shan , Qixing Huang

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

Recent advances in one-step generative frameworks, such as flow map models, have significantly improved the efficiency of image generation by learning direct noise-to-data mappings in a single forward pass. However, machine unlearning for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hyundo Choi , Junhyeong An , Jinseong Park , Jaewoong Choi

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating photorealistic images. However, the inclusion of sensitive information during pre-training poses significant risks. Machine Unlearning (MU) offers a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Yongliang Wu , Shiji Zhou , Mingzhuo Yang , Lianzhe Wang , Heng Chang , Wenbo Zhu , Xinting Hu , Xiao Zhou , Xu Yang

The ability to selectively remove knowledge from medical segmentation networks is increasingly important for privacy compliance, ethical deployment, and continual dataset revision. We introduce Erase to Retain, a controllable unlearning…

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