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The growing concern over training data privacy has elevated the "Right to be Forgotten" into a critical requirement, thereby raising the demand for effective Machine Unlearning. However, existing unlearning approaches commonly suffer from a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Haoyu Wang , Zhuo Huang , Xiaolong Wang , Bo Han , Zhiwei Lin , Tongliang Liu

We propose a text-to-image generation algorithm based on deep neural networks when text captions for images are unavailable during training. In this work, instead of simply generating pseudo-ground-truth sentences of training images using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Minsoo Kang , Doyup Lee , Jiseob Kim , Saehoon Kim , Bohyung Han

Text-to-image diffusion models can generate diverse content with flexible prompts, which makes them well-suited for customization through fine-tuning with a small amount of user-provided data. However, controllable fine-tuning that prevents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Ziyao Zeng , Jingcheng Ni , Ruyi Liu , Alex Wong

Diffusion-based models have gained significant popularity for text-to-image generation due to their exceptional image-generation capabilities. A risk with these models is the potential generation of inappropriate content, such as biased or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Hang Li , Chengzhi Shen , Philip Torr , Volker Tresp , Jindong Gu

Custom diffusion models (CDMs) have attracted widespread attention due to their astonishing generative ability for personalized concepts. However, most existing CDMs unreasonably assume that personalized concepts are fixed and cannot change…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Jiahua Dong , Wenqi Liang , Hongliu Li , Duzhen Zhang , Meng Cao , Henghui Ding , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Text-to-image diffusion models have an unprecedented ability to generate diverse and high-quality images. However, they often struggle to faithfully capture the intended semantics of complex input prompts that include multiple subjects.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Omer Dahary , Or Patashnik , Kfir Aberman , Daniel Cohen-Or

Interpreting the inner workings of deep learning models is crucial for establishing trust and ensuring model safety. Concept-based explanations have emerged as a superior approach that is more interpretable than feature attribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Mara Graziani , Laura O' Mahony , An-Phi Nguyen , Henning Müller , Vincent Andrearczyk

Text-to-Image (T2I) models excel at synthesizing concepts such as nouns, appearances, and styles. To enable customized content creation based on a few example images of a concept, methods such as Textual Inversion and DreamBooth invert the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Saman Motamed , Danda Pani Paudel , Luc Van Gool

Visual concept learning, also known as Text-to-image personalization, is the process of teaching new concepts to a pretrained model. This has numerous applications from product placement to entertainment and personalized design. Here we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ori Malca , Dvir Samuel , Gal Chechik

The unlearning problem of deep learning models, once primarily an academic concern, has become a prevalent issue in the industry. The significant advances in text-to-image generation techniques have prompted global discussions on privacy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Eric Zhang , Kai Wang , Xingqian Xu , Zhangyang Wang , Humphrey Shi

We introduce Diff-Tracker, a novel approach for the challenging unsupervised visual tracking task leveraging the pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model. Our main idea is to leverage the rich knowledge encapsulated within the pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Zhengbo Zhang , Li Xu , Duo Peng , Hossein Rahmani , Jun Liu

We propose a concept-based adversarial attack framework that extends beyond single-image perturbations by adopting a probabilistic perspective. Rather than modifying a single image, our method operates on an entire concept - represented by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Andi Zhang , Xuan Ding , Steven McDonagh , Samuel Kaski

For the last decade, there has been a push to use multi-dimensional (latent) spaces to represent concepts; and yet how to manipulate these concepts or reason with them remains largely unclear. Some recent methods exploit multiple latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Lorenzo Olearo , Giorgio Longari , Simone Melzi , Alessandro Raganato , Rafael Peñaloza

Unlearning seeks to remove specific knowledge from large language models (LLMs), but its effectiveness remains contested. On one side, "forgotten" knowledge can often be recovered through interventions such as light fine-tuning; on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qingjie Zhang , Haoting Qian , Zhicong Huang , Cheng Hong , Minlie Huang , Ke Xu , Chao Zhang , Han Qiu

Text-to-image generative models can produce photo-realistic images for an extremely broad range of concepts, and their usage has proliferated widely among the general public. On the flip side, these models have numerous drawbacks, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Minh Pham , Kelly O. Marshall , Niv Cohen , Govind Mittal , Chinmay Hegde

Personalized text-to-image models allow users to generate varied styles of images (specified with a sentence) for an object (specified with a set of reference images). While remarkable results have been achieved using diffusion-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Fanyue Wei , Wei Zeng , Zhenyang Li , Dawei Yin , Lixin Duan , Wen Li

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

Techniques for concept extraction, such as sparse autoencoders and transcoders, aim to extract high-level symbolic concepts from low-level nonsymbolic representations. When these extracted concepts are used for downstream tasks such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Chandler Squires , Pradeep Ravikumar

The widespread adoption of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has raised concerns about their potential to generate copyrighted, inappropriate, or sensitive imagery. As a practical solution, machine unlearning aims to erase unwanted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Kaiyuan Deng , Bo Hui , Gen Li , Jie Ji , Minghai Qin , Geng Yuan , Xiaolong Ma

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in generating diverse and realistic images from textual descriptions. However, they still struggle with personalization, which requires adapting a pretrained model to depict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Seoyun Yang , Gihoon Kim , Taesup Kim