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Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

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Diffusion models have become the go-to method for text-to-image generation, producing high-quality images from pure noise. However, the inner workings of diffusion models is still largely a mystery due to their black-box nature and complex,…

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The rapid advancement of photorealistic Text-to-Video (T2V) generation brings in an urgent need for up-to-date evaluation methods. Existing benchmarks largely overlooked implausible scenarios and do not measure audio-visual alignment. We…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Advait Tilak , Jiwon Choi , Nazifa Mouli , Wei Le

Large-scale text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have been extended for text-guided video editing, yielding impressive zero-shot video editing performance. Nonetheless, the generated videos usually show spatial irregularities and temporal…

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Fine-tuning based concept erasing has demonstrated promising results in preventing generation of harmful contents from text-to-image diffusion models by removing target concepts while preserving remaining concepts. To maintain the…

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As text-to-image models grow increasingly powerful and complex, their burgeoning size presents a significant obstacle to widespread adoption, especially on resource-constrained devices. This paper presents a pioneering study on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Samarth N Ramesh , Zhixue Zhao

Recent advances in diffusion generative models have yielded remarkable progress. While the quality of generated content continues to improve, these models have grown considerably in size and complexity. This increasing computational burden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Reza Shirkavand , Peiran Yu , Shangqian Gao , Gowthami Somepalli , Tom Goldstein , Heng Huang

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

Diffusion based text-to-image models are trained on large datasets scraped from the Internet, potentially containing unacceptable concepts (e.g., copyright-infringing or unsafe). We need concept removal techniques (CRTs) which are i)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anudeep Das , Vasisht Duddu , Rui Zhang , N. Asokan

Standard Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) excel at discovering a dictionary of a model's learned features, offering a powerful observational lens. However, the ambiguous and ungrounded nature of these features makes them unreliable instruments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Jianrong Ding , Muxi Chen , Chenchen Zhao , Qiang Xu

Diffusion models (DMs) have achieved remarkable success in text-to-image generation, but they also pose safety risks, such as the potential generation of harmful content and copyright violations. The techniques of machine unlearning, also…

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Diffusion models (DMs) have become the new trend of generative models and have demonstrated a powerful ability of conditional synthesis. Among those, text-to-image diffusion models pre-trained on large-scale image-text pairs are highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Wenliang Zhao , Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Benlin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Diffusion models, widely used in image generation, rely on iterative refinement to generate images from noise. Understanding this data evolution is important for model development and interpretability, yet challenging due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Vidya Prasad , Hans van Gorp , Christina Humer , Ruud J. G. van Sloun , Anna Vilanova , Nicola Pezzotti

The rapid expansion of large-scale text-to-image diffusion models has raised growing concerns regarding their potential misuse in creating harmful or misleading content. In this paper, we introduce MACE, a finetuning framework for the task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shilin Lu , Zilan Wang , Leyang Li , Yanzhu Liu , Adams Wai-Kin Kong

Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models (DMs) have shown impressive abilities in generating high-quality images based on simple text descriptions. However, as is common with many Deep Learning (DL) models, DMs are subject to a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yi Zhang , Yun Tang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Siddartha Khastgir , Paul Jennings , Xingyu Zhao

Unsupervised visual object tracking is a challenging task that requires following arbitrary targets in videos without training on ground-truth annotations. Despite considerable progress, existing state-of-the-art unsupervised trackers often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Zhengbo Zhang , Zhigang Tu , Junsong Yuan , De Wen Soh , Bo Du

Referring Video Object Segmentation (RVOS) aims to segment specific objects in a video according to textual descriptions. We observe that recent RVOS approaches often place excessive emphasis on feature extraction and temporal modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Ruixin Zhang , Jiaqing Fan , Yifan Liao , Qian Qiao , Fanzhang Li

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in generating high quality image and video data. More recently, they have also been used for image compression with high perceptual quality. In this paper, we present a novel approach to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Bohan Li , Yiming Liu , Xueyan Niu , Bo Bai , Lei Deng , Deniz Gündüz

Most text-to-video(T2V) diffusion models depend on pre-trained text encoders for semantic alignment, yet they often fail to maintain video quality when provided with concise prompts rather than well-designed ones. The primary issue lies in…

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