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Recent advances in flow matching models have significantly improved text-to-image generation quality, but also introduce growing safety risks due to the generation of harmful or undesirable content. Existing concept erasure methods are…

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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

Text-to-image diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of diffusion models can inadvertently lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Yuexiang Xie , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye , Yingda Chen , Yaliang Li

Concept erasure is extensively utilized in image generation to prevent text-to-image models from generating undesired content. Existing methods can effectively erase narrow concepts that are specific and concrete, such as distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuze Cai , Jiahao Lu , Hongxiang Shi , Yichao Zhou , Hong Lu

While personalized text-to-image generation has enabled the learning of a single concept from multiple images, a more practical yet challenging scenario involves learning multiple concepts within a single image. However, existing works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Shaozhe Hao , Kai Han , Zhengyao Lv , Shihao Zhao , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent advances in generative models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing high-quality images, but their reliance on large-scale unlabeled data has raised significant safety and copyright concerns. Efforts to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yang Zhang , Er Jin , Yanfei Dong , Yixuan Wu , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Johannes Stegmaier , Kenji Kawaguchi

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

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

Text-to-image diffusion models may generate harmful or copyrighted content, motivating research on concept erasure. However, existing approaches primarily focus on erasing concepts from text prompts, overlooking other input modalities that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ju-Hsuan Weng , Jia-Wei Liao , Cheng-Fu Chou , Jun-Cheng Chen

We present a novel approach for single-image mesh texturing, which employs a diffusion model with judicious conditioning to seamlessly transfer an object's texture from a single RGB image to a given 3D mesh object. We do not assume that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sai Raj Kishore Perla , Yizhi Wang , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Hao Zhang

Text-to-image models exhibit remarkable capabilities in image generation. However, they also pose safety risks of generating harmful content. A key challenge of existing concept erasure methods is the precise removal of target concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qinqin He , Jiaqi Weng , Jialing Tao , Hui Xue

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

Concept unlearning aims to erase a target concept from a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model without retraining. Closed-form methods are attractive in this setting because they apply a single deterministic edit to the cross-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Saemi Moon , Suhyeon Jun , Seoyeon Lee , Dongwoo Kim

While large-scale text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated impressive image-generation capabilities, there are significant concerns about their potential misuse for generating unsafe content, violating copyright, and perpetuating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Ruchika Chavhan , Da Li , Timothy Hospedales

Concept erasure aims to remove specified features from an embedding. It can improve fairness (e.g. preventing a classifier from using gender or race) and interpretability (e.g. removing a concept to observe changes in model behavior). We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Nora Belrose , David Schneider-Joseph , Shauli Ravfogel , Ryan Cotterell , Edward Raff , Stella Biderman

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

Text-to-image diffusion models (T2I DMs), represented by Stable Diffusion, which generate highly realistic images based on textual input, have been widely used, but their flexibility also makes them prone to misuse for producing harmful or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Chaoshuo Zhang , Chenhao Lin , Zhengyu Zhao , Le Yang , Qian Wang , Chao Shen

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in generating images that closely correspond to textual prompts. However, the advancement of T2I diffusion models presents significant risks, as the models could be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Jie Ren , Kangrui Chen , Yingqian Cui , Shenglai Zeng , Hui Liu , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang , Lingjuan Lyu

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

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have gained widespread application across various domains, demonstrating remarkable creative potential. However, the strong generalization capabilities of these models can inadvertently led they to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Die Chen , Zhiwen Li , Cen Chen , Xiaodan Li , Jinyan Ye