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As Text-to-Image models continue to evolve, so does the risk of generating unsafe, copyrighted, or privacy-violating content. Existing safety interventions - ranging from training data curation and model fine-tuning to inference-time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shristi Das Biswas , Arani Roy , Kaushik Roy

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Aakash Sen Sharma , Niladri Sarkar , Vikram Chundawat , Ankur A Mali , Murari Mandal

Erasing specific concepts from text-to-image diffusion models is essential for avoiding the generation of copyrighted and explicit content. Closed-form concept erasure methods offer a fast alternative to backpropagation-based techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nicola Novello , Andrea M. Tonello

Remarkable progress in text-to-image diffusion models has brought a major concern about potentially generating images on inappropriate or trademarked concepts. Concept erasing has been investigated with the goals of deleting target concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Seunggyu Lee , Dong Un Kang , Se Young Chun

Large text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable image synthesis capabilities, but their indiscriminate training on Internet-scale data has led to learned concepts that enable harmful, copyrighted, or otherwise undesirable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Finn Carter

Concept unlearning has emerged as a promising direction for reducing the risks of harmful content generation in text-to-image diffusion models by selectively erasing undesirable concepts from a model's parameters. Existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Duc Hao Pham , Van Duy Truong , Duy Khanh Dinh , Tien Cuong Nguyen , Dien Hy Ngo , Tuan Anh Bui

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capability in generating high-quality visual content from textual descriptions. However, since these models are trained on large-scale internet data, they inevitably learn undesirable concepts,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Anh Bui , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

Concept Erasure, which aims to prevent pretrained text-to-image models from generating content associated with semantic-harmful concepts (i.e., target concepts), is getting increased attention. State-of-the-art methods formulate this task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hongxu Chen , Zhen Wang , Taoran Mei , Lin Li , Bowei Zhu , Runshi Li , Long Chen

Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generation capabilities, yet they raise significant concerns regarding safety, copyright, and ethical implications. Existing concept erasure methods address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yi Sun , Xinhao Zhong , Hongyan Li , Yimin Zhou , Junhao Li , Bin Chen , Xuan Wang

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

While modern generative models such as diffusion-based architectures have enabled impressive creative capabilities, they also raise important safety and ethical risks. These concerns have led to growing interest in concept erasure, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chi Zhang , Jingpu Cheng , Zhixian Wang , Ping Liu

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown unprecedented generative capability, but their ability to produce undesirable concepts (e.g.~pornographic content, sensitive identities, copyrighted styles) poses serious concerns for privacy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Finn Carter

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

Machine unlearning aims to remove specific outputs from trained models, often at the concept level, such as forgetting all occurrences of a particular celebrity or filtering content via text prompts. However, many undesired outputs, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Kyungryeol Lee , Kyeonghyun Lee , Seongmin Hong , Byung Hyun Lee , Se Young Chun

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

Text-to-Image diffusion models can produce undesirable content that necessitates concept erasure. However, existing methods struggle with under-erasure, leaving residual traces of targeted concepts, or over-erasure, mistakenly eliminating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Yuyang Xue , Edward Moroshko , Feng Chen , Jingyu Sun , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Pruning-based unlearning has recently emerged as a fast, training-free, and data-independent approach to remove undesired concepts from diffusion models. It promises high efficiency and robustness, offering an attractive alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Ci Zhang , Zhaojun Ding , Chence Yang , Jun Liu , Xiaoming Zhai , Shaoyi Huang , Beiwen Li , Xiaolong Ma , Jin Lu , Geng Yuan

We introduce a novel, closed-form approach for selective unlearning in multimodal models, specifically targeting pretrained models such as CLIP. Our method leverages nullspace projection to erase the target class information embedded in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Ashish Mishra , Tarun Kumar , Gyanaranjan Nayak , Arpit Shah , Suparna Bhattacharya , Martin Foltin

Text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated the underlying risk of generating various unwanted content, such as sexual elements. To address this issue, the task of concept erasure has been introduced, aiming to erase any undesired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Zheling Meng , Bo Peng , Xiaochuan Jin , Yueming Lyu , Wei Wang , Jing Dong , Tieniu Tan

Concept erasure has emerged as a promising technique for mitigating the risk of harmful content generation in diffusion models by selectively unlearning undesirable concepts. The common principle of previous works to remove a specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Trang Vu , Long Vuong , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Junae Kim , Dinh Phung
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