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Precise spatial control in diffusion-based style transfer remains challenging. This challenge arises because diffusion models treat style as a global feature and lack explicit spatial grounding of style representations, making it difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Bowen Chen , Jake Zuena , Alan C. Bovik , Divya Kothandaraman

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved unprecedented proficiency in generating realistic images. However, their inherent tendency to memorize and replicate training data during inference raises significant concerns, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Chen Chen , Daochang Liu , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

Recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion models have demonstrated their remarkable capability to generate high-quality images from textual prompts. However, increasing research indicates that these models memorize and replicate images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jie Ren , Yaxin Li , Shenglai Zeng , Han Xu , Lingjuan Lyu , Yue Xing , Jiliang Tang

Memorization in large-scale text-to-image diffusion models poses significant security and intellectual property risks, enabling adversarial attribute extraction and the unauthorized reproduction of sensitive or proprietary features. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Divya Kothandaraman , Jaclyn Pytlarz

Deep Neural Nets (DNNs) have become a pervasive tool for solving many emerging problems. However, they tend to overfit to and memorize the training set. Memorization is of keen interest since it is closely related to several concepts such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Deepak Ravikumar , Efstathia Soufleri , Abolfazl Hashemi , Kaushik Roy

Due to their capacity to generate novel and high-quality samples, diffusion models have attracted significant research interest in recent years. Notably, the typical training objective of diffusion models, i.e., denoising score matching,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Xiangming Gu , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Chongxuan Li , Min Lin , Ye Wang

Diffusion models, widely used for image and video generation, face a significant limitation: the risk of memorizing and reproducing training data during inference, potentially generating unauthorized copyrighted content. While prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Chen Chen , Enhuai Liu , Daochang Liu , Mubarak Shah , Chang Xu

This position paper argues that understanding generalization in diffusion models requires fundamentally new theoretical frameworks that go beyond both classical statistical learning theory and the benign overfitting paradigm developed for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Pierre Marion , Yu-Han Wu

Diffusion models excel in generating images that closely resemble their training data but are also susceptible to data memorization, raising privacy, ethical, and legal concerns, particularly in sensitive domains such as medical imaging. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Raman Dutt , Ondrej Bohdal , Pedro Sanchez , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris , Timothy Hospedales

Generative models are increasingly used in 3D vision to synthesize novel shapes, yet it remains unclear whether their generation relies on memorizing training shapes. Understanding their memorization could help prevent training data leakage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shu Pu , Boya Zeng , Kaichen Zhou , Mengyu Wang , Zhuang Liu

Diffusion-based image generative models produce high-fidelity images through iterative denoising but remain vulnerable to memorization, where they unintentionally reproduce exact copies or parts of training images. Recent memorization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Rohan Asthana , Vasileios Belagiannis

Tabular data generation has attracted significant research interest in recent years, with the tabular diffusion models greatly improving the quality of synthetic data. However, while memorization, where models inadvertently replicate exact…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zhengyu Fang , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiao Li , Jing Li

There is strong empirical evidence that the state-of-the-art diffusion modeling paradigm leads to models that memorize the training set, especially when the training set is small. Prior methods to mitigate the memorization problem often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Kulin Shah , Alkis Kalavasis , Adam R. Klivans , Giannis Daras

Diffusion models have shown strong performance in generating high-quality tabular data, but they carry privacy risks by reproducing exact training samples. While prior work focuses on dataset-level augmentation to reduce memorization,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zhengyu Fang , Zhimeng Jiang , Huiyuan Chen , Xiaoge Zhang , Kaiyu Tang , Xiao Li , Jing Li

Recent advances in deep generative models have led to impressive results in a variety of application domains. Motivated by the possibility that deep learning models might memorize part of the input data, there have been increased efforts to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Gerrit J. J. van den Burg , Christopher K. I. Williams

In this work, we investigate an intriguing and prevalent phenomenon of diffusion models which we term as "consistent model reproducibility": given the same starting noise input and a deterministic sampler, different diffusion models often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Huijie Zhang , Jinfan Zhou , Yifu Lu , Minzhe Guo , Peng Wang , Liyue Shen , Qing Qu

Generative foundation models like Stable Diffusion comprise a diverse spectrum of knowledge in computer vision with the potential for transfer learning, e.g., via generating data to train student models for downstream tasks. This could…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Leonhard Hennicke , Christian Medeiros Adriano , Holger Giese , Jan Mathias Koehler , Lukas Schott

We theoretically investigate the phenomena of generalization and memorization in diffusion models. Empirical studies suggest that these phenomena are influenced by model complexity and the size of the training dataset. In our experiments,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Anand Jerry George , Rodrigo Veiga , Nicolas Macris

Diffusion models have become a leading framework in generative modeling, yet their theoretical understanding -- especially for high-dimensional data concentrated on low-dimensional structures -- remains incomplete. This paper investigates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Zixuan Zhang , Kaixuan Huang , Tuo Zhao , Mengdi Wang , Minshuo Chen

Diffusion models, known for their tremendous ability to generate high-quality samples, have recently raised concerns due to their data memorization behavior, which poses privacy risks. Recent methods for memory mitigation have primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Xiaoliu Guan , Yu Wu , Huayang Huang , Xiao Liu , Jiaxu Miao , Yi Yang