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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

Diffusion models excel at generating visually striking content from text but can inadvertently produce undesirable or harmful content when trained on unfiltered internet data. A practical solution is to selectively removing target concepts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Anh Bui , Long Vuong , Khanh Doan , Trung Le , Paul Montague , Tamas Abraham , Dinh Phung

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Byung Hyun Lee , Sungjin Lim , Se Young Chun

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating high-quality, diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, their ability to reproduce copyrighted styles, sensitive imagery, and harmful content raises…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Changhoon Kim , Yanjun Qi

Concept erasure in Text-To-Image (T2I) diffusion models is vital for safe content generation, but existing inference-time methods face significant limitations. Feature-correction approaches often cause uncontrolled over-correction, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Qinghui Gong

Concept erasure serves as a vital safety mechanism for removing unwanted concepts from text-to-image (T2I) models. While extensively studied in U-Net and dual-stream architectures (e.g., Flux), this task remains under-explored in the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nanxiang Jiang , Zhaoxin Fan , Baisen Wang , Daiheng Gao , Junhang Cheng , Jifeng Guo , Yalan Qin , Yeying Jin , Hongwei Zheng , Faguo Wu , Wenjun Wu

In the evolving landscape of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models, the remarkable capability to generate high-quality images from textual descriptions faces challenges with the potential misuse of reproducing sensitive content. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Changhoon Kim , Kyle Min , Yezhou Yang

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

The proliferation of text-to-image diffusion models has raised significant privacy and security concerns, particularly regarding the generation of copyrighted or harmful images. In response, concept erasure (defense) methods have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Alex D. Richardson , Kaicheng Zhang , Lucas Beerens , Dongdong Chen

Concept erasure in text-to-image diffusion models aims to disable pre-trained diffusion models from generating images related to a target concept. To perform reliable concept erasure, the properties of robustness and locality are desirable.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Chi-Pin Huang , Kai-Po Chang , Chung-Ting Tsai , Yung-Hsuan Lai , Fu-En Yang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

Concept erasure helps stop diffusion models (DMs) from generating harmful content; but current methods face robustness retention trade off. Robustness means the model fine-tuned by concept erasure methods resists reactivation of erased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Fengpeng Li , Kemou Li , Qizhou Wang , Bo Han , Jiantao Zhou

Text-to-image generative models have achieved impressive fidelity and diversity, but can inadvertently produce unsafe or undesirable content due to implicit biases embedded in large-scale training datasets. Existing concept erasure methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Jun Li , Lizhi Xiong , Ziqiang Li , Weiwei Jiang , Zhangjie Fu , Yong Li , Guo-Sen Xie

Post-hoc unlearning has emerged as a practical mechanism for removing undesirable concepts from large text-to-image diffusion models. However, prior work primarily evaluates unlearning through erasure success; its impact on broader…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Arian Komaei Koma , Seyed Amir Kasaei , Ali Aghayari , AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh , Mohammad Hossein Rohban

Motivated by recent advancements in text-to-image diffusion, we study erasure of specific concepts from the model's weights. While Stable Diffusion has shown promise in producing explicit or realistic artwork, it has raised concerns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rohit Gandikota , Joanna Materzynska , Jaden Fiotto-Kaufman , David Bau

Diffusion models have transformed image generation, yet controlling their outputs to reliably erase undesired concepts remains challenging. Existing approaches usually require task-specific training and struggle to generalize across both…

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in generating high-quality and diverse visual content from natural language prompts. However, uncontrolled reproduction of sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful imagery poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Yiwei Xie , Ping Liu , Zheng Zhang

Language representations are known to carry stereotypical biases and, as a result, lead to biased predictions in downstream tasks. While existing methods are effective at mitigating biases by linear projection, such methods are too…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sunipa Dev , Tao Li , Jeff M Phillips , Vivek Srikumar

Explicit Caption Editing (ECE) -- refining reference image captions through a sequence of explicit edit operations (e.g., KEEP, DETELE) -- has raised significant attention due to its explainable and human-like nature. After training with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Zhen Wang , Xinyun Jiang , Jun Xiao , Tao Chen , Long Chen

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

Diffusion-based video editing have reached impressive quality and can transform either the global style, local structure, and attributes of given video inputs, following textual edit prompts. However, such solutions typically incur heavy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Kumara Kahatapitiya , Adil Karjauv , Davide Abati , Fatih Porikli , Yuki M. Asano , Amirhossein Habibian