arXiv:2606. 31699v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently been proposed as interpretable tools for concept-level manipulation, under the assumption that isolated features can serve as controllable intervention points.
By Enrico Cassano, Riccardo Renzulli, Rayyan Ahmed, Marco Grangetto, Stephan Alaniz
Concept Acupuncturist (ConceptACP) is a machine‑unlearning framework that removes targeted concepts from diffusion models efficiently and precisely. It identifies the most relevant cross‑attention block in the U‑Net denoiser, fine‑tunes only that block, and uses Sparse Autoencoders to generate semantically meaningful correction signals for concept erasure. Applied to SDXL‑Turbo, ConceptACP boosts forgetting success by over 36 percentage points while maintaining image quality and prompt fidelity, and works across other Stable Diffusion backbones.
By Yiran Xiahou, Siliang Qin, Kai Chen, Shengzhi Zhang, Renyang Liu
EraseSAE is a framework for surgical concept erasure in text-to-video diffusion models. It uses a Partitioned Convolutional Sparse Autoencoder to decompose activations into interpretable sparse features, a contrastive attribution mechanism to isolate concept-specific kernels, and timestep‑resolved masks to confine erasure to active regions. Experiments show precise removal with minimal quality loss, outperforming existing methods.
By Xinghao Wang, Dong Li, Wei Yu, Yingwei Pan, Tao Gong, Qi Chu, Nenghai Yu, Ting Yao
EraseSAE introduces a surgical concept erasure method for text-to-video diffusion models, using sparse autoencoders to decompose activations into interpretable, monosemantic features. The framework employs a contrastive attribution mechanism to isolate concept-specific kernels and applies timestep-resolved masks during inference to remove target concepts while preserving unrelated content. Experiments show that EraseSAE achieves precise, robust concept removal with minimal quality loss, outperforming existing methods.
arXiv:2605.25765v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Existing closed-form methods for concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models typically derive editing directions from fixed text emb...
By Saemi Moon, Suhyeon Jun, Seoyeon Lee, Dongwoo Kim
arXiv:2607. 08605v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as a promising technique for mechanistic interpretability by learning a set of sparse latent features in large models, each of which encodes a distinct concept.
By Weiduo Liao, Yunqiao Yang, Ying Wei
arXiv:2606. 29888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models map images and text into a joint embedding space.
By Chungpa Lee, Jihoon Kwon, Kyle Min, Jy-yong Sohn
arXiv:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.
By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
arXiv:2608. 03135v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models can generate individual concepts well, but they often omit or merge concepts incorrectly with multiple concepts.
By Ning Zhu, An Chen, Mengfei Zhao, Juntao Xu, Jingze Liang, Boyuan Gu, Liang-Jian Deng
arXiv:2610.07389v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Sparse autoencoders are widely used to uncover interpretable features in neural networks, yet reliable recovery remains difficult when features overl...
By Hadi Vafaii, Tejas Rao, David Chanin, Thomas Fel, Jacob L. Yates, Bruno Olshausen, David Klindt, Dileep George, Miguel L\'azaro-Gredilla
arXiv:2512. 20963v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models excel at generating high-quality, diverse samples, yet they risk memorizing training data when overfit to the training objective.
By Zekai Zhang, Xiao Li, Xiang Li, Lianghe Shi, Meng Wu, Molei Tao, Qing Qu
arXiv:2606. 25548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image generative models are trained on massive, largely uncurated internet-scale datasets that contain undesirable visual concepts.
By Aditya Kumar, Pierre Joly, Adam Dziedzic, Franziska Boenisch