arXiv:2609.37537v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Machine unlearning has emerged as a critical post-hoc safety measure to erase sensitive concepts from Text-to-Image (T2I) models without prohibitive re...
By Arian Komaei Koma, Seyed Amir Kasaei, Aida Aryafar, Matin Ghiasi, Ali Aghayari, Amirhossein Souri, Mohammad Mosayyebi, AmirMahdi Sadeghzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Rohban
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.
Training-free concept erasure is an attractive mechanism for controlling text-to-image diffusion models, but precise erasure often comes at the cost of damaging semantically related non-target concepts. Existing value-space methods remove the component of each cross-attention value along the target concept direction, implicitly treating target identity and shared visual structure as the same signal.
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
CleanVideo introduces a selective erasure framework for text-to-video diffusion models, addressing the challenge of removing undesired visual concepts from videos. The method uses a low-dimensional subspace intervention guided by a tri-modal gating mechanism that jointly considers spatiotemporal visual features, timestep signals, and textual semantics to decide where, when, and whether to intervene. Experiments on three video diffusion models demonstrate that CleanVideo effectively erases target concepts while preserving visual fidelity, temporal coherence, and outperforming existing baselines in both frame-level and video-level evaluations, even under concept-recovery attacks.
By Junchi Liao, Hongji Li, Wenrui Zhou, Lijie Hu
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. 06432v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models is critical for safe and practical deployment: with rising privacy concerns, copyright disputes, trademark constraints, and safety regulations, deployed systems must be able to suppress unwanted concepts after training.
By Naveen George, Naoki Murata, Yuhta Takida, Konda Reddy Mopuri, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv:2610.01969v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Concept erasure aims to remove a target concept, such as a copyrighted style, a recognizable character, or unsafe content, from a pretrained text-to-im...
By Yongliang Wu, Haori Lu, Yulun Wu, Jinqi Luo, Xingyu Zhu, Yaoyao Liu
arXiv:2607. 23492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept erasure techniques (CETs) edit text-to-image diffusion models to erase undesired targets such as NSFW content or copyrighted styles, while preserving model utility on benign concepts.
By Shaswati Saha, Rajasekhar Anguluri, Manas Gaur
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
arXiv:2607. 26735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt inversion, as a typical reverse engineering technique, enables text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to generate the desired target images without extensive prompt engineering.
By Xiaolong Liu, Junjian Li, Yuan Xiao, Jiaqi Deng, Dayong Ye, Tianqing Zhu, Huan Huo
arXiv:2609.09909v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Although text-to-image diffusion models generally exhibit strong prompt-following ability, we identify a persistent and previously underexplored failur...
By Yifan Yuan, Xiangyu Liu, Hongming Shan, Yu Han, Yu Jiang, Hao Tan, Junping Zhang, Linlin Shen