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.
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.
arXiv:2512. 02657v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world deployment of text-to-image diffusion models requires continual concept removal as new privacy, copyright, or safety obligations arise over time.
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.
Although text-to-image diffusion models exhibit remarkable generative power, concept erasure techniques are essential for preventing harmful content. Existing adversarial probes evaluate these methods by testing whether erased concepts can still be recovered.
arXiv:2606. 24192v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unlearning has emerged as a key technique to mitigate harmful content generation in diffusion models.
Concept erasure aims to remove a target concept from a representation while preserving the other information encoded in it. This is difficult because representations encode many concepts that are often correlated with the erasure target, so removing the target risks damaging them.
arXiv:2606. 15819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The rapid progress of visual autoregressive (VAR) models has unlocked a transformative frontier for high-fidelity text-to-image synthesis, while heightening concerns over the safety alignment of generated content.
arXiv:2607. 03973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Concept erasure aims to remove a target concept from a representation while preserving the other information encoded in it.
arXiv:2608. 12806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The exceptional generation capabilities of text-to-image diffusion models have raised copyright concerns, particularly the unauthorized reproduction of animation characters.
arXiv:2504. 21072v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The expansion of text-to-image diffusion models has raised concerns about harmful outputs, from fabricated depictions of public figures to sexually explicit imagery.
arXiv:2607. 08337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion unlearning is essential for mitigating the generation of harmful or copyrighted content in text-to-image models.
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.