arXiv AI

Erase but Preserve: Controllable Removal of Copyrighted Animation Characters via Optimized Semantic Anchors

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 Computer Vision
2d ago

Continual Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models by Suppressing Cross-Edit Interference

The paper introduces CEASE, a training‑free method for continual concept erasure in text‑to‑image diffusion models. CEASE imposes two subspace constraints on a closed‑form solver to prevent interference across successive erasures, ensuring that new targets can be removed without undoing previously erased concepts. Experiments on erasing celebrities, artistic styles, and specific instances show that CEASE consistently balances erasure and preservation better than existing methods, which either degrade general generation or fail to fully erase targets.

By Yongliang Wu, Haori Lu, Jinqi Luo, Wei Cao, Xingyu Zhu, Yaoyao Liu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 6

Erasing Without Collateral Damage: Precise Concept Removal in Diffusion Models

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 Computer Vision
2d ago

STAGE: Subspace-Targeted Affine Generative Erasure for Text-to-3D Models

STAGE is a training‑free, closed‑form framework for concept erasure in native text‑to‑3D generators. It treats erasure as a stage‑aware editing problem, applying low‑dimensional affine corrections separately to the structural and appearance stages of the pipeline. Experiments on the TRELLIS generator show that STAGE outperforms adapted baselines, achieving a composite score of 66.7 versus 53.2 across 15 shape, material, and object concepts.

By Karol Dziekan, Przemys{\l}aw Spurek, Dawid Malarz
arXiv AI
Sep 18

CleanVideo: Adaptive Concept Erasure for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models

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 AI
Jul 8

TILDE: TILt-based Distributional Erasure for Concept Unlearning

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