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
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
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
The paper introduces SAEParate, a sparse autoencoder approach that explicitly separates overlapping concepts in the latent space of text-to-image diffusion models. It employs concept-aware contrastive learning and cross-attention-guided spatial aggregation to focus on concept-relevant regions, while a nonlinear encoder transformation enhances expressive capacity. Experiments on UnlearnCanvas show state‑of‑the‑art performance, especially in challenging joint style‑object unlearning scenarios where prior methods struggle with interference between concepts.
By Hyeonjin Kim, Hangyeol Jung, Heechan Yun, Sungjun Yun, Dong-Jun Han
arXiv:2609.36832v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models can generate realistic depictions of actions such as kicking, stabbing, and shooting, raising safety concerns that...
By Ping Liu, Chi Zhang