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Editing Massive Concepts in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

arXiv 2403.13807 ↗First posted 20 Mar 2024cs.CV cs.AI cs.LGcited by 15

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-image diffusion models suffer from the risk of generating outdated, copyrighted, incorrect, and biased content. While previous methods have mitigated the issues on a small scale, it is essential to handle them simultaneously in larger-scale real-world scenarios. We propose a two-stage method, Editing Massive Concepts In Diffusion Models (EMCID). The first stage performs memory optimization for each individual concept with dual self-distillation from text alignment loss and diffusion noise prediction loss. The second stage conducts massive concept editing with multi-layer, closed form model editing. We further propose a comprehensive benchmark, named ImageNet Concept Editing Benchmark (ICEB), for evaluating massive concept editing for T2I models with two subtasks, free-form prompts, massive concept categories, and extensive evaluation metrics. Extensive experiments conducted on our proposed benchmark and previous benchmarks demonstrate the superior scalability of EMCID for editing up to 1,000 concepts, providing a practical approach for fast adjustment and re-deployment of T2I diffusion models in real-world applications.

Key facts. Cited by 15 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 27 of its 35 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Mar 2024.

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  1. 2023Editing Implicit Assumptions in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models14 Mar
  2. 2023T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models16 Feb
  3. 2023Glaze: Protecting Artists from Style Mimicry by Text-to-Image Models8 Feb
  4. 2022Diffusion Art or Digital Forgery? Investigating Data Replication in Diffusion Models7 Dec
  5. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  6. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  7. 2022DALL-Eval: Probing the Reasoning Skills and Social Biases of Text-to-Image Generation Models8 Feb

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  2. 2020An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scalecited by 30,186
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  4. 2014Microsoft COCO: Common Objects in Contextcited by 17,608
  5. 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,177
  6. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,255
  7. 2022BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generationcited by 4,322
  8. 2022Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPTcited by 2,691
  9. 2021Cascaded Diffusion Models for High Fidelity Image Generationcited by 1,163
  10. 2022Mass-Editing Memory in a Transformercited by 1,001
  11. 2018Gender Bias in Coreference Resolution: Evaluation and Debiasing Methodscited by 659
  12. 2023Erasing Concepts from Diffusion Modelscited by 539
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  1. 2022Safe Latent Diffusion: Mitigating Inappropriate Degeneration in Diffusion Modelscited by 513
  2. 2023Unified Concept Editing in Diffusion Modelscited by 388
  3. 2023Ablating Concepts in Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 317
  4. 2023Forget-Me-Not: Learning to Forget in Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 301
  5. 2023Stable Bias: Analyzing Societal Representations in Diffusion Modelscited by 226
  6. 2023Selective Amnesia: A Continual Learning Approach to Forgetting in Deep Generative Modelscited by 177
  7. 2023Towards Safe Self-Distillation of Internet-Scale Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 41
  8. 2023ReFACT: Updating Text-to-Image Models by Editing the Text Encodercited by 32

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  1. 2025ACE: Concept Editing in Diffusion Models without Performance Degradation
  2. 2025SPEED: Scalable, Precise, and Efficient Concept Erasure for Diffusion Models
  3. 2023PRedItOR: Text Guided Image Editing with Diffusion Prior
  4. 2025Concept Lancet: Image Editing with Compositional Representation Transplant
  5. 2026Erasing Thousands of Concepts: Towards Scalable and Practical Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
  6. 2024Scaling Concept With Text-Guided Diffusion Models
  7. 2023Textual and Visual Prompt Fusion for Image Editing via Step-Wise Alignment
  8. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance