eval-unlearn: Benchmarking unlearning in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
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The rising number of concept unlearning techniques for text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has produced a fragmented evaluation landscape. Methods are assessed under heterogeneous experimental conditions making principled cross-method comparison difficult. We present eval-unlearn, an open-source Python library providing a unified, reproducible benchmarking framework for concept unlearning in T2I Diffusion models. eval-unlearn integrates twelve published unlearning techniques spanning fine-tuning, closed-form model editing, and inference-time intervention, alongside nine complementary evaluation metrics covering erasure efficacy, adversarial robustness, generative quality, and concept retention. Its plugin architecture lets third-party techniques and metrics self-register without modifying the core framework, and its streaming, batched pipeline supports efficient evaluation of both standard NSFW concepts and arbitrary general concepts. As a further contribution, we release a public leaderboard on HuggingFace along with an interactive tool for real-time evaluation of unlearning techniques. The leaderboard compares nudity concept erasure case study across all twelve techniques, exposing significant accuracy-quality trade-offs that are obscured by heterogeneous evaluation. eval-unlearn is released under the MIT license; the package, code, leaderboard, and documentation are all available at https://eval-unlearn.readthedocs.io.
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