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Rethinking Memorization Mitigation in Diffusion Models: Reinforcing Text Conditioning

arXiv 2610.01723 ↗First posted 1 Oct 2026cs.CVcited by 0

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in image synthesis, yet can exhibit memorization by closely reproducing individual training examples. Effective mitigation must preserve useful prompt information to guide alternative depictions. We introduce a training-free method that redistributes cross-attention with Gaussian smoothing before reinforcing content-token contributions and attenuating padding contributions, without additional denoiser evaluations. With this intervention, stronger content conditioning can improve prompt alignment at comparable training-image similarity. A local analysis identifies when reinforcement preserves shared value information while redistribution reduces localized attention mass. On Stable Diffusion v1.4 and v2.0, all evaluated smoothing widths lie on the empirical Pareto frontiers for training-image similarity versus both prompt alignment and image preference. A configuration selected on Stable Diffusion reduces template reproduction in DeepFloyd IF without further tuning. These findings support jointly controlling conditioning allocation and strength to generate prompt-consistent alternatives.

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