Co-occurring Associated REtained concepts in Diffusion Unlearning
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arXiv:2606.24192v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlearning has emerged as a key technique to mitigate harmful content generation in diffusion models. However, existing methods often remove not only the target concept, but also benign co-occurring concepts. As illustrated in Fig.1, unlearning nudity can unintentionally suppress the concept of person, preventing a model from generating images with person. We define these undesirably suppressed co-occurring concepts that must be preserved CARE (Co-occurring Associated REtained concepts). Then, we introduce the CARE score, a general metr
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.24192v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unlearning has emerged as a key technique to mitigate harmful content generation in diffusion models.
- However, existing methods often remove not only the target concept, but also benign co-occurring concepts.
- As illustrated in Fig.1, unlearning nudity can unintentionally suppress the concept of person, preventing a model from generating images with person.
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