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Safe Latent Diffusion: Mitigating Inappropriate Degeneration in Diffusion Models

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Schramowski, Patrick, Brack, Manuel, Deiseroth, Björn, Kersting, Kristian·2023·2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications. Since they are highly data-driven, relying on billion-sized datasets randomly scraped from the internet, they also suffer, as we demonstrate, from degenerated and biased human behavior. In turn, they may even reinforce such biases. To help combat these undesired side effects, we present safe latent diffusion (SLD). Specifically, to measure the inappropriate degeneration due to unfiltered and imbalanced training sets, we establish a novel image generation test bed-inappropriate image prompts (I2P)-containing dedicated, real-world image-to-text prompts covering concepts such as nudity and violence. As our exhaustive empirical evaluation demonstrates, the introduced SLD removes and suppresses inappropriate image parts during the diffusion process, with no additional training required and no adverse effect on overall image quality or text alignment.11Code available at https://huggingface.co/docs/diffusers/api/pipelines/stable.diffusion.safe

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Authors
Schramowski, P., Brack, M., Deiseroth, B., & Kersting, K.
Affiliations
Technische Universität Darmstadt (DE)
Venue
2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2023-06
Pages
22522-22531
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4386066536
Cited by
219
References
44
Citations by year
2026: 68 · 2025: 86 · 2024: 55 · 2023: 10
FWCI
23.31
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
Keywords
latent diffusion models, text-to-image generation, training data bias, nudity, violence, text alignment

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