Prototype-Guided Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models

ArXi:2603.08271v1 Announce Type: new Concept erasure is extensively utilized in image generation to prevent text-to-image models from generating undesired content. Existing methods can effectively erase narrow concepts that are specific and concrete, such as distinct intellectual properties (e.g. Pikachu) or recognizable characters (e.g. Elon Musk). However, their performance degrades on broad concepts such as ``sexual'' or ``violent'', whose wide scope and multi-faceted nature make them difficult to erase reliably.