Inner pipeline safety checks match outer guardrails with fewer false positives

InGuard embeds risk scoring, embedding repair and a mid-denoising latent detector inside text-to-image models, cutting benign disturbance and skipped denoising steps across five open-weight models.

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Zeyu Wang · Xiaodan Li · Zhiwen Li · Yuefeng Chen · Hui Xue

Alibaba AAIG

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The authors designed a three-component inner guardrail for text-to-image (T2I) generation.

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Safety checks inside the T2I pipeline, using the model's own embeddings and latent states, can match or exceed outer guardrails with less disruption and cost.

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