Models can isolate restricted image concepts during pretraining

A three-branch attention architecture suppresses designated concepts by disconnecting one branch while preserving useful knowledge learned from restricted images.

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Anirudh Sundara Rajan · Krishna Kumar Singh · Richard Zhang · Yong Jae Lee

University of Wisconsin–Madison · Adobe Research

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Rajan and colleagues redesign text-to-image pretraining so that knowledge associated with designated unsafe concepts is directed into a removable component rather than erased afterward.

The authors introduce Pristine Attention, which divides attention layers into three independently parameterized branches: safe, unsafe and shared.

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From Adobe Research and University of Wisconsin–Madison

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Unsafe concept knowledge in text-to-image models can be isolated during pretraining into a detachable branch, preserving safe-data quality while suppressing restricted generation.

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