Targeted feature edits improve concept removal from image diffusion models

ConceptACP uses sparse autoencoders to guide localized fine-tuning, reporting a 36.34-percentage-point average improvement in forgetting success on SDXL-Turbo.

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Yiran Xiahou · Siliang Qin · Kai Chen · Shengzhi Zhang · Renyang Liu

Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Boston University · NationalUniversity of SingaporeSingapore

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Illustration: Targeted feature edits improve concept removal from image diffusion models
Xiahou and colleagues introduce Concept Acupuncturist, a method for suppressing selected concepts in text-to-image diffusion models by fine-tuning one internal block.

The authors use sparse autoencoders, tools that decompose internal neural-network activations into a small set of active features, to identify features associated with a target concept.

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