Summary of Steerdiff: Steering Towards Safe Text-to-image Diffusion Models, by Hongxiang Zhang et al.
SteerDiff: Steering towards Safe Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
by Hongxiang Zhang, Yifeng He, Hao Chen
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces SteerDiff, a lightweight module designed to prevent the generation of inappropriate content by diffusion models. The authors highlight the limitations of existing safety measures, which can be easily bypassed by rephrasing or scaling up. They propose an innovative approach that identifies and manipulates concepts in the text embedding space to guide the model away from harmful outputs. SteerDiff is evaluated through extensive experiments across various concept unlearning tasks and benchmarked against multiple red-teaming strategies to assess its robustness. The authors also demonstrate the versatility of SteerDiff for concept forgetting tasks, showcasing its potential in text-conditioned image generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine a computer program that can create images from words. This is called a diffusion model. Some people are worried that these programs could be used to make inappropriate or offensive content. The authors of this paper want to fix this problem by creating a special tool, called SteerDiff, that helps the program understand what kind of content is appropriate and avoid making bad images. They tested their tool and showed it works well in many different situations. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Diffusion model » Embedding space » Image generation
