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Dynamic Eraser for Guided Concept Erasure in Diffusion Models

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Concept erasure in Text-To-Image (T2I) diffusion models is vital for safe content generation, but existing inference-time methods face significant limitations. Feature-correction approaches often cause uncontrolled over-correction, while token-level interventions struggle with semantic granularity and context. Moreover, both types of methods are prone to severe semantic drift or even complete representation collapse. To address these challenges, we present Dynamic Semantic Steering (DSS), a lightweight, training-free framework for interpretable and controllable concept erasure. DSS introduces: 1) Sensitive Semantic Boundary Modeling (SSBM) to automate the discovery of safe semantic anchors, and 2) Sensitive Semantic Guidance (SSG), which leverages cross-attention features for precise detection and performs correction via a closed-form solution derived from a well-posed objective. This ensures optimal suppression of sensitive content while preserving benign semantics. DSS achieves an average erasure rate of 91.0\%, significantly outperforming SOTA methods (from 18.6\% to 85.9\%) with minimal impact on output fidelity.

Qinghui Gong• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Concept ErasureNSFW Concepts
Sexually Concept Accuracy0.6
14
Concept ErasureObject Concepts
Car Accuracy5
12
Concept ErasurePainting Style Concepts
Erasure Success (Van Gogh)0.00e+0
12
Generative Quality EvaluationGenerative Quality Evaluation Prompts
CLIP Score27.09
11
Concept ErasureAdversarial Prompts (Ring-A-Bell)
Success Rate (Sexually)2.5
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Multi-concept Joint ErasureMulti-sensitive concepts Cyberpunk + Nude
Concept Ratio5.5
2
Multi-concept Joint ErasureMulti-sensitive concepts Political Elements + Nude
Concept Ratio6
2
Multi-concept Joint ErasureMulti-sensitive concepts Nude + Cat
Concept Ratio4
2
Multi-concept Joint ErasureMulti-sensitive concepts Nude + Gun
Concept Ratio5
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