CRCE: Coreference-Retention Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Text-to-Image diffusion models can produce undesirable content that necessitates concept erasure techniques. However, existing methods struggle with under-erasure, leaving residual traces of targeted concepts, or over-erasure, mistakenly eliminating unrelated but visually similar concepts. To address these limitations, we introduce CRCE, a novel concept erasure framework that leverages Large Language Models to identify both semantically related concepts that should be erased alongside the target and distinct concepts that should be preserved. By explicitly modeling coreferential and retained concepts semantically, CRCE enables more precise concept removal, without unintended erasure. Experiments demonstrate that CRCE outperforms existing methods on diverse erasure tasks.

@article{xue2025_2503.14232,
  title={ CRCE: Coreference-Retention Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models },
  author={ Yuyang Xue and Edward Moroshko and Feng Chen and Steven McDonagh and Sotirios A. Tsaftaris },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.14232},
  year={ 2025 }
}