cs.CVApr 17, 2026

Beyond Text Prompts: Precise Concept Erasure through Text-Image Collaboration

Authors: Jun LiLizhi XiongZiqiang LiWeiwei JiangZhangjie FuYong LiGuo-Sen Xie

Organizations: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology · Southeast University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology

Abstract

Text-to-image generative models have achieved impressive fidelity and diversity, but can inadvertently produce unsafe or undesirable content due to implicit biases embedded in large-scale training datasets. Existing concept erasure methods, whether text-only or image-assisted, face trade-offs: textual approaches often fail to fully suppress concepts, while naive image-guided methods risk over-erasing unrelated content. We propose TICoE, a text-image Collaborative Erasing framework that achieves precise and faithful concept removal through a continuous convex concept manifold and hierarchical visual representation learning. TICoE precisely removes target concepts while preserving unrelated semantic and visual content. To objectively assess the quality of erasure, we further introduce a fidelity-oriented evaluation strategy that measures post-erasure usability. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that TICoE surpasses prior methods in concept removal precision and content fidelity, enabling safer, more controllable text-to-image generation. Our code is available at https://github.com/OpenAscent-L/TICoE.git

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