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Main Authors: Ko, Myeongseob, Li, Henry, Wang, Zhun, Patsenker, Jonathan, Wang, Jiachen T., Li, Qinbin, Jin, Ming, Song, Dawn, Jia, Ruoxi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07808
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author Ko, Myeongseob
Li, Henry
Wang, Zhun
Patsenker, Jonathan
Wang, Jiachen T.
Li, Qinbin
Jin, Ming
Song, Dawn
Jia, Ruoxi
author_facet Ko, Myeongseob
Li, Henry
Wang, Zhun
Patsenker, Jonathan
Wang, Jiachen T.
Li, Qinbin
Jin, Ming
Song, Dawn
Jia, Ruoxi
contents Large-scale generative models have shown impressive image-generation capabilities, propelled by massive data. However, this often inadvertently leads to the generation of harmful or inappropriate content and raises copyright concerns. Driven by these concerns, machine unlearning has become crucial to effectively purge undesirable knowledge from models. While existing literature has studied various unlearning techniques, these often suffer from either poor unlearning quality or degradation in text-image alignment after unlearning, due to the competitive nature of these objectives. To address these challenges, we propose a framework that seeks an optimal model update at each unlearning iteration, ensuring monotonic improvement on both objectives. We further derive the characterization of such an update. In addition, we design procedures to strategically diversify the unlearning and remaining datasets to boost performance improvement. Our evaluation demonstrates that our method effectively removes target classes from recent diffusion-based generative models and concepts from stable diffusion models while maintaining close alignment with the models' original trained states, thus outperforming state-of-the-art baselines. Our code will be made available at https://github.com/reds-lab/Restricted_gradient_diversity_unlearning.git.
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spellingShingle Boosting Alignment for Post-Unlearning Text-to-Image Generative Models
Ko, Myeongseob
Li, Henry
Wang, Zhun
Patsenker, Jonathan
Wang, Jiachen T.
Li, Qinbin
Jin, Ming
Song, Dawn
Jia, Ruoxi
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Large-scale generative models have shown impressive image-generation capabilities, propelled by massive data. However, this often inadvertently leads to the generation of harmful or inappropriate content and raises copyright concerns. Driven by these concerns, machine unlearning has become crucial to effectively purge undesirable knowledge from models. While existing literature has studied various unlearning techniques, these often suffer from either poor unlearning quality or degradation in text-image alignment after unlearning, due to the competitive nature of these objectives. To address these challenges, we propose a framework that seeks an optimal model update at each unlearning iteration, ensuring monotonic improvement on both objectives. We further derive the characterization of such an update. In addition, we design procedures to strategically diversify the unlearning and remaining datasets to boost performance improvement. Our evaluation demonstrates that our method effectively removes target classes from recent diffusion-based generative models and concepts from stable diffusion models while maintaining close alignment with the models' original trained states, thus outperforming state-of-the-art baselines. Our code will be made available at https://github.com/reds-lab/Restricted_gradient_diversity_unlearning.git.
title Boosting Alignment for Post-Unlearning Text-to-Image Generative Models
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.07808