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Autori principali: Tong, Lei, Liu, Zhihua, Lu, Chaochao, Oglic, Dino, Diethe, Tom, Teare, Philip, Tsaftaris, Sotirios A., Jin, Chen
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24798
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author Tong, Lei
Liu, Zhihua
Lu, Chaochao
Oglic, Dino
Diethe, Tom
Teare, Philip
Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
Jin, Chen
author_facet Tong, Lei
Liu, Zhihua
Lu, Chaochao
Oglic, Dino
Diethe, Tom
Teare, Philip
Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
Jin, Chen
contents We present Causal-Adapter, a modular framework that adapts frozen text-to-image diffusion backbones for counterfactual image generation. Our method supports causal interventions on target attributes and consistently propagates their effects to causal dependents while preserving the core identity of the image. Unlike prior approaches that rely on prompt engineering without explicit causal structure, Causal-Adapter leverages structural causal modeling with two attribute-regularization strategies: (i) prompt-aligned injection, which aligns causal attributes with textual embeddings for precise semantic control, and (ii) a conditioned token contrastive loss that disentangles attribute factors and reduces spurious correlations. Causal-Adapter achieves state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets, including up to a 91% reduction in MAE on Pendulum for accurate attribute control and up to an 87% reduction in FID on ADNI for high-fidelity MRI generation. These results demonstrate robust, generalizable counterfactual editing with faithful attribute modification and strong identity preservation. Code and models will be released at: https://leitong02.github.io/causaladapter/.
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spellingShingle Causal-Adapter: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Faithful Counterfactual Generation
Tong, Lei
Liu, Zhihua
Lu, Chaochao
Oglic, Dino
Diethe, Tom
Teare, Philip
Tsaftaris, Sotirios A.
Jin, Chen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
We present Causal-Adapter, a modular framework that adapts frozen text-to-image diffusion backbones for counterfactual image generation. Our method supports causal interventions on target attributes and consistently propagates their effects to causal dependents while preserving the core identity of the image. Unlike prior approaches that rely on prompt engineering without explicit causal structure, Causal-Adapter leverages structural causal modeling with two attribute-regularization strategies: (i) prompt-aligned injection, which aligns causal attributes with textual embeddings for precise semantic control, and (ii) a conditioned token contrastive loss that disentangles attribute factors and reduces spurious correlations. Causal-Adapter achieves state-of-the-art performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets, including up to a 91% reduction in MAE on Pendulum for accurate attribute control and up to an 87% reduction in FID on ADNI for high-fidelity MRI generation. These results demonstrate robust, generalizable counterfactual editing with faithful attribute modification and strong identity preservation. Code and models will be released at: https://leitong02.github.io/causaladapter/.
title Causal-Adapter: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Faithful Counterfactual Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24798