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ARXIV:2603.16576 · IMAGE GENERATION SECURITY · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 18:48 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.16576IMAGE GENERATION SECURITYSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 18:48 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks.
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Pain REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks.
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REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks. Image Generation Model Unlearning (IGMU) mitigates these risks by removing harmful concepts without full retraining.
Recent progress in image generation models (IGMs) enables high-fidelity content creation but also amplifies risks, including the reproduction of copyrighted content and the generation of offensive content. Image Generation Model Unlearning (IGMU) mitigates these…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Recent progress in image generation models (IGMs) enables high-fidelity content creation but also amplifies risks, including the reproduction of copyrighted content and the generation…
Image Generation Security moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.16576REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks.
Abstract
Recent progress in image generation models (IGMs) enables high-fidelity content creation but also amplifies risks, including the reproduction of copyrighted content and the generation of offensive content. Image Generation Model Unlearning (IGMU) mitigates these risks by removing harmful concepts without full retraining. Despite growing attention, the robustness under adversarial inputs, particularly image-side threats in black-box settings, remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we present REFORGE, a black-box red-teaming framework that evaluates IGMU robustness via adversarial image prompts. REFORGE initializes stroke-based images and optimizes perturbations with a cross-attention-guided masking strategy that allocates noise to concept-relevant regions, balancing attack efficacy and visual fidelity. Extensive experiments across representative unlearning tasks and defenses demonstrate that REFORGE significantly improves attack success rate while achieving stronger semantic alignment and higher efficiency than involved baselines. These results expose persistent vulnerabilities in current IGMU methods and highlight the need for robustness-aware unlearning against multi-modal adversarial attacks. Our code is at: https://github.com/Imfatnoily/REFORGE.
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REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks. Image Generation Model Unlearning (IGMU) mitigates these risks by removing harmful concepts without full retraining.
METHOD
Recent progress in image generation models (IGMs) enables high-fidelity content creation but also amplifies risks, including the reproduction of copyrighted content and the generation of offensive content. Image Generation Model Unlearning (IGMU) mitigates these risks by removin...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Recent progress in image generation models (IGMs) enables high-fidelity content creation but also amplifies risks, including the reproduction of copyrighted content and the generation of offensive content...
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Image Generation Security moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
REFORGE significantly improves attack success rate while achieving stronger semantic alignment and higher efficiency than involved baselines.
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REFORGE optimizes perturbations with a cross-attention-guided masking strategy that allocates noise to concept-relevant regions.
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These results expose persistent vulnerabilities in current IGMU methods and highlight the need for robustness-aware unlearning against multi-modal adversarial attacks.
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REFORGE significantly improves attack success rate while achieving stronger semantic alignment and higher efficiency than involved baselines.
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Despite growing attention, the robustness under adversarial inputs, particularly image-side threats in black-box settings, remains underexplored.
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We present REFORGE, a black-box red-teaming framework that evaluates IGMU robustness via adversarial image prompts.
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Image Generation Model Unlearning (IGMU) mitigates these risks by removing harmful concepts without full retraining.
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REFORGE initializes stroke-based images and optimizes perturbations with a cross-attention-guided masking strategy.
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REFORGE is a black-box red-teaming framework that enhances the robustness of image generation model unlearning against adversarial attacks.
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