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ARXIV:2604.01826 · GENERATIVE IMAGE SAFETY · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.01826GENERATIVE IMAGE SAFETYSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEXiang Yang · Feifei Li · Mi Zhang · Geng Hong · Xiaoyu You · Min Yang · arXiv
A lightweight framework for mitigating unsafe content in text-to-image models by precisely rotating head-wise embeddings.
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A lightweight framework for mitigating unsafe content in text-to-image models by precisely rotating head-wise embeddings. Existing mitigation methods largely rely on fine-tuning or attention modulation for concept unlearning; however, their expensive computational overhead and…
Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when triggered by multi-token interactions. Existing mitigation methods largely rely on fine-tuning…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when triggered…
Generative Image Safety moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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A lightweight framework for mitigating unsafe content in text-to-image models by precisely rotating head-wise embeddings.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.01826A lightweight framework for mitigating unsafe content in text-to-image models by precisely rotating head-wise embeddings.
Abstract
Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when triggered by multi-token interactions. Existing mitigation methods largely rely on fine-tuning or attention modulation for concept unlearning; however, their expensive computational overhead and design tailored to U-Net-based denoisers hinder direct adaptation to transformer-based diffusion models (e.g., MMDiT). In this paper, we conduct an in-depth analysis of the attention mechanism in MMDiT and find that unsafe semantics concentrate within interpretable, low-dimensional subspaces at head level, where a finite set of safety-critical heads is responsible for unsafe feature extraction. We further observe that perturbing the Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) applied to the query and key vectors can effectively modify some specific concepts in the generated images. Motivated by these insights, we propose SafeRoPE, a lightweight and fine-grained safe generation framework for MMDiT. Specifically, SafeRoPE first constructs head-wise unsafe subspaces by decomposing unsafe embeddings within safety-critical heads, and computes a Latent Risk Score (LRS) for each input vector via projection onto these subspaces. We then introduce head-wise RoPE perturbations that can suppress unsafe semantics without degrading benign content or image quality. SafeRoPE combines both head-wise LRS and RoPE perturbations to perform risk-specific head-wise rotation on query and key vector embeddings, enabling precise suppression of unsafe outputs while maintaining generation fidelity. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SafeRoPE achieves SOTA performance in balancing effective harmful content mitigation and utility preservation for safe generation of MMDiT. Codes are available at https://github.com/deng12yx/SafeRoPE.
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A lightweight framework for mitigating unsafe content in text-to-image models by precisely rotating head-wise embeddings. Existing mitigation methods largely rely on fine-tuning or attention modulation for concept unlearning; however, their expensive computational overhead and d...
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Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when triggered by multi-token interactions. Existing mitigation methods largely rely on fine-tuning or...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when triggered by multi-toke...
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Generative Image Safety moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
unsafe semantics concentrate within interpretable, low-dimensional subspaces at head level
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a finite set of safety-critical heads is responsible for unsafe feature extraction
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perturbing the Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) applied to the query and key vectors can effectively modify some specific concepts in the generated images
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SafeRoPE achieves SOTA performance in balancing effective harmful content mitigation and utility preservation for safe generation of MMDiT
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their expensive computational overhead and design tailored to U-Net-based denoisers hinder direct adaptation to transformer-based diffusion models
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we propose SafeRoPE, a lightweight and fine-grained safe generation framework for MMDiT
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SafeRoPE combines both head-wise LRS and RoPE perturbations to perform risk-specific head-wise rotation on query and key vector embeddings, enabling precise suppression of unsafe outputs while maintaining generation fidelity
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Recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models based on rectified-flow transformers (e.g., SD3, FLUX) achieve high generative fidelity but remain vulnerable to unsafe semantics, especially when triggered by multi-token interactions
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