Keywords: diffusion models, MCMC sampling, image memorization, safety ai
TL;DR: We introduce a benchmark containing prompts that induce memorized images in text-to-image diffusion models. Using this benchmark, we evaluate various memorization mitigation methods.
Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in Text-to-Image generation tasks, leading to the development of many commercial models. However, recent studies have reported that diffusion models often repeatedly generate memorized images in train data when triggered by specific prompts, potentially raising social issues ranging from copyright to privacy concerns. To sidestep the memorization, there have been recent studies for developing memorization mitigation methods for diffusion models. Nevertheless, the lack of benchmarks hinders the assessment of the true effectiveness of these methods. In this work, we present MemBench, the first benchmark for evaluating image memorization mitigation methods. Our benchmark includes a large number of memorized image trigger prompts in various Text-to-Image diffusion models. Furthermore, in contrast to the prior work evaluating mitigation performance only on trigger prompts, we present metrics evaluating on both trigger prompts and general prompts, so that we can see whether mitigation methods address the memorization issue while maintaining performance for general prompts. Through our MemBench evaluation, we revealed that existing memorization mitigation methods notably degrade overall performance of diffusion models and need to be further developed.
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Primary Area: generative models
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