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CARVE: Concept Avoidance via Reward-shaped Visual Erasure

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This work treats diffusion-based image generation as a sequential decision process and uses Diffusion Denoising Policy Optimization (DDPO) to learn a policy that steers generation away from a chosen target concept - in this case, "teddy bear."

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