DiSCO: Defending text-to-image generation through distribution-guided contrastive prompt optimization
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Tong Zhang, Motasem Alfarra, Carlos Hinojosa, Christos Louizos, Bernard Ghanem
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Tong Zhang, Motasem Alfarra, Carlos Hinojosa, Christos Louizos, Bernard Ghanem
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Why it matters
Identifies a class of prompts that pass text filters yet still produce unsafe images, and defends against it purely at the prompt layer — usable against closed image models where weight editing or encoder tuning is impossible.
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