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AutoAnchor: Stable Diffusion Unlearning Using Cross-Attention as a Manifold Surrogate

2026-07-09 · Siyuan Wen, Jiahao Zeng, Ningning Ding arxiv

Diffusion unlearning is essential for mitigating the generation of harmful or copyrighted content in text-to-image models. Current diffusion unlearning techniques determine the model update direction by either using alternatives of the target concept as an anchor or using empty prompts. The anchor-based method relies on manually and semantically-chosen anchors that risk biased unlearning, while the anchor-free method inherently suffers from unrobust unlearning due to unconstrained latent updates. In this work, we theoretically formalize such unstable diffusion unlearning issues under the manifold hypothesis and prove that lacking a manifold-proximal anchor inevitably induces significant normal-space drift that degrades unlearning performance. To achieve stable unlearning, we propose \mysysn, a two-stage framework that automatically synthesizes manifold-proximal anchors. However, direct geometric manifold optimization is computationally intractable. To address this challenge, \mysys introduces a novel cross-attention consistency loss which serves as a highly efficient surrogate of manifold proximity. Experimental results demonstrate that \mysys effectively achieves robust and unbiased unlearning across various state-of-the-art baselines, significantly improving targeted concept removal (by up to 31.04\% in CLIP score) and non-target utility (by up to 4.18\% in CLIP score). Moreover, \mysys can also be easily integrated into existing diffusion unlearning methods to enhance their unlearning performance (by 6.30\% for concept removal and 6.65\% for utility on average).

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