arxivcs.CV2026-06-30
DriftScope: Measuring The Hidden Effects of Diffusion Model Adaptation
Héctor Laria, Yiping Han, Julian D. Santamaria, Kai Wang, Bogdan Raducanu, Joost van de Weijer, et al.
Adapting pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, whether to learn new visual concepts or erase unwanted ones, is routinely evaluated on its intended effects alone. We argue this framing is incomplete. Through sparse autoencoder analysis and zero-shot classification, we demons…