MapRoute:Precise-Concept Erasing Mappers via Semantic Routing

Sihao Li, Baixi Liang, Shuohong Xia, Yunyun Yang; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026, pp. 10187-10196

Contemporary commercial and open-source diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in text-to-image generation, enabling widespread applications in creative design and content creation. However, legitimate requirements--such as copyright protection, privacy compliance, or personalized customization--often necessitate the removal of specific semantic concepts from pretrained models. Existing concept erasure methods suffer from two critical limitations: (1) **Incomplete suppression**, where the model still occasionally generates images containing the target concept; (2) **Poor semantic selectivity**, which degrades the generation quality of unrelated concepts and compromises overall model utility.To address these challenges, we propose **`MapRoute`**, a lightweight, semantics-aware concept erasure framework based on dynamic routing. Our approach introduces a set of modular components--termed *Mappers*--placed after a frozen pretrained text encoder. Each Mapper learns a linear mapping from a target concept to a surrogate concept. During inference, the system dynamically activates the top-K Mappers most relevant to the input prompt, based on cosine similarity between the text embedding and all the target concept embeddings, and applies their transformations sequentially. This input-driven, modular intervention enables precise, on-demand erasure while avoiding unnecessary interference with irrelevant semantics.Extensive experiments demonstrate that **`MapRoute`** effectively suppresses specified concepts while significantly reducing collateral damage to unrelated concept. By operating without full-model fine-tuning, our method entirely avoids parameter drift and concept erosion. Moreover, **`MapRoute`** outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in terms of generation fidelity, semantic consistency, and scalability to multi-concept erasure scenarios.