Public Diffusion Models, Private Images: Key-Controlled Inversion for Conditional Reconstruction (opens in new tab)

Diffusion models are often deployed in settings where model parameters are publicly accessible (e.g., open-source libraries or released checkpoints). This white-box scenario creates a serious security risk: any user who obtains an intermediate latent representation can invert the process to recover the original input image. Most prior work on access control for generative models assumes a black-box model (i.e., parameters are kept secret), typic...