---
library_name: diffusers
license: mit
pipeline_tag: text-to-image
tags:
- text-to-image
- safety-alignment
- stable-diffusion
- ECCV
---

# SAGE: Structure-Aware Geometric Regularization (ECCV-26)

**Paper:** [The Illusion of High Utility in Safety Alignment of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://huggingface.co/papers/2607.00402)  
**Authors:** Adeel Yousaf, Soumik Ghosh, James Beetham, Amrit Singh Bedi, Mubarak Shah  
**Institution:** University of Central Florida  
**Project Page:** [https://adeelyousaf.github.io/SAGE_ECCV26_Project_Page/](https://adeelyousaf.github.io/SAGE_ECCV26_Project_Page/)

---

## Overview

We show that existing T2I safety alignment methods create an **illusion of high utility** — they appear to maintain high utility under coarse metrics (FID, CLIPScore) but suffer significant drops in fine-grained semantic fidelity (TIFA). We trace this to **semantic collapse** in the text encoder embedding space.

**SAGE** is a geometry-aware safety alignment method that preserves embedding spread and local similarity structure during fine-tuning, achieving only a **−1.2% TIFA drop** vs. **−6.2% for DES** while maintaining strong safety (Avg. ASR 1.2%).

---

## Use this Model

```python
import torch
from diffusers import StableDiffusionPipeline
from huggingface_hub import hf_hub_download

# Load base pipeline
pipe = StableDiffusionPipeline.from_pretrained("CompVis/stable-diffusion-v1-4")

# Download and load SAGE text encoder weights
ckpt_path = hf_hub_download(repo_id="Adeely93/SAGE", filename="SAGE.pt")
pipe.text_encoder.load_state_dict(torch.load(ckpt_path, map_location="cpu"))

pipe = pipe.to("cuda")
image = pipe("a photo of a dog in a park").images[0]
```