PECKER: A Precisely Efficient Critical Knowledge Erasure Recipe For Machine Unlearning in Diffusion Models

Machine unlearning (MU) has become a critical technique for GenAI models' safe and compliant operation. While existing MU methods are effective, most impose prohibitive training time and computational overhead. Our analysis suggests the root cause lies in poorly directed gradient updates, which reduce training efficiency and destabilize convergence. To mitigate these issues, we propose PECKER, an efficient MU approach that matches or outperforms prevailing methods. Within a distillation framework, PECKER introduces a saliency mask to prioritize updates to parameters that contribute most to forgetting the targeted data, thereby reducing unnecessary gradient computation and shortening overall training time without sacrificing unlearning efficacy. Our method generates samples that unlearn related class or concept more quickly, while closely aligning with the true image distribution on CIFAR-10 and STL-10 datasets, achieving shorter training times for both class forgetting and concept forgetting.

ES-Gaussian: Gaussian Splatting Mapping via Error Space-Based Gaussian Completion

Accurate and affordable indoor 3D reconstruction is critical for effective robot navigation and interaction. Traditional LiDAR-based mapping provides high precision but is costly, heavy, and power-intensive, with limited ability for novel view rendering. Vision-based mapping, while cost-effective and capable of capturing visual data, often struggles with high-quality 3D reconstruction due to sparse point clouds. We propose ES-Gaussian, an end-to-end system using a low-altitude camera and single-line LiDAR for high-quality 3D indoor reconstruction. Our system features Visual Error Construction (VEC) to enhance sparse point clouds by identifying and correcting areas with insufficient geometric detail from 2D error maps. Additionally, we introduce a novel 3DGS initialization method guided by single-line LiDAR, overcoming the limitations of traditional multi-view setups and enabling effective reconstruction in resource-constrained environments. Extensive experimental results on our new Dreame-SR dataset and a publicly available dataset demonstrate that ES-Gaussian outperforms existing methods, particularly in challenging scenarios. The project page is available at https://chenlu-china.github.io/ES-Gaussian/.