Preprint
Aug 2026
DefaultShift: Auditing Semantic Default Shift in Accelerated Text-to-Image Models
Few-step text-to-image models increasingly replace slower generators, yet acceleration can silently change distributions over unspecified attributes even when individual outputs remain plausible and aligned. We call these distributions semantic defaults and their change under replacement semantic default shift. Existin...
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