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## Summary  
Logo unlearning is a growing concern for protecting corporate branding in text‑to‑image models, yet most existing benchmarks focus on dominant visual concepts such as styles or object categories, leaving company logos understudied. The LU‑500 benchmark addresses this gap by curating nearly 10 000 pairs of Fortune Global 500 logos and images that illustrate how a small, localized mark can carry an entire protected concept. It introduces a dual‑track (explicit LUex‑500 and implicit LUim‑500) evaluation protocol that measures both local logo removal and global image preservation in pixel and latent spaces. The study demonstrates that current inference‑time and fine‑tuning methods fail to erase the logo without altering non‑target content, highlighting a need for more sophisticated controls.

## Key Contributions  
- [Finding 1] LU‑500 provides a large, curated dataset of Fortune Global 500 logos paired with diverse images, establishing a benchmark that captures localized and semantically entangled protected concepts.  
- [Finding 2] The authors propose a multi‑grained evaluation protocol that assesses local logo erasure alongside global image preservation in both pixel and latent representations, moving beyond binary detector scores.  
- [Finding 3] Prompt‑space analysis with ProLU shows that removing logo‑inducing semantics is insufficient; weight‑level disentanglement remains essential for effective unlearning.

## Methodology  
The dataset was assembled by selecting logos from the Fortune Global 500 list and generating paired images where each query contains a text prompt. Two evaluation tracks were created: LUex‑500 records whether the logo is explicitly removed, while LUim‑500 measures any residual visual trace of the logo in the output. The multi‑grained protocol evaluates three dimensions—local removal (pixel and latent), global preservation (pixel and latent), and semantic fidelity—to produce a comprehensive score for each method.

## Results  
Experiments were conducted on representative inference‑time baselines (NP, SLD, SEGA) and fine‑tuning approaches (ESD, Forget‑Me‑Not). All methods failed to achieve significant logo removal without degrading the surrounding image content. Correlation analyses revealed that logo area, placement, and structural complexity strongly influence failure rates, suggesting that purely global suppression is inadequate. The ProLU baseline improved local erasure by eliminating logo‑related prompts but still required weight‑level interventions.

## Significance  
This work matters because logos are a frequent target for copyright infringement and brand dilution in generative AI. By quantifying the difficulty of logo unlearning under realistic conditions, LU‑500 guides future research toward spatially aware constraints (e.g., SSIM‑guided) rather than blanket concept suppression.

## Related Concepts  
- Concept unlearning  
- Logo protection  
- Multi‑grained evaluation  
- Weight‑level disentanglement  
- Prompt filtering  
- Spatial awareness in generative models