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MINDiff: Mask-Integrated Negative Attention for Controlling Overfitting in Text-to-Image Personalization

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-11-25 v1

Abstract

In the personalization process of large-scale text-to-image models, overfitting often occurs when learning specific subject from a limited number of images. Existing methods, such as DreamBooth, mitigate this issue through a class-specific prior-preservation loss, which requires increased computational cost during training and limits user control during inference time. To address these limitations, we propose Mask-Integrated Negative Attention Diffusion (MINDiff). MINDiff introduces a novel concept, negative attention, which suppresses the subject's influence in masked irrelevant regions. We achieve this by modifying the cross-attention mechanism during inference. This enables semantic control and improves text alignment by reducing subject dominance in irrelevant regions. Additionally, during the inference time, users can adjust a scale parameter lambda to balance subject fidelity and text alignment. Our qualitative and quantitative experiments on DreamBooth models demonstrate that MINDiff mitigates overfitting more effectively than class-specific prior-preservation loss. As our method operates entirely at inference time and does not alter the model architecture, it can be directly applied to existing DreamBooth models without re-training. Our code is available at https://github.com/seuleepy/MINDiff.

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@article{arxiv.2511.17888,
  title  = {MINDiff: Mask-Integrated Negative Attention for Controlling Overfitting in Text-to-Image Personalization},
  author = {Seulgi Jeong and Jaeil Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.17888},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted at ICCV 2025 Personalization in Generative AI Workshop

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