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Training-Free Multi-Style Fusion Through Reference-Based Adaptive Modulation

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-09-24 v1

Abstract

We propose Adaptive Multi-Style Fusion (AMSF), a reference-based training-free framework that enables controllable fusion of multiple reference styles in diffusion models. Most of the existing reference-based methods are limited by (a) acceptance of only one style image, thus prohibiting hybrid aesthetics and scalability to more styles, and (b) lack of a principled mechanism to balance several stylistic influences. AMSF mitigates these challenges by encoding all style images and textual hints with a semantic token decomposition module that is adaptively injected into every cross-attention layer of an frozen diffusion model. A similarity-aware re-weighting module then recalibrates, at each denoising step, the attention allocated to every style component, yielding balanced and user-controllable blends without any fine-tuning or external adapters. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that AMSF produces multi-style fusion results that consistently outperform the state-of-the-art approaches, while its fusion design scales seamlessly to two or more styles. These capabilities position AMSF as a practical step toward expressive multi-style generation in diffusion models.

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@article{arxiv.2509.18602,
  title  = {Training-Free Multi-Style Fusion Through Reference-Based Adaptive Modulation},
  author = {Xu Liu and Yibo Lu and Xinxian Wang and Xinyu Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.18602},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted at ACPR 2025 (oral)

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