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Evidence shows that text-to-image (T2I) models disproportionately reflect Western cultural norms, amplifying misrepresentation and harms to minority groups. However, evaluating cultural sensitivity is inherently complex due to its fluid and…

We present an automated way to evaluate the text alignment of text-to-image generative diffusion models using standard image-text recognition datasets. Our method, called SelfEval, uses the generative model to compute the likelihood of real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Sai Saketh Rambhatla , Ishan Misra

Text-to-image (T2I) generative models are increasingly used to produce content for education, media, and public-facing communication, and are starting to be integrated into higher-impact pipelines. Since generated images tend to reinforce…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Jose Luna , Yankun Wu , Xiaofei Xie , Noa Garcia

Previous text-to-image synthesis algorithms typically use explicit textual instructions to generate/manipulate images accurately, but they have difficulty adapting to guidance in the form of coarsely matched texts. In this work, we attempt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Mengyao Cui , Zhe Zhu , Shao-Ping Lu , Yulu Yang

Recent studies have shown that Text-to-Image (T2I) model generations can reflect social stereotypes present in the real world. However, existing approaches for evaluating stereotypes have a noticeable lack of coverage of global identity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Akshita Jha , Vinodkumar Prabhakaran , Remi Denton , Sarah Laszlo , Shachi Dave , Rida Qadri , Chandan K. Reddy , Sunipa Dev

Text-to-image generative models have shown remarkable progress in producing diverse and photorealistic outputs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of their effectiveness in creating synthetic portraits that accurately…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Alexey A. Novikov , Miroslav Vranka , François David , Artem Voronin

Recent advances in text-to-image generation have improved the quality of synthesized images, but evaluations mainly focus on aesthetics or alignment with text prompts. Thus, it remains unclear whether these models can accurately represent a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hsin-Ping Huang , Xinyi Wang , Yonatan Bitton , Hagai Taitelbaum , Gaurav Singh Tomar , Ming-Wei Chang , Xuhui Jia , Kelvin C. K. Chan , Hexiang Hu , Yu-Chuan Su , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This study examines how Large Language Models (LLMs) can reduce biases in text-to-image generation systems by modifying user prompts. We define bias as a model's unfair deviation from population statistics given neutral prompts. Our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 René Peinl

Text-to-image (T2I) models, and their encoded biases, increasingly shape the visual media the public encounters. While researchers have produced a rich body of work on bias measurement, auditing, and mitigation in T2I systems, those methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bochu Ding , Brinnae Bent , Augustus Wendell

Bias discovery is critical for black-box generative models, especiall text-to-image (TTI) models. Existing works predominantly focus on output-level demographic distributions, which do not necessarily guarantee concept representations to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Rajatsubhra Chakraborty , Xujun Che , Depeng Xu , Cori Faklaris , Xi Niu , Shuhan Yuan

Text-to-image generation methods produce high-resolution and high-quality images, but these methods should not produce immoral images that may contain inappropriate content from the perspective of commonsense morality. In this paper, we aim…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Seongbeom Park , Suhong Moon , Jinkyu Kim

Text-to-image (T2I) models have emerged as a significant advancement in generative AI; however, there exist safety concerns regarding their potential to produce harmful image outputs even when users input seemingly safe prompts. This…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Susan Hao , Renee Shelby , Yuchi Liu , Hansa Srinivasan , Mukul Bhutani , Burcu Karagol Ayan , Ryan Poplin , Shivani Poddar , Sarah Laszlo

Subject-driven text-to-image generation still struggles to preserve high-frequency identity details such as logos, patterns, and text. Existing methods typically operate directly in RGB space, which often leads to detail degradation under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Hanzhong Guo , Yizhou Yu

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed worldview and restrict opportunities for minority groups. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Xudong Shen , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin , Yongkang Wong , Mohan Kankanhalli

The field of text-to-image (T2I) generation has garnered significant attention both within the research community and among everyday users. Despite the advancements of T2I models, a common issue encountered by users is the need for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Wanrong Zhu , Xinyi Wang , Yujie Lu , Tsu-Jui Fu , Xin Eric Wang , Miguel Eckstein , William Yang Wang

Ethical intervention prompting has emerged as a tool to counter demographic biases of text-to-image generative AI models. Existing solutions either require to retrain the model or struggle to generate images that reflect desired…

Recent advancements in image generation technology have enabled widespread access to AI-generated imagery, prominently used in advertising, entertainment, and progressively in every form of visual content. However, these technologies often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Yannis Tevissen

Despite recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) generation, existing models often struggle to faithfully capture user intentions from short and under-specified prompts. While prior work has attempted to enhance prompts using large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Mingrui Wu , Lu Wang , Pu Zhao , Fangkai Yang , Jianjin Zhang , Jianfeng Liu , Yuefeng Zhan , Weihao Han , Hao Sun , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun , Qingwei Lin , Weiwei Deng , Dongmei Zhang , Feng Sun , Qi Zhang , Rongrong Ji

This paper addresses the performance bottlenecks of existing text-driven image generation methods in terms of semantic alignment accuracy and structural consistency. A high-fidelity image generation method is proposed by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Danyi Gao

Text-to-image models, which can generate high-quality images based on textual input, have recently enabled various content-creation tools. Despite significantly affecting a wide range of downstream applications, the distributions of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yanzhe Zhang , Lu Jiang , Greg Turk , Diyi Yang