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Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have shown impressive results in generating visually compelling images following user prompts. Building on this, various methods further fine-tune the pre-trained T2I model for specific tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Tsu-Jui Fu , Yusu Qian , Chen Chen , Wenze Hu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang

Uncertainty quantification in text-to-image (T2I) generative models is crucial for understanding model behavior and improving output reliability. In this paper, we are the first to quantify and evaluate the uncertainty of T2I models with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Gianni Franchi , Dat Nguyen Trong , Nacim Belkhir , Guoxuan Xia , Andrea Pilzer

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

Text-to-image generative models often reflect the biases of the training data, leading to unequal representations of underrepresented groups. This study investigates inclusive text-to-image generative models that generate images based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Cheng Zhang , Xuanbai Chen , Siqi Chai , Chen Henry Wu , Dmitry Lagun , Thabo Beeler , Fernando De la Torre

Although recent text-to-image generative models have achieved impressive performance, they still often struggle with capturing the compositional complexities of prompts including attribute binding, and spatial relationships between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Seyed Mohammad Hadi Hosseini , Amir Mohammad Izadi , Ali Abdollahi , Armin Saghafian , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

Text-to-image diffusion models, which are theoretically equivalent to score-based generative models, generate images through a multi-step denoising process guided by text embeddings extracted from pretrained vision-language models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Seung Hyuk Lee , Songkuk Kim

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has advanced rapidly, making reliable evaluation critical as performance differences between models narrow. Existing evaluation practices typically apply uniform annotation mechanisms, such as Likert-scale or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Abdelrahman Eldesokey , Merey Ramazanova , Ahmad Sait , Ansar Khangeldin , Karen Sanchez , Tong Zhang , Bernard Ghanem

A person downloading a pre-trained model from the web should be aware of its biases. Existing approaches for bias identification rely on datasets containing labels for the task of interest, something that a non-expert may not have access…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Quentin Guimard , Moreno D'Incà , Massimiliano Mancini , Elisa Ricci

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) models has increased the need for reliable human preference modeling, a demand further amplified by recent progress in reinforcement learning for preference alignment. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yuxiang Guo , Jiang Liu , Ze Wang , Hao Chen , Ximeng Sun , Yang Zhao , Jialian Wu , Xiaodong Yu , Zicheng Liu , Emad Barsoum

Bias amplification is a phenomenon in which models exacerbate biases or stereotypes present in the training data. In this paper, we study bias amplification in the text-to-image domain using Stable Diffusion by comparing gender ratios in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Preethi Seshadri , Sameer Singh , Yanai Elazar

Text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced considerably in generating high-quality images from textual descriptions. However, their ability to associate colors with concepts remains largely constrained to explicit color names or codes, while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chenxi Ruan , Yihan Hou , Yu Xiao , Guosheng Hu , Wei Zeng

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

Recent large-scale T2I models like DALLE-3 have made progress in reducing gender stereotypes when generating single-person images. However, significant biases remain when generating images with more than one person. To systematically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yixin Wan , Kai-Wei Chang

Text-to-image models are known to propagate social biases. For example, when prompted to generate images of people in certain professions, these models tend to systematically generate specific genders or ethnicities. In this paper, we show…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Guorun Wang , Lucia Specia

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models produce visually stunning images and demonstrate excellent prompt following. But do they perform well as synthetic vision data generators? In this work, we revisit the promise of synthetic data as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Krzysztof Adamkiewicz , Brian Bernhard Moser , Stanislav Frolov , Tobias Christian Nauen , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Image editing models are advancing rapidly, yet comprehensive evaluation remains a significant challenge. Existing image editing benchmarks generally suffer from limited task scopes, insufficient evaluation dimensions, and heavy reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Juntong Wang , Jiarui Wang , Huiyu Duan , Jiaxiang Kang , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

This paper proposes a novel interdisciplinary framework for the critical evaluation of text-to-image models, addressing the limitations of current technical metrics and bias studies. By integrating art historical analysis, artistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Amalia Foka

The widespread adoption of generative AI models has raised growing concerns about representational harm and potential discriminatory outcomes. Yet, despite growing literature on this topic, the mechanisms by which bias emerges - especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiaofeng Zhang , Michelle Lin , Simon Lacoste-Julien , Aaron Courville , Yash Goyal

With the growing adoption of Text-to-Image (TTI) systems, the social biases of these models have come under increased scrutiny. Herein we conduct a systematic investigation of one such source of bias for diffusion models: embedding spaces.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Sahil Kuchlous , Marvin Li , Jeffrey G. Wang

Personalized image generation via text prompts has great potential to improve daily life and professional work by facilitating the creation of customized visual content. The aim of image personalization is to create images based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Mingxiao Li , Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens