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Text-to-image (T2I) generation has made significant advances in recent years, but challenges still remain in the generation of perceptual artifacts, misalignment with complex prompts, and safety. The prevailing approach to address these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Xiaoying Xing , Avinab Saha , Junfeng He , Susan Hao , Paul Vicol , Moonkyung Ryu , Gang Li , Sahil Singla , Sarah Young , Yinxiao Li , Feng Yang , Deepak Ramachandran

In this work, we focus on the alignment problem of diffusion models with a continuous reward function, which represents specific objectives for downstream tasks, such as increasing darkness or improving the aesthetics of images. The central…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Zhiwei Tang , Jiangweizhi Peng , Jiasheng Tang , Mingyi Hong , Fan Wang , Tsung-Hui Chang

Recent advancements highlight the importance of GRPO-based reinforcement learning methods and benchmarking in enhancing text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, current methods using pointwise reward models (RM) for scoring generated images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yibin Wang , Zhimin Li , Yuhang Zang , Yujie Zhou , Jiazi Bu , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Cheng Jin , Jiaqi Wang

Recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of directly aligning diffusion models with human preferences using differentiable reward. However, they exhibit two primary challenges: (1) they rely on multistep denoising with gradient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Xiangwei Shen , Zhimin Li , Zhantao Yang , Shiyi Zhang , Yingfang Zhang , Donghao Li , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu , Yansong Tang

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have become prominent tools for generating high-fidelity images from text prompts. However, when trained on unfiltered internet data, these models can produce unsafe, incorrect, or stylistically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-11 Rohit Jena , Ali Taghibakhshi , Sahil Jain , Gerald Shen , Nima Tajbakhsh , Arash Vahdat

Aligning Text-to-Image (T2I) generation models with human preferences increasingly relies on image reward models that score or rank generated images according to prompt alignment and perceptual quality. Existing reward models are commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Kuei-Chun Kao , Daixuan Huo , Yuanhao Ban , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Impressive advances in text-to-image (T2I) generative models have yielded a plethora of high performing models which are able to generate aesthetically appealing, photorealistic images. Despite the progress, these models still struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Oscar Mañas , Pietro Astolfi , Melissa Hall , Candace Ross , Jack Urbanek , Adina Williams , Aishwarya Agrawal , Adriana Romero-Soriano , Michal Drozdzal

Current text-to-image (T2I) benchmarks evaluate models on rigid prompts, potentially underestimating true generative capabilities due to prompt sensitivity and creating biases that favor certain models while disadvantaging others. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Haosheng Gan , Berk Tinaz , Mohammad Shahab Sepehri , Zalan Fabian , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi

In text-to-image (T2I) generation applications, negative embeddings have proven to be a simple yet effective approach for enhancing generation quality. Typically, these negative embeddings are derived from user-defined negative prompts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Xiaomin Li , Yixuan Liu , Takashi Isobe , Xu Jia , Qinpeng Cui , Dong Zhou , Dong Li , You He , Huchuan Lu , Zhongdao Wang , Emad Barsoum

Reinforcement learning (RL) can improve the prompt following capability of text-to-image (T2I) models, yet obtaining high-quality reward signals remains challenging: CLIP Score is too coarse-grained, while VLM-based reward models (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Jinlong Liu , Wanggui He , Peng Zhang , Mushui Liu , Hao Jiang , Pipei Huang

Recently, the strong latent Diffusion Probabilistic Model (DPM) has been applied to high-quality Text-to-Image (T2I) generation (e.g., Stable Diffusion), by injecting the encoded target text prompt into the gradually denoised diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Mingyang Yi , Aoxue Li , Yi Xin , Zhenguo Li

Preference optimization for diffusion models aims to align them with human preferences for images. Previous methods typically use Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as pixel-level reward models to approximate human preferences. However, when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Tao Zhang , Cheng Da , Kun Ding , Huan Yang , Kun Jin , Yan Li , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Prompt design plays a crucial role in text-to-video (T2V) generation, yet user-provided prompts are often short, unstructured, and misaligned with training data, limiting the generative potential of diffusion-based T2V models. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Bingjie Gao , Qianli Ma , Xiaoxue Wu , Shuai Yang , Guanzhou Lan , Haonan Zhao , Jiaxuan Chen , Qingyang Liu , Yu Qiao , Xinyuan Chen , Yaohui Wang , Li Niu

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard approach for post-training large language models and, more recently, for improving image generation models, which uses reward functions to enhance generation quality and human preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Yunqi Hong , Kuei-Chun Kao , Hengguang Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Self-rewarding have emerged recently as a powerful tool in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP), allowing language models to generate high-quality relevant responses by providing their own rewards during training. This innovative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Safouane El Ghazouali , Arnaud Gucciardi , Umberto Michelucci

Despite the success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in language reasoning, its application to autoregressive Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is often constrained by the limited availability of human preference data. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Yihang Chen , Yuanhao Ban , Yunqi Hong , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Optimizing a text-to-image diffusion model with a given reward function is an important but underexplored research area. In this study, we propose Deep Reward Tuning (DRTune), an algorithm that directly supervises the final output image of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Xiaoshi Wu , Yiming Hao , Manyuan Zhang , Keqiang Sun , Zhaoyang Huang , Guanglu Song , Yu Liu , Hongsheng Li

Learning from feedback has been shown to enhance the alignment between text prompts and images in text-to-image diffusion models. However, due to the lack of focus in feedback content, especially regarding the object type and quantity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Xuexiang Niu , Jinping Tang , Lei Wang , Ge Zhu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated impressive performance in generating high-fidelity images, largely enabled by text-guided inference. However, this advantage often comes with a critical drawback: limited diversity, as…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Byungjun Kim , Soobin Um , Jong Chul Ye

Recent text-to-image (T2I) diffusion and flow-matching models can produce highly realistic images from natural language prompts. In practical scenarios, T2I systems are often run in a ``generate--then--select'' mode: many seeds are sampled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Huanlei Guo , Hongxin Wei , Bingyi Jing