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Diffusion models for Text-to-Image (T2I) conditional generation have recently achieved tremendous success. Yet, aligning these models with user's intentions still involves a laborious trial-and-error process, and this challenging alignment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Chao Wang , Giulio Franzese , Alessandro Finamore , Massimo Gallo , Pietro Michiardi

Despite their impressive capabilities, diffusion-based text-to-image (T2I) models can lack faithfulness to the text prompt, where generated images may not contain all the mentioned objects, attributes or relations. To alleviate these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Shyamgopal Karthik , Karsten Roth , Massimiliano Mancini , Zeynep Akata

The rapid advancement of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models has enabled them to generate unprecedented results from given texts. However, as text inputs become longer, existing encoding methods like CLIP face limitations, and aligning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Luping Liu , Chao Du , Tianyu Pang , Zehan Wang , Chongxuan Li , Dong Xu

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models (DMs) have shown promise in generating high-quality images from textual descriptions. The real-world applications of these models require particular attention to their safety and fidelity, but this has…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-26 Hongcheng Gao , Hao Zhang , Yinpeng Dong , Zhijie Deng

Learning from human feedback has been shown to improve text-to-image models. These techniques first learn a reward function that captures what humans care about in the task and then improve the models based on the learned reward function.…

Diffusion models are widely used for generative tasks across domains. Given a pre-trained diffusion model, it is often desirable to fine-tune it further either to correct for errors in learning or to align with downstream applications.…

Text-to-image synthesis has made significant progress, benefiting from the strong generative capabilities of diffusion models. However, these models struggle to achieve precise text-to-image alignment within cross-attention maps during the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shipeng Cao , Biao Qian , Haipeng Liu , Yang Wang , Meng Wang

When humans read a specific text, they often visualize the corresponding images, and we hope that computers can do the same. Text-to-image synthesis (T2I), which focuses on generating high-quality images from textual descriptions, has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Nonghai Zhang , Hao Tang

Recent text-to-image (T2I) models generate semantically coherent images from textual prompts, yet evaluating how well they align with individual user preferences remains an open challenge. Conventional evaluation methods, general reward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jeongeun Lee , Ryang Heo , Dongha Lee

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 works have demonstrated that using reinforcement learning (RL) with multiple quality rewards can improve the quality of generated images in text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, manually adjusting reward weights poses challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Seung Hyun Lee , Yinxiao Li , Junjie Ke , Innfarn Yoo , Han Zhang , Jiahui Yu , Qifei Wang , Fei Deng , Glenn Entis , Junfeng He , Gang Li , Sangpil Kim , Irfan Essa , Feng Yang

The rapid advancement of text-to-image Diffusion Models has led to their widespread public accessibility. However these models, trained on large internet datasets, can sometimes generate undesirable outputs. To mitigate this, approximate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Andrea Schioppa , Emiel Hoogeboom , Jonathan Heek

Autoregressive (AR) models are highly effective for image generation, yet their standard maximum-likelihood estimation training lacks direct optimization for sample quality and diversity. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Orhun Buğra Baran , Melih Kandemir , Ramazan Gokberk Cinbis

Text-to-Image (T2I) Diffusion Models (DMs) have shown impressive abilities in generating high-quality images based on simple text descriptions. However, as is common with many Deep Learning (DL) models, DMs are subject to a lack of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Yi Zhang , Yun Tang , Wenjie Ruan , Xiaowei Huang , Siddartha Khastgir , Paul Jennings , Xingyu Zhao

Aligning generative diffusion models with human preferences via reinforcement learning (RL) is critical yet challenging. Most existing algorithms are often vulnerable to reward hacking, such as quality degradation, over-stylization, or…

Image colorization has been attracting the research interests of the community for decades. However, existing methods still struggle to provide satisfactory colorized results given grayscale images due to a lack of human-like global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Hanyuan Liu , Jinbo Xing , Minshan Xie , Chengze Li , Tien-Tsin Wong

Learning-based Text-to-Image (TTI) models like Stable Diffusion have revolutionized the way visual content is generated in various domains. However, recent research has shown that nonnegligible social bias exists in current state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-23 Ruifei He , Chuhui Xue , Haoru Tan , Wenqing Zhang , Yingchen Yu , Song Bai , Xiaojuan Qi

Scaling up model and data size has been quite successful for the evolution of LLMs. However, the scaling law for the diffusion based text-to-image (T2I) models is not fully explored. It is also unclear how to efficiently scale the model for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Hao Li , Yang Zou , Ying Wang , Orchid Majumder , Yusheng Xie , R. Manmatha , Ashwin Swaminathan , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Ermon , Stefano Soatto

This work addresses the challenge of quantifying originality in text-to-image (T2I) generative diffusion models, with a focus on copyright originality. We begin by evaluating T2I models' ability to innovate and generalize through controlled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Adi Haviv , Shahar Sarfaty , Uri Hacohen , Niva Elkin-Koren , Roi Livni , Amit H Bermano

Personalizing text-to-image diffusion models involves integrating novel visual concepts from a small set of reference images while retaining the model's original generative capabilities. However, this process often leads to overfitting,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Gihoon Kim , Hyungjin Park , Taesup Kim