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Over the past few years, Text-to-Image (T2I) generation approaches based on diffusion models have gained significant attention. However, vanilla diffusion models often suffer from spelling inaccuracies in the text displayed within the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Sanyam Lakhanpal , Shivang Chopra , Vinija Jain , Aman Chadha , Man Luo

Text-to-image (T2I) models have advanced creative content generation, yet their reliance on large uncurated datasets often reproduces societal biases. We present FairT2I, a training-free and interactive framework grounded in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jinya Sakurai , Yuki Koyama , Issei Sato

Text-to-image (T2I) models are widespread, but their limited safety guardrails expose end users to harmful content and potentially allow for model misuse. Current safety measures are typically limited to text-based filtering or concept…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Runtao Liu , I Chieh Chen , Jindong Gu , Jipeng Zhang , Renjie Pi , Qifeng Chen , Philip Torr , Ashkan Khakzar , Fabio Pizzati

Diffusion models have revitalized the image generation domain, playing crucial roles in both academic research and artistic expression. With the emergence of new diffusion models, assessing the performance of text-to-image models has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Chutian Meng , Fan Ma , Jiaxu Miao , Chi Zhang , Yi Yang , Yueting Zhuang

Text-to-image models are powerful for producing high-quality images based on given text prompts, but crafting these prompts often requires specialized vocabulary. To address this, existing methods train rewriting models with supervision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Hongji Yang , Yucheng Zhou , Wencheng Han , Jianbing Shen

Text-to-image (T2I) customization aims to create images that embody specific visual concepts delineated in textual descriptions. However, existing works still face a main challenge, concept overfitting. To tackle this challenge, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Weili Zeng , Yichao Yan , Qi Zhu , Zhuo Chen , Pengzhi Chu , Weiming Zhao , Xiaokang Yang

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 progress in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models (DMs) has enabled high-quality visual synthesis from diverse textual prompts. Yet, most existing T2I DMs, even those equipped with large language model (LLM)-based text encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Siqi Kou , Jiachun Jin , Zetong Zhou , Ye Ma , Yugang Wang , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang , Xiao Yang , Jun Zhu , Kai Yu , Zhijie Deng

Recent advances in text-to-video (T2V) diffusion models have significantly enhanced the quality of generated videos. However, their capability to produce explicit or harmful content introduces new challenges related to misuse and potential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Xiaoyu Ye , Songjie Cheng , Yongtao Wang , Yajiao Xiong , Yishen Li

We introduce the Local Intersectional Visual Spaces (LIVS) dataset, a benchmark for multi-criteria alignment, developed through a two-year participatory process with 30 community organizations to support the pluralistic alignment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Rashid Mushkani , Shravan Nayak , Hugo Berard , Allison Cohen , Shin Koseki , Hadrien Bertrand

Content safety is a fundamental challenge for text-to-image (T2I) models, yet prevailing methods enforce a debilitating trade-off between safety and generation quality. We argue that mitigating this trade-off hinges on addressing systemic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Shouwei Ruan , Zhenyu Wu , Yao Huang , Ruochen Zhang , Yitong Sun , Caixin Kang , Shiji Zhao , Xingxing Wei

Blending visual and textual concepts into a new visual concept is a unique and powerful trait of human beings that can fuel creativity. However, in practice, cross-modal conceptual blending for humans is prone to cognitive biases, like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Wonwoong Cho , Yanxia Zhang , Yan-Ying Chen , David I. Inouye

Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have drawn attention for their ability to generate high-quality images with precise text alignment. However, these models can also be misused to produce inappropriate content. Existing safety measures,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Hongxiang Zhang , Yifeng He , Hao Chen

Despite the impressive text-to-image (T2I) synthesis capabilities of diffusion models, they often struggle to understand compositional relationships between objects and attributes, especially in complex settings. Existing solutions have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Evans Xu Han , Linghao Jin , Xiaofeng Liu , Paul Pu Liang

In a surge of text-to-image (T2I) models and their customization methods that generate new images of a user-provided subject, current works focus on alleviating the costs incurred by a lengthy per-subject optimization. These zero-shot…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Yeji Song , Jimyeong Kim , Wonhark Park , Wonsik Shin , Wonjong Rhee , Nojun Kwak

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across diverse applications that demand balancing multiple, often conflicting, objectives -- such as helpfulness, harmlessness, or humor. Many traditional methods for aligning outputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jeremy Carleton , Debajoy Mukherjee , Srinivas Shakkottai , Dileep Kalathil

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

Current text-to-image (T2I) models often fail to account for diverse human experiences, leading to misaligned systems. We advocate for pluralistic alignment, where an AI understands and is steerable towards diverse, and often conflicting,…

In this paper, we introduce LDGen, a novel method for integrating large language models (LLMs) into existing text-to-image diffusion models while minimizing computational demands. Traditional text encoders, such as CLIP and T5, exhibit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Pengzhi Li , Pengfei Yu , Zide Liu , Wei He , Xuhao Pan , Xudong Rao , Tao Wei , Wei Chen

Recent success of text-to-image (T2I) generation and its increasing practical applications, enabled by diffusion models, require urgent consideration of erasing unwanted concepts, e.g., copyrighted, offensive, and unsafe ones, from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuan Wang , Ouxiang Li , Tingting Mu , Yanbin Hao , Kuien Liu , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He