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This paper introduces a novel approach to aesthetic quality improvement in pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models when given a simple prompt. Our method, dubbed Prompt Embedding Optimization (PEO), leverages a pre-trained text-to-image…

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Modern preference alignment methods, such as DPO, rely on divergence regularization to a reference model for training stability-but this creates a fundamental problem we call "reference mismatch." In this paper, we investigate the negative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jiwoo Hong , Sayak Paul , Noah Lee , Kashif Rasul , James Thorne , Jongheon Jeong

Text-to-image generation has evolved beyond single monolithic models to complex multi-component pipelines. These combine fine-tuned generators, adapters, upscaling blocks and even editing steps, leading to significant improvements in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Uri Gadot , Rinon Gal , Yftah Ziser , Gal Chechik , Shie Mannor

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in single-image understanding, yet effective reasoning across multiple images remains challenging. We identify a critical capability gap in existing multi-image alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nitish Shukla , Surgan Jandial , Arun Ross

Contemporary Text-to-Image (T2I) models frequently depend on qualitative human evaluations to assess the consistency between synthesized images and the text prompts. There is a demand for quantitative and automatic evaluation tools, given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Ziyuan Qin , Dongjie Cheng , Haoyu Wang , Huahui Yi , Yuting Shao , Zhiyuan Fan , Kang Li , Qicheng Lao

With the rise of large, publicly-available text-to-image diffusion models, text-guided real image editing has garnered much research attention recently. Existing methods tend to either rely on some form of per-instance or per-task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Adham Elarabawy , Harish Kamath , Samuel Denton

Recent advancements in Virtual Try-On (VTO) have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in generating realistic images and preserving garment details, largely attributed to the robust generative capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zhenchen Wan , Yanwu Xu , Zhaoqing Wang , Feng Liu , Tongliang Liu , Mingming Gong

While text-to-image (T2I) generation models have achieved remarkable progress in recent years, existing evaluation methodologies for vision-language alignment still struggle with the fine-grained semantic matching. Current approaches based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Zijian Zhang , Xuhui Zheng , Xuecheng Wu , Chong Peng , Xuezhi Cao

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

Evaluating the alignment between textual prompts and generated images is critical for ensuring the reliability and usability of text-to-image (T2I) models. However, most existing evaluation methods rely on coarse-grained metrics or static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fulin Shi , Wenyi Xiao , Bin Chen , Liang Din , Leilei Gan

Memory-efficient personalization is critical for adapting text-to-image diffusion models while preserving user privacy and operating within the limited computational resources of edge devices. To this end, we propose a selective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Seokeon Choi , Sunghyun Park , Hyoungwoo Park , Jeongho Kim , Sungrack Yun

During pre-training, the Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models encode factual knowledge into their parameters. These parameterized facts enable realistic image generation, but they may become obsolete over time, thereby misrepresenting the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Hengrui Gu , Kaixiong Zhou , Yili Wang , Ruobing Wang , Xin Wang

Text-to-image (T2I) models can effectively capture the content or style of reference images to perform high-quality customization. A representative technique for this is fine-tuning using low-rank adaptations (LoRA), which enables efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Geonhui Jang , Jin-Hwa Kim , Yong-Hyun Park , Junho Kim , Gayoung Lee , Yonghyun Jeong

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

Text-to-image generation has made significant advancements with the introduction of text-to-image diffusion models. These models typically consist of a language model that interprets user prompts and a vision model that generates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shihao Zhao , Shaozhe Hao , Bojia Zi , Huaizhe Xu , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Recent advancements in Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated impressive success in generating high-quality images with zero-shot generalization capabilities. Yet, current models struggle to closely adhere to prompt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Hyun Kang , Dohae Lee , Myungjin Shin , In-Kwon Lee

Diffusion models and flow matching have demonstrated remarkable success in text-to-image generation. While many existing alignment methods primarily focus on fine-tuning pre-trained generative models to maximize a given reward function,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-03 Yidong Ouyang , Liyan Xie , Hongyuan Zha , Guang Cheng

Deep generative models have shown impressive results in text-to-image synthesis. However, current text-to-image models often generate images that are inadequately aligned with text prompts. We propose a fine-tuning method for aligning such…

We develop a Learning Direct Optimization (LiDO) method for the refinement of a latent variable model that describes input image x. Our goal is to explain a single image x with an interpretable 3D computer graphics model having scene graph…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Lukasz Romaszko , Christopher K. I. Williams , John Winn

Traditional preference tuning methods for LLMs/Visual Generative Models often rely solely on reward model labeling, which can be opaque, offer limited insights into the rationale behind preferences, and are prone to issues such as reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hanyang Zhao , Haoxian Chen , Yucheng Guo , Genta Indra Winata , Tingting Ou , Ziyu Huang , David D. Yao , Wenpin Tang