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This paper investigates image inpainting with preference alignment. Instead of introducing a novel method, we go back to basics and revisit fundamental problems in achieving such alignment. We leverage the prominent direct preference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yutao Shen , Junkun Yuan , Toru Aonishi , Hideki Nakayama , Yue Ma

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have been used recently to align diffusion models with downstream objectives such as aesthetic quality and text-image consistency by fine-tuning them to maximize a single reward function under a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Min Cheng , Fatemeh Doudi , Dileep Kalathil , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Panganamala R. Kumar

Diffusion models have become a central paradigm for image and multimodal generation, yet their deployment raises persistent questions about alignment, safety, preference satisfaction, and robustness to misuse. This survey reviews recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Preeti Lamba , Kiran Ravish , Ankita Kushwaha , Pawan Kumar

Recent advances in diffusion models have led to impressive image generation capabilities, but aligning these models with human preferences remains challenging. Reward-based fine-tuning using models trained on human feedback improves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Dmitrii Sorokin , Maksim Nakhodnov , Andrey Kuznetsov , Aibek Alanov

Video inpainting is the task of filling a region in a video in a visually convincing manner. It is very challenging due to the high dimensionality of the data and the temporal consistency required for obtaining convincing results. Recently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Tiancheng Li , Jinxiu Liu , Huajun Chen , Qi Liu

Diffusion models are now the undisputed state-of-the-art for image generation and image restoration. However, they require large amounts of computational power for training and inference. In this paper, we propose lightweight diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Nicolas Cherel , Andrés Almansa , Yann Gousseau , Alasdair Newson

We present a comprehensive solution to learn and improve text-to-image models from human preference feedback. To begin with, we build ImageReward -- the first general-purpose text-to-image human preference reward model -- to effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiazheng Xu , Xiao Liu , Yuchen Wu , Yuxuan Tong , Qinkai Li , Ming Ding , Jie Tang , Yuxiao Dong

Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in 3D content generation. However, corresponding evaluation methods struggle to keep pace. Automatic approaches have proven challenging to align with human preferences, and the mixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Weitao Wang , Haoran Xu , Yuxiao Yang , Zhifang Liu , Jun Meng , Haoqian Wang

Common image editing tasks typically adopt powerful generative diffusion models as the leading paradigm for real-world content editing. Meanwhile, although reinforcement learning (RL) methods such as Diffusion-DPO and Flow-GRPO have further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Fan Li , Chonghuinan Wang , Lina Lei , Yuping Qiu , Jiaqi Xu , Jiaxiu Jiang , Xinran Qin , Zhikai Chen , Fenglong Song , Zhixin Wang , Renjing Pei , Wangmeng Zuo

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

Neural reconstruction approaches are rapidly emerging as the preferred representation for 3D scenes, but their limited editability is still posing a challenge. In this work, we propose an approach for 3D scene inpainting -- the task of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Ashkan Mirzaei , Riccardo De Lutio , Seung Wook Kim , David Acuna , Jonathan Kelly , Sanja Fidler , Igor Gilitschenski , Zan Gojcic

Well-designed prompts can guide text-to-image models to generate amazing images. However, the performant prompts are often model-specific and misaligned with user input. Instead of laborious human engineering, we propose prompt adaptation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yaru Hao , Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Furu Wei

Inpainting, the process of filling missing or corrupted image parts, has broad applications in medical imaging. However, generating anatomically accurate synthetic polyp images for clinical AI is a largely underexplored problem. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Duy-Bao Bui , Hoang-Khang Nguyen , Thao Thi Phuong Dao , Kim Anh Phung , Tam V. Nguyen , Justin Zhan , Minh-Triet Tran , Trung-Nghia Le

RLHF techniques like DPO can significantly improve the generation quality of text-to-image diffusion models. However, these methods optimize for a single reward that aligns model generation with population-level preferences, neglecting the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Meihua Dang , Anikait Singh , Linqi Zhou , Stefano Ermon , Jiaming Song

The integration of preference alignment with diffusion models (DMs) has emerged as a transformative approach to enhance image generation and editing capabilities. Although integrating diffusion models with preference alignment strategies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Sihao Wu , Xiaonan Si , Chi Xing , Jianhong Wang , Gaojie Jin , Guangliang Cheng , Lijun Zhang , Xiaowei Huang

Text-to-image diffusion models are a class of deep generative models that have demonstrated an impressive capacity for high-quality image generation. However, these models are susceptible to implicit biases that arise from web-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Yinan Zhang , Eric Tzeng , Yilun Du , Dmitry Kislyuk

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

Image inpainting is the task of reconstructing missing or damaged parts of an image in a way that seamlessly blends with the surrounding content. With the advent of advanced generative models, especially diffusion models and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xingzhong Hou , Jie Wu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Guanglu Song , Yunpeng Liu , Yu Liu , Haihang You

Preference optimization has emerged as an efficient alternative to online reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for aligning text-to-image diffusion models. However, existing methods largely reduce supervision to binary pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Austin Wang , Jiaqi Han , Stefano Ermon , Yisong Yue
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