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In text-to-image generation, different initial noises induce distinct denoising paths with a pretrained Stable Diffusion (SD) model. While this pattern could output diverse images, some of them may fail to align well with the prompt.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yunze Tong , Didi Zhu , Zijing Hu , Jinluan Yang , Ziyu Zhao

This paper, for the first time, explores text-to-image diffusion models for Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval (ZS-SBIR). We highlight a pivotal discovery: the capacity of text-to-image diffusion models to seamlessly bridge the gap…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Subhadeep Koley , Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Tao Xiang , Yi-Zhe Song

In the last two years, text-to-image diffusion models have become extremely popular. As their quality and usage increase, a major concern has been the need for better output control. In addition to prompt engineering, one effective method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Clément Bonnet , Ariel N. Lee , Franck Wertel , Antoine Tamano , Tanguy Cizain , Pablo Ducru

We present a method to control a text-to-image generative model to produce training data useful for supervised learning. Unlike previous works that employ an open-loop approach and pre-define prompts to generate new data using either a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Teresa Yeo , Andrei Atanov , Harold Benoit , Aleksandr Alekseev , Ruchira Ray , Pooya Esmaeil Akhoondi , Amir Zamir

Text-to-image models are known to struggle with generating images that perfectly align with textual prompts. Several previous studies have focused on evaluating image-text alignment in text-to-image generation. However, these evaluations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Huixuan Zhang , Xiaojun Wan

Diffusion models have emerged as the leading approach for text-to-image generation. However, their iterative sampling process, which gradually morphs random noise into coherent images, introduces significant latency that limits their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Peijie Qiu , Hariharan Ramshankar , Arnau Ramisa , René Vidal , Amit Kumar K C , Vamsi Salaka , Rahul Bhagat

In this paper, we address the limitations of existing text-to-image diffusion models in generating demographically fair results when given human-related descriptions. These models often struggle to disentangle the target language context…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Jia Li , Lijie Hu , Jingfeng Zhang , Tianhang Zheng , Hua Zhang , Di Wang

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for 3D medical image generation, yet bridging the gap between standard training objectives and clinical relevance remains a challenge. This paper presents a method to enhance 3D diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yueying Tian , Xudong Han , Meng Zhou , Rodrigo Aviles-Espinosa , Rupert Young , Philip Birch

We present a novel algorithm for text-driven image-to-image translation based on a pretrained text-to-image diffusion model. Our method aims to generate a target image by selectively editing the regions of interest in a source image,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Hyunsoo Lee , Minsoo Kang , Bohyung Han

Despite recent significant strides achieved by diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models, current systems are still less capable of ensuring decent compositional generation aligned with text prompts, particularly for the multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Zhipeng Bao , Yijun Li , Krishna Kumar Singh , Yu-Xiong Wang , Martial Hebert

Text-to-image generation models suffer from alignment problems, where generated images fail to accurately capture the objects and relations in the text prompt. Prior work has focused on improving alignment by refining the diffusion process,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Guy Kaplan , Michael Toker , Yuval Reif , Yonatan Belinkov , Roy Schwartz

Diffusion models excel at capturing complex data distributions, such as those of natural images and proteins. While diffusion models are trained to represent the distribution in the training dataset, we often are more concerned with other…

This work explores text-to-image retrieval for queries that specify or describe a semantic category. While vision-and-language models (VLMs) like CLIP offer a straightforward open-vocabulary solution, they map text and images to distant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Faizan Farooq Khan , Vladan Stojnić , Zakaria Laskar , Mohamed Elhoseiny , Giorgos Tolias

Image-conditioned Video diffusion models achieve impressive visual realism but often suffer from weakened motion fidelity, e.g., reduced motion dynamics or degraded long-term temporal coherence, especially after fine-tuning. We study the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xi Ye , Wenjia Yang , Yangyang Xu , Xiaoyang Liu , Duo Su , Mengfei Xia , Jun Zhu

Text-to-video diffusion models have enabled open-ended video synthesis, but often struggle with generating the correct number of objects specified in a prompt. We introduce NUMINA , a training-free identify-then-guide framework for improved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhengyang Sun , Yu Chen , Xin Zhou , Xiaofan Li , Xiwu Chen , Dingkang Liang , Xiang Bai

Recent advancements in diffusion and flow-matching models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in high-fidelity image synthesis. A prominent line of research involves reward-guided guidance, which steers the generation process during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jinho Chang , Jaemin Kim , Jong Chul Ye

Text-to-image models produce images that align well with natural language prompts, but compositional generation has long been a central challenge. Models often struggle to satisfy multiple concepts within a single prompt, frequently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Jungmyung Wi , Hyunsoo Kim , Donghyun Kim

Reward fine-tuning has become a common approach for aligning pretrained diffusion and flow models with human preferences in text-to-image generation. Among reward-gradient-based methods, Adjoint Matching (AM) provides a principled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Jeongwoo Shin , Dongsoo Shin , Yuchen Zhu , Wei Guo , Yongxin Chen , Joonseok Lee , Jaewoong Choi , Jaemoo Choi

Recent text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable visual fidelity but often struggle with semantic alignment to complex prompts. We introduce CritiFusion, a novel inference-time framework that integrates a multimodal semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 ZhenQi Chen , TsaiChing Ni , YuanFu Yang

3D content creation from text prompts has shown remarkable success recently. However, current text-to-3D methods often generate 3D results that do not align well with human preferences. In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Junliang Ye , Fangfu Liu , Qixiu Li , Zhengyi Wang , Yikai Wang , Xinzhou Wang , Yueqi Duan , Jun Zhu