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Recent advancements in multimodal reward models (RMs) have significantly propelled the development of visual generation. Existing frameworks typically adopt Bradley-Terry-style preference modeling or leverage generative VLMs as judges, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yibin Wang , Yuhang Zang , Feng Han , Jiazi Bu , Yujie Zhou , Cheng Jin , Jiaqi Wang

Vision-language reward modeling faces a dilemma: generative approaches are interpretable but slow, while discriminative ones are efficient but act as opaque "black boxes." To bridge this gap, we propose VL-MDR (Vision-Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Qiyuan Chen , Hongsen Huang , Jiahe Chen , Qian Shao , Jintai Chen , Hongxia Xu , Renjie Hua , Chuan Ren , Jian Wu

Incorporating human feedback has been shown to be crucial to align text generated by large language models to human preferences. We hypothesize that state-of-the-art instructional image editing models, where outputs are generated based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Shu Zhang , Xinyi Yang , Yihao Feng , Can Qin , Chia-Chih Chen , Ning Yu , Zeyuan Chen , Huan Wang , Silvio Savarese , Stefano Ermon , Caiming Xiong , Ran Xu

Current metrics for text-to-image models typically rely on statistical metrics which inadequately represent the real preference of humans. Although recent work attempts to learn these preferences via human annotated images, they reduce the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sixian Zhang , Bohan Wang , Junqiang Wu , Yan Li , Tingting Gao , Di Zhang , Zhongyuan Wang

Multimodal reward models have advanced substantially in text and image domains, yet progress in video understanding reward modeling remains severely limited by the lack of robust evaluation benchmarks and high-quality preference data. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yuancheng Wei , Linli Yao , Lei Li , Haojie Zhang , Hao Zhou , Fandong Meng , Xu Sun

Text-to-video (T2V) generation has achieved remarkable progress in producing high-quality videos aligned with textual prompts. However, aligning synthesized videos with nuanced human preference remains challenging due to the subjective and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Qiushi Yang , Yingjie Chen , Yuan Yao , Yifang Men , Huaizhuo Liu , Miaomiao Cui

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

Human feedback plays a critical role in learning and refining reward models for text-to-image generation, but the optimal form the feedback should take for learning an accurate reward function has not been conclusively established. This…

In this paper, we introduce OneReward, a unified reinforcement learning framework that enhances the model's generative capabilities across multiple tasks under different evaluation criteria using only \textit{One Reward} model. By employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yuan Gong , Xionghui Wang , Jie Wu , Shiyin Wang , Yitong Wang , Xinglong Wu

By combining natural language understanding, generation capabilities, and breadth of knowledge of large language models with image perception, recent large vision language models (LVLMs) have shown unprecedented visual reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Siming Yan , Min Bai , Weifeng Chen , Xiong Zhou , Qixing Huang , Li Erran Li

Human preference alignment presents a critical yet underexplored challenge for diffusion models in text-to-3D generation. Existing solutions typically require task-specific fine-tuning, posing significant hurdles in data-scarce 3D domains.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jiaqi Leng , Shuyuan Tu , Haidong Cao , Sicheng Xie , Daoguo Dong , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

As Text-to-Video (T2V) generation models continue to evolve, the complexity of video evaluation necessitates a fine-grained assessment across various axes. To address this, recent works have focused on developing Multidimensional Video…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Muyao Wang , Zeke Xie , Hideki Nakayama

Learning human preferences in language models remains fundamentally challenging, as reward modeling relies on subtle, subjective comparisons or shades of gray rather than clear-cut labels. This study investigates the limits of current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Simona-Vasilica Oprea , Adela Bâra

Visual Quality Assessment (QA) seeks to predict human perceptual judgments of visual fidelity. While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) show promise in reasoning about image and video quality, existing approaches mainly rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Zehui Feng , Tian Qiu , Tong Wu , Junxuan Li , Huayuan Xu , Ting Han

Diffusion models have emerged as the de facto paradigm for video generation. However, their reliance on web-scale data of varied quality often yields results that are visually unappealing and misaligned with the textual prompts. To tackle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Hangjie Yuan , Shiwei Zhang , Xiang Wang , Yujie Wei , Tao Feng , Yining Pan , Yingya Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Samuel Albanie , Dong Ni

Understanding human preferences is crucial for improving foundation models and building personalized AI systems. However, preferences are inherently diverse and complex, making it difficult for traditional reward models to capture their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Feng Luo , Rui Yang , Hao Sun , Chunyuan Deng , Jiarui Yao , Jingyan Shen , Huan Zhang , Hanjie Chen

Video diffusion models (VDMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in text-to-video (T2V) generation. Despite their success, VDMs still suffer from degraded image quality and flickering artifacts. To address these issues, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Jiacheng Zhang , Jie Wu , Weifeng Chen , Yatai Ji , Xuefeng Xiao , Weilin Huang , Kai Han

Preference-conditioned image generation seeks to adapt generative models to individual users, producing outputs that reflect personal aesthetic choices beyond the given textual prompt. Despite recent progress, existing approaches either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Wenyi Mo , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Ligong Han , Ying Ba , Dimitris N. Metaxas

Measuring alignment between language and vision is a fundamental challenge, especially as multimodal data becomes increasingly detailed and complex. Existing methods often rely on collecting human or AI preferences, which can be costly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Hyojin Bahng , Caroline Chan , Fredo Durand , Phillip Isola

Most reward models for visual generation reduce rich human judgments to a single unexplained score, discarding the reasoning that underlies preference. We show that teaching reward models to produce explicit, multi-dimensional critiques…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Haozhe Wang , Cong Wei , Weiming Ren , Jiaming Liu , Fangzhen Lin , Wenhu Chen