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We present a new dataset with the goal of advancing image style transfer - the task of rendering one image in the style of another image. The dataset covers various content and style images of different size and contains 10.000 stylizations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Victor Kitov , Valentin Abramov , Mikhail Akhtyrchenko

Preference tuning is a crucial process for aligning deep generative models with human preferences. This survey offers a thorough overview of recent advancements in preference tuning and the integration of human feedback. The paper is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Genta Indra Winata , Hanyang Zhao , Anirban Das , Wenpin Tang , David D. Yao , Shi-Xiong Zhang , Sambit Sahu

Evaluating instruction-guided image edits requires rewards that reflect subtle human preferences, yet current reward models typically depend on large-scale preference annotation and additional model training. This creates a data-efficiency…

Reward models play an essential role in training vision-language models (VLMs) by assessing output quality to enable aligning with human preferences. Despite their importance, the research community lacks comprehensive open benchmarks for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Michihiro Yasunaga , Luke Zettlemoyer , Marjan Ghazvininejad

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and intents critically involves the use of human or AI feedback. While dense feedback annotations are expensive to acquire and integrate, sparse feedback presents a structural design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Hritik Bansal , John Dang , Aditya Grover

Reward engineering is one of the key challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Preference-based RL effectively addresses this issue by learning from human feedback. However, it is both time-consuming and expensive to collect human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Runze Liu , Chenjia Bai , Jiafei Lyu , Shengjie Sun , Yali Du , Xiu Li

Modeling human aesthetic judgments in visual art presents significant challenges due to individual preference variability and the high cost of obtaining labeled data. To reduce cost of acquiring such labels, we propose to apply a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Manoj Reddy Bethi , Sai Rupa Jhade , Pravallika Yaganti , Monoshiz Mahbub Khan , Zhe Yu

Evaluating text-to-image generation models requires alignment with human perception, yet existing human-centric metrics are constrained by limited data coverage, suboptimal feature extraction, and inefficient loss functions. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Yuhang Ma , Yunhao Shui , Xiaoshi Wu , Keqiang Sun , Hongsheng Li

Large language models (LLMs) often exhibit tendencies that diverge from human preferences, such as favoring certain writing styles or producing overly verbose outputs. While crucial for improvement, identifying the factors driving these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Juhyun Oh , Eunsu Kim , Jiseon Kim , Wenda Xu , Inha Cha , William Yang Wang , Alice Oh

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show immense promise for achieving truly human-like interactions, progress is hindered by the lack of fine-grained evaluation frameworks for human-centered scenarios, encompassing both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zheng Qin , Ruobing Zheng , Yabing Wang , Tianqi Li , Yi Yuan , Jingdong Chen , Le Wang

Human feedback plays a pivotal role in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, such feedback is often noisy or inconsistent, which can degrade the quality of reward models and hinder alignment. While various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Samuel Yeh , Sharon Li

Learning from preference feedback is a common practice for aligning large language models~(LLMs) with human value. Conventionally, preference data is learned and encoded into a scalar reward model that connects a value head with an LLM to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ziyi Ye , Xiangsheng Li , Qiuchi Li , Qingyao Ai , Yujia Zhou , Wei Shen , Dong Yan , Yiqun Liu

Reward models are critical for reinforcement learning from human feedback, as they determine the alignment quality and reliability of generative models. For complex tasks such as image editing, reward models are required to capture global…

Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth of deep generative models, with text-to-image models gaining significant attention from the public. However, existing models often generate images that do not align well with human preferences,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Xiaoshi Wu , Keqiang Sun , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Hongsheng Li

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

A well-executed graphic design typically achieves harmony in two levels, from the fine-grained design elements (color, font and layout) to the overall design. This complexity makes the comprehension of graphic design challenging, for it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Jieru Lin , Danqing Huang , Tiejun Zhao , Dechen Zhan , Chin-Yew Lin

Graphic design often involves exploring different stylistic directions, which can be time-consuming for non-experts. We address this problem of stylistically improving designs based on natural language instructions. While VLMs have shown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Huaxiaoyue Wang , Sunav Choudhary , Franck Dernoncourt , Yu Shen , Stefano Petrangeli

The emergence of generative models enables the creation of texts and images tailored to users' preferences. Existing personalized generative models have two critical limitations: lacking a dedicated paradigm for accurate preference…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Yuting Zhang , Ying Sun , Dazhong Shen , Ziwei Xie , Feng Liu , Changwang Zhang , Xiang Liu , Jun Wang , Hui Xiong

User preference prediction requires a comprehensive and accurate understanding of individual tastes. This includes both surface-level attributes, such as color and style, and deeper content-related aspects, such as themes and composition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Wenyi Mo , Ying Ba , Tianyu Zhang , Yalong Bai , Biye Li

Reward models are a key component of large language model alignment, serving as proxies for human preferences during training. However, existing evaluations focus primarily on broad instruction-following benchmarks, providing limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Gayane Ghazaryan , Esra Dönmez