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Contemporary large-scale visual language models (VLMs) exhibit strong representation capacities, making them ubiquitous for enhancing image and text understanding tasks. They are often trained in a contrastive manner on a large and diverse…

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Process Reward Models (PRMs) have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by guiding their step-by-step reasoning toward a final answer. However, existing PRMs either treat each…

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While modern diffusion models excel at generating high-quality and diverse images, they still struggle with high-fidelity compositional and multimodal control, particularly when users simultaneously specify text prompts, subject references,…

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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

Fine-tuning text-to-image models with reward functions trained on human feedback data has proven effective for aligning model behavior with human intent. However, excessive optimization with such reward models, which serve as mere proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Kyuyoung Kim , Jongheon Jeong , Minyong An , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Krishnamurthy Dvijotham , Jinwoo Shin , Kimin Lee

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on implicit and explicit visual grounding and related tasks. However, such abilities are generally tested on simple, single-object phrases. We find that grounding performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Jiayun Luo , Mir Rayat Imtiaz Hossain , Pritam Sarkar , Boyang Li , Leonid Sigal

With the continued advancement of text-to-image (T2I) generation, producing high-quality images is becoming increasingly attainable; consequently, user demands are shifting toward images that better satisfy their specific requirements. As…

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Customization generation techniques have significantly advanced the synthesis of specific concepts across varied contexts. Multi-concept customization emerges as the challenging task within this domain. Existing approaches often rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yang Yang , Wen Wang , Liang Peng , Chaotian Song , Yao Chen , Hengjia Li , Xiaolong Yang , Qinglin Lu , Deng Cai , Boxi Wu , Wei Liu

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…

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In creativity support and computational co-creativity contexts, the task of discovering appropriate prompts for use with text-to-image generative models remains difficult. In many cases the creator wishes to evoke a certain impression with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Francisco Ibarrola , Rohan Lulham , Kazjon Grace

Designing reward functions for efficiently guiding reinforcement learning (RL) agents toward specific behaviors is a complex task. This is challenging since it requires the identification of reward structures that are not sparse and that…

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Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation via reinforcement learning (RL) have benefited from reward models that assess semantic alignment and visual quality. However, most existing reward models pay limited attention to…

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Recently, there has been a great deal of research in emergent communication on artificial agents interacting in simulated environments. Recent studies have revealed that, in general, emergent languages do not follow the compositionality…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Rishi Hazra , Sonu Dixit , Sayambhu Sen

Recent text-to-image (T2I) models generate semantically coherent images from textual prompts, yet evaluating how well they align with individual user preferences remains an open challenge. Conventional evaluation methods, general reward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Jeongeun Lee , Ryang Heo , Dongha Lee

Reinforcement learning (RL) can align language models with non-differentiable reward signals, such as human preferences. However, a major challenge arises from the sparsity of these reward signals - typically, there is only a single reward…

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Despite significant advancements in text-to-image models for generating high-quality images, these methods still struggle to ensure the controllability of text prompts over images in the context of complex text prompts, especially when it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhenyu Wang , Enze Xie , Aoxue Li , Zhongdao Wang , Xihui Liu , Zhenguo Li

Recent advancements in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-fidelity images. However, these models often struggle to faithfully render complex user prompts, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Linqing Wang , Ximing Xing , Yiji Cheng , Zhiyuan Zhao , Donghao Li , Tiankai Hang , Jiale Tao , Qixun Wang , Ruihuang Li , Comi Chen , Xin Li , Mingrui Wu , Xinchi Deng , Shuyang Gu , Chunyu Wang , Qinglin Lu

Visual generation models have made remarkable progress in creating realistic images from text prompts, yet struggle with complex prompts that specify multiple objects with precise spatial relationships and attributes. Effective handling of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chengqi Duan , Rongyao Fang , Yuqing Wang , Kun Wang , Linjiang Huang , Xingyu Zeng , Hongsheng Li , Xihui Liu

Despite recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) models, they often fail to faithfully render all elements of complex prompts, frequently omitting or misrepresenting specific objects and attributes. Test-time optimization has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Mohammad Hossein Sameti , Amir M. Mansourian , Arash Marioriyad , Soheil Fadaee Oshyani , Mohammad Hossein Rohban , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah

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,…

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