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We present a discriminative multimodal reward model that scores all candidate responses in a single forward pass. Conventional discriminative reward models evaluate each response independently, requiring multiple forward passes, one for…

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Recent advances in video reward models and post-training strategies have improved text-to-video (T2V) generation. While these models typically assess visual quality, motion quality, and text alignment, they often overlook key structural…

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Movie posters are vital for captivating audiences, conveying themes, and driving market competition in the film industry. While traditional designs are laborious, intelligent generation technology offers efficiency gains and design…

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Recent advances in multi-modal generative models have driven substantial improvements in image editing. However, current generative models still struggle with handling diverse and complex image editing tasks that require implicit reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Feng Han , Yibin Wang , Chenglin Li , Zheming Liang , Dianyi Wang , Yang Jiao , Zhipeng Wei , Chao Gong , Cheng Jin , Jingjing Chen , Jiaqi Wang

Video generation models have achieved remarkable progress, particularly excelling in realistic scenarios; however, their performance degrades notably in imaginative scenarios. These prompts often involve rarely co-occurring concepts with…

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Preference learning from human feedback has the ability to align generative models with the needs of end-users. Human feedback is costly and time-consuming to obtain, which creates demand for data-efficient query selection methods. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Guy Schacht , Ziyad Sheebaelhamd , Riccardo De Santi , Mojmír Mutný , Andreas Krause

Poster designing can benefit from synchronous feedback from target audiences. However, gathering audiences with diverse perspectives and reconciling them on design edits can be challenging. Recent generative AI models present opportunities…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Donghoon Shin , Daniel Lee , Gary Hsieh , Gromit Yeuk-Yin Chan

Aligning Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires reliable reward models, yet existing single-step evaluators can suffer from lazy judging, exploiting language priors over fine-grained visual verification. While rubric-based…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Rui Liu , Dian Yu , Zhenwen Liang , Yucheng Shi , Tong Zheng , Runpeng Dai , Haitao Mi , Pratap Tokekar , Leoweiliang

This study presents a generative optimization framework that builds on a fine-tuned diffusion model and reward-directed sampling to generate high-performance engineering designs. The framework adopts a parametric representation of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Hadi Keramati , Patrick Kirchen , Mohammed Hannan , Rajeev K. Jaiman

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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Continuous emotional image generation (C-EICG) is emerging rapidly due to its ability to produce images aligned with both user descriptions and continuous emotional values. However, existing approaches lack emotional feedback from generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jingyang Jia , Kai Shu , Gang Yang , Long Xing , Xun Chen , Aiping Liu

High-quality training triplets (instruction, original image, edited image) are essential for instruction-based image editing. Predominant training datasets (e.g., InsPix2Pix) are created using text-to-image generative models (e.g., Stable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Xin Gu , Ming Li , Libo Zhang , Fan Chen , Longyin Wen , Tiejian Luo , Sijie Zhu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced from perception tasks to complex multi-step reasoning, yet reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) often leads to spurious reasoning since only the final-answer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mengzhao Jia , Zhihan Zhang , Ignacio Cases , Zheyuan Liu , Meng Jiang , Peng Qi

Video generation has witnessed significant advancements, yet evaluating these models remains a challenge. A comprehensive evaluation benchmark for video generation is indispensable for two reasons: 1) Existing metrics do not fully align…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ziqi Huang , Yinan He , Jiashuo Yu , Fan Zhang , Chenyang Si , Yuming Jiang , Yuanhan Zhang , Tianxing Wu , Qingyang Jin , Nattapol Chanpaisit , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Limin Wang , Dahua Lin , Yu Qiao , Ziwei Liu

While large language models have proven effective in a huge range of downstream applications, they often generate text that is problematic or lacks a desired attribute. In this paper, we introduce Reward-Augmented Decoding (RAD), a text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Haikang Deng , Colin Raffel

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Meng Cao , Lei Shu , Lei Yu , Yun Zhu , Nevan Wichers , Yinxiao Liu , Lei Meng

Text-to-motion generation, which synthesizes 3D human motions from text inputs, holds immense potential for applications in gaming, film, and robotics. Recently, diffusion-based methods have been shown to generate more diversity and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Wanjiang Weng , Xiaofeng Tan , Junbo Wang , Guo-Sen Xie , Pan Zhou , Hongsong Wang

Reward finetuning has emerged as a promising approach to aligning foundation models with downstream objectives. Remarkable success has been achieved in the language domain by using reinforcement learning (RL) to maximize rewards that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Fei Deng , Qifei Wang , Wei Wei , Matthias Grundmann , Tingbo Hou

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing image editing and text-to-image (T2I) generation. However, current reward models, which act as critics during RL, often suffer from hallucinations and assign…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Xiangyu Zhao , Peiyuan Zhang , Junming Lin , Tianhao Liang , Yuchen Duan , Shengyuan Ding , Changyao Tian , Yuhang Zang , Junchi Yan , Xue Yang

Modern text-to-image (T2I) models generate high-fidelity visuals but remain indifferent to individual user preferences. While existing reward models optimize for "average" human appeal, they fail to capture the inherent subjectivity of…

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