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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…

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Recent advancements in human video generation and animation tasks, driven by diffusion models, have achieved significant progress. However, expressive and realistic human animation remains challenging due to the trade-off between motion…

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Previous text-to-image diffusion models typically employ supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to enhance pre-trained base models. However, this approach primarily minimizes the loss of mean squared error (MSE) at the pixel level, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Liang Peng , Boxi Wu , Haoran Cheng , Yibo Zhao , Xiaofei He

Recent direct preference alignment algorithms (DPA), such as DPO, have shown great promise in aligning large language models to human preferences. While this has motivated the development of many new variants of the original DPO loss,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Kyle Richardson , Vivek Srikumar , Ashish Sabharwal

Offline preference optimization offers a simpler and more stable alternative to RLHF for aligning language models. However, their effectiveness is critically dependent on ranking accuracy, a metric where further gains are highly impactful.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ruibo Deng , Duanyu Feng , Wenqiang Lei

Generation of high-quality person images is challenging, due to the sophisticated entanglements among image factors, e.g., appearance, pose, foreground, background, local details, global structures, etc. In this paper, we present a novel…

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable progress in single-image understanding, yet effective reasoning across multiple images remains challenging. We identify a critical capability gap in existing multi-image alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nitish Shukla , Surgan Jandial , Arun Ross

We present Anchored Direct Preference Optimization (ADPO), a policy alignment method derived from first principles of KL-regularized reinforcement learning. Unlike standard approaches that treat the reference policy merely as a regularizer,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Wang Zixian

DPO has become a widely adopted alternative to RLHF for aligning LLMs with human preferences, eliminating the need for a separate reward model or RL loop. Recent theoretical analysis uncovers an asymmetric gradient behavior in DPO: the loss…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Shaolong Chen , Madalina Ciobanu , Qingqing Mao , Ritankar Das

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values and intentions is crucial for their utility, honesty, and safety. Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is a popular approach to achieve this alignment, but it faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Junkang Wu , Xue Wang , Zhengyi Yang , Jiancan Wu , Jinyang Gao , Bolin Ding , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

Text-to-image diffusion models deliver high-quality images, yet aligning them with human preferences remains challenging. We revisit diffusion-based Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) for these models and identify a critical pathology:…

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This paper addresses the problem of preference learning, which aims to align robot behaviors through learning user specific preferences (e.g. "good pull-over location") from visual demonstrations. Despite its similarity to learning factual…

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Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as an effective approach for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, its performance is highly dependent on the quality of the underlying human preference data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Zixuan Huang , Yikun Ban , Lean Fu , Xiaojie Li , Zhongxiang Dai , Jianxin Li , Deqing Wang

Multi-preference optimization enriches language-model alignment beyond pairwise preferences by contrasting entire sets of helpful and undesired responses, thereby enabling richer training signals for large language models. During self-play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Taneesh Gupta , Rahul Madhavan , Xuchao Zhang , Chetan Bansal , Saravan Rajmohan

Preference optimization is a critical post-training technique used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, typically by fine-tuning on ranked response pairs. While methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Rhitabrat Pokharel , Yufei Tao , Ameeta Agrawal

In this paper, we introduce \emph{refined Direct Preference Optimization} (rDPO), a method for improving the behavioral alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) without the need for human-annotated data. The method involves creating…

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Radiography Report Generation (RRG) has gained significant attention in medical image analysis as a promising tool for alleviating the growing workload of radiologists. However, despite numerous advancements, existing methods have yet to…

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Recent advancements in video-audio joint generation have achieved remarkable success in semantic correspondence. However, achieving precise temporal synchronization, which requires fine-grained alignment between audio events and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Xin Cheng , Xihua Wang , Ying Ba , Yuyue Wang , Kaisi Guan , Yinbo Wang , Wenpu Li , Ruihua Song

Recent advancements in human preference optimization, initially developed for Language Models (LMs), have shown promise for text-to-image Diffusion Models, enhancing prompt alignment, visual appeal, and user preference. Unlike LMs,…

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