arXiv Machine Learning

Can We Predict The Human Preference For Text-to-Image Content Prior To Generation And Is It Even Useful To Do So?

arXiv:2606. 05478v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Models (DM) have revolutionized text-driven generation by enabling the synthesis of high-quality, photorealistic visual content from user prompts.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Abra: Scaling Diffusion Image Training

The paper introduces Abra, a family of flow‑matching transformers used to systematically study scaling laws for text‑to‑image diffusion models across three orders of magnitude in compute. It finds that diffusion models scale predictably like language models but need far more data, with compute optimality occurring at roughly 200 image tokens per parameter—ten times the optimal ratio for large language models. The study also shows that diffusion models are robust to overtraining, that more data is preferable to larger models, and that scaling predictability extends to generative quality, optimal CFG settings, representation quality, and training curve shapes.

By Kyle Chickering, Wei-An Lin, Swayam Bhanded, Dan Saunders, Akshat Tripathi, Jiaming Song, Shyamal Buch, Xinchen Yan
arXiv AI
Sep 16

Efficient Text-to-Image Generation: An Adaptive Step Schedule Controller for Diffusion Models

The paper introduces an adaptive step schedule controller for text‑to‑image diffusion models, allowing the number of denoising steps to vary based on the complexity of the input prompt. By mixing step schedules of different sizes and monitoring error discrepancies at each timestep, the method switches schedules to maintain image quality while reducing inference time. Experiments on COCO and DiffusionDB demonstrate that this approach achieves faster generation without sacrificing visual fidelity.

By Kuluhan Binici, Cihan Acar, Shivam Aggarwal, Siying Liu, Tulika Mitra
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 14

Unified Text-Image Generation with Weakness-Targeted Post-Training

The paper introduces a post‑training approach that enables a single inference process to transition from text reasoning to image synthesis, eliminating the need for explicit modality switching. Using the 14B BAGEL model, the authors demonstrate that targeted post‑training data and reward‑weighted training improve multimodal image generation across four independent T2I benchmarks. The study highlights the benefits of joint text‑image generation and strategic data selection for enhancing T2I performance.

By Jiahui Chen, Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Xiaochuang Han, Yushi Hu, Emily Dinan, Amita Kamath, Michal Drozdzal, Reyhane Askari-Hemmat, Luke Zettlemoyer, Marjan Ghazvininejad
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 7

Step Back to Move Forward: Reflection-Aware Preference Optimization for Visual Generation

The paper introduces Reflection-Aware GRPO (RA‑GRPO), a reinforcement‑learning framework that aligns diffusion generative models with human preferences. It uses Diffusion Reflection to correct intermediate sampling paths by reversing the diffusion process, and Counterfactual Path Synthesis to embed these corrected trajectories into the policy, avoiding extra inference cost. Experiments on text‑to‑image and text‑to‑video models show RA‑GRPO outperforms existing methods, reducing reward hacking and improving generalization while remaining architecture‑agnostic.

By Junlong Wu, Jiuzhou Lin, Jia Sun, Boheng Zhang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Houde Liu, Qianqian Gan, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao