arXiv Computer Vision

Blame Errant Words, Not the Canvas: Defect-Aware Spatial Credit Assignment for Visual Text Generation

The paper introduces TextDART, a defect-aware reward model that evaluates individual text regions for semantic correctness and glyph quality, and SCANNER, a method that uses these regional judgments to provide spatially differentiated policy feedback. This approach addresses limitations of previous reinforcement learning methods that overlook glyph defects and obscure regional quality. Experiments on existing benchmarks and the new PolyText-Bench show state‑of‑the‑art performance in text accuracy and glyph fidelity.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 21

TextRefine: Improving Textual Fidelity, Spatial Placement, and Glyph Rendering for Text Editing in Product Posters

arXiv:2608. 19637v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text editing in product posters entails inserting new text or replacing existing text while preserving product appearance, background content, and global composition.

By Honglie Wang, Jia Sun, Zijun Li, Junlong Wu, Pengcheng Wei, Jiyuan Wang, Yongrui Heng, Boheng Zhang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Qianqian Gan, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Yan-Ming Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 20

TextRefine: Improving Textual Fidelity, Spatial Placement, and Glyph Rendering for Text Editing in Product Posters

Text editing in product posters entails inserting new text or replacing existing text while preserving product appearance, background content, and global composition. Despite recent progress in instruction-based image editing, general-purpose models remain unreliable in this setting: they often omit or incorrectly render the target text, place it over salient products or pre-existing content, and produce structurally distorted or visually inconsistent glyphs.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 11

TextAlign: Preference Alignment for Text Rendering with Hierarchical Rewards

TextAlign is a post‑training preference‑alignment framework that improves text rendering in large text‑to‑image generative models without changing the generator architecture. It uses a hierarchical vision‑language model to reward global, word, and glyph‑level accuracy, converting binary defect judgments into a scalar preference signal that can be optimized with GRPO or DPO. Experiments on FLUX.1‑dev and Z‑Image‑Turbo demonstrate higher OCR‑based text accuracy while preserving overall generation quality, outperforming several foundation and text‑rendering baselines.

By Mingxuan Cui, Jingpu Yang, Fengxian Ji, Qian Jiang, Zhecheng Shi, Jiaming Wang, Zirui Song, Zhuohan Xie, Fajri Koto, Xiuying Chen
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 3

Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO

The paper presents CycleGRPO, a reinforcement learning framework that unifies region understanding and localization for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). By treating the MLLM as both actor and critic, the method generates region captions and immediately grounds them back into spatial coordinates, using a token‑level cycle‑consistency reward that obviates the need for textual ground truths. Experiments on SAMTok demonstrate that CycleGRPO can bootstrap region captioning, VQA, grounded dialogue, and referring segmentation simultaneously, achieving consistent performance gains without task‑specific fine‑tuning.

By Xin Zhang, Haochen Wang, Yikang Zhou, Zhuochen Wang, Xiangtai Li, Robby T. Tan
arXiv AI
Sep 3

TikZilla: Scaling Text-to-TikZ with High-Quality Data and Reinforcement Learning

TikZilla is a new approach to generating TikZ code from textual descriptions, built on a larger, higher‑quality dataset called DaTikZ‑V4 that includes LLM‑generated figure descriptions. The method uses a two‑stage pipeline: supervised fine‑tuning of small Qwen models (3B and 8B) followed by reinforcement learning with an image encoder that provides semantically faithful reward signals. Human evaluations show that TikZilla outperforms its base models by 1.5–2 points on a 5‑point scale, beats GPT‑4o by 0.5 points, and matches GPT‑5 in image‑based tests while remaining much smaller.

By Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger
arXiv AI
Oct 5

Post-Training Frontier Text-to-Image Models by Composing Preference and Rubric Rewards

The paper presents a post‑training approach for text‑to‑image models that combines a preference reward, trained on large human preference data, with rubric‑based rewards that assess prompt faithfulness and other desirable traits. The authors show that a simple reward composition strategy outperforms a naive weighted average, leading to significant Elo gains on the Arena leaderboard for models like Flux2dev and Ideogram‑4. They also release Arena‑T2I‑Training, a 1K subset of data to aid reproducible research in post‑training.

By Yuanhao Ban, I-Hung Hsu, Anastasios Angelopoulos, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ion Stoica, Cho-Jui Hsieh