arXiv Machine Learning

AI for Cultural Heritage Textiles: Fine-Tuned Latent Diffusion for Novel Ulos Motif Synthesis

arXiv:2607. 06590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Preserving and revitalising traditional textiles such as Ulos, a cultural heritage of the Batak ethnic group in North Sumatra, Indonesia, requires balancing fidelity to tradition with innovative approaches that meet contemporary design demands.

arXiv AI
Sep 17

Multimodal Conditioning of Fine-Tuned Stable Diffusion XL for Controllable and Culturally Faithful Ulos Motif Generation

The paper introduces a multimodal generative framework that fine‑tunes Stable Diffusion XL with LoRA and couples it to a LLaMA 1.5‑7B language model to produce culturally faithful Batak Ulos motifs. Four conditioning mechanisms—text, image, representation, and semantic map—are jointly used to steer the generation, and an ablation study shows that combining all four actually degrades performance compared to selective combinations. A web prototype and user studies with weavers and the public demonstrate the system’s practical value for preserving and innovating Ulos design.

By Humasak Simanjuntak, Tamara Yunika Sianipar, Bronson T. M Siallagan, Difya Laurensya Ambarita, Arlinta Barus
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 26

DetailAnywhere: Fashion Detail Generation via Cross-Modal Feature Alignment Distillation

DetailAnywhere introduces a new fashion detail generation task that focuses on generating photorealistic close‑up views of specific garment regions, such as collars or cuffs, based on a focus marker in a reference image. The authors release FDBench, a benchmark of over 40,000 human‑verified detail pairs across 41 categories, and propose Cross‑Modal Feature Alignment Distillation (CFAD) to align multimodal diffusion branches using a DINOv3 teacher. A consistency reward model further improves alignment, and experiments show DetailAnywhere surpasses existing open‑source methods in both quantitative metrics and human evaluation.

By Zijun Li, Yimin Zhou, Jia Sun, Honglie Wang, Pengcheng Wei, Junlong Wu, Yongrui Heng, Jiyuan Wang, Huan Ouyang, Boheng Zhang, Huaiqing Wang, Dewen Fan, Qianqian Gan, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 12

Through Van Gogh's Eyes: Global Style Transfer with Diffusion Mod

Artistic image synthesis aims to recreate the expressive visual identity of a target artist, yet existing methods often fail to capture an artist's global style. Conventional style transfer methods transfer the style of one or a few reference artworks to a content image in a One-to-One manner, making them effective for artwork-level stylization but limited in representing the broader stylistic distribution of an artist.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 17

Fashion Outfit Generation via Unified Sequential Composition Models

arXiv:2608. 13888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of synthesizing stylistically coherent fashion outfits from massive item libraries, known as fashion outfit generation, remains a non-trivial challenge, primarily due to the non-monotonic and implicit nature of aesthetic compatibility, coupled with the exponentially large combinatorial search space.

By Kaicheng Pang, Xingxing Zou, Ruohan Xu, Waikeung Wong
arXiv AI
Sep 1

RAGDiffusion++: From Macro-Retrieval to Micro-Fidelity Alignment for Garment Generation

RAGDiffusion++ advances garment generation by addressing the high‑frequency texture gap that previous retrieval‑augmented models left unresolved. The approach introduces a dual‑image FLUX architecture trained on a large, complex garment dataset, coupled with a new attribute‑aware reward model that guides reinforcement learning to favor realistic high‑frequency patterns. An adversarial‑regularized RL strategy (AR‑GRPO) further prevents artifact exploitation, ensuring the model samples authentic, detailed garment textures.

By Yuhan Li, Xianfeng Tan, Fangao Zeng, Wenxiang Shang, Pipei Huang, Hao Zhou, Zhiyu Jin, Wenjun Zhang, Bingbing Ni
arXiv AI
Jul 2

UltraFlux: Data-Model Co-Design for High-quality Native 4K Text-to-Image Generation across Diverse Aspect Ratios

arXiv:2511. 18050v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion transformers have recently delivered strong text-to-image generation around 1K resolution, but we show that extending them to native 4K across diverse aspect ratios exposes a tightly coupled failure mode spanning positional encoding, VAE compression, and optimization.

By Tian Ye, Song Fei, Lei Zhu