ORCA (Orthogonal Residual Compositional Alignment) is a method that improves text-to-image diffusion models by aligning the diffusion transformer’s latent space with a low‑rank target derived from a frozen visual encoder. It introduces an auxiliary loss that uses a predictor with an orthogonal basis parameterised by a learned residual between T5 and CLIP embeddings, providing a prompt‑dependent signal for selecting the visual readout subspace. Experiments on three diffusion‑transformer backbones show that ORCA improves FID and GenEval scores, especially on attribute binding, spatial relations, and multi‑object prompts, without adding inference‑time cost.
By Arshia Hemmat, Amirhossein Vahidi, Amitis Shidani, Mohammad Vali Sanian, Hesam Asadollahzadeh, Aryan Yazdan Parast, Mohammad Lotfollahi
Text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models have achieved striking progress but still struggle to synthesize rare concepts involving unusual attribute-object pairings, often resulting in concept omission or semantic drift where a dominant entity overwhelms the generation. Tracing these failures to a lack of compositional balance during the denoising trajectory, we propose RADIANCE, a training-free framework that treats inference as a closed-loop feedback process.
arXiv:2610.28419v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language trackers (VLTs) accept descriptions intended to assist tracking, but accepting text does not establish that its content changes track...
By Dan Zlotnikov, Ohad Ben-Shahar
arXiv:2605.25765v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Existing closed-form methods for concept unlearning in text-to-image diffusion models typically derive editing directions from fixed text emb...
By Saemi Moon, Suhyeon Jun, Seoyeon Lee, Dongwoo Kim
arXiv:2509. 15357v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved strong results in text-to-image generation, but important limitations remain as prompts become more structured and multi-object.
By Yu Chang, Jiahao Chen, Anzhe Cheng, Paul Bogdan
The paper investigates how diffusion transformers (DiTs) denoise images by framing them as aggregator–predictor models that use context aggregation and patch prediction. It shows that for Gaussian Markov random field priors, a global Bayes denoiser can be approximated with a limited context, and that patchwise linear denoisers recover empirical local denoisers when aggregation is informative. Experiments confirm that DiTs trained on real images exhibit noise‑dependent denoising contexts and that replacing DiT MLPs with shared‑memory patch predictors yields competitive performance, while cross‑dataset component transplantation supports the proposed functional roles of attention and MLPs.
By Gyeonghun Kang, William Xingxu Chen, Xiang Cheng
TOLA is a diffusion‑based text image super‑resolution method that eliminates iterative image‑text diffusion by using a one‑step latent adaptation framework. It employs a confidence‑weighted text conditioning module to build a reliable semantic condition and a lightweight latent residual correction module to fix structured residual errors, thereby preserving text fidelity. Experiments show TOLA outperforms existing diffusion‑based TSR methods, achieving at least 2.72 dB higher PSNR on the CTR‑TSR‑Test benchmark.
By Yike Xu, Yue Shi, Yong Guo, Jiezhang Cao
FusionAudit introduces PaRMA, a pathway-conditioned robustness auditing framework for native multimodal vision‑language models. It evaluates two image‑level interventions—pixel perturbation and rendered‑text insertion—to expose architecture‑specific blind spots. The study applies diagnostic‑motivated attacks (MANTIS and Nat‑Evid) to 18 open‑weight VLMs, revealing that legacy single‑attack rankings are unstable and that PaRMA uncovers higher residual risk than standard benchmarks.
By Jiaming Zhang, Zherui Li, Siqi Guo, Junhao Dong, Kun Wang, Wei Yang Bryan Lim
arXiv:2605. 13974v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) and related flow-based architectures are now among the strongest text-to-image generators, yet the internal mechanisms through which prompts shape image semantics remain poorly understood.
By Evelyn Turri, Davide Bucciarelli, Sara Sarto, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia
The paper investigates attention sinks—tokens or positions that attract disproportionate attention—in text-to-image transformers, comparing bidirectional diffusion models and causal autoregressive models. It finds that both model types exhibit attention sinks, but with distinct patterns: autoregressive models focus on the first and global tokens, while diffusion models develop sinks near modality boundaries, within text regions, and at spatial corners. Perturbation experiments show that sink-related heads influence generation more than non-sink heads, and introducing register tokens can redistribute attention without harming performance.
By Binglei Li, Mengping Yang, Zhiyu Tan, Wenxu Qian, Junping Zhang, Hao Li
arXiv:2608. 03025v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) determines whether each candidate span and entity-type hypothesis is supported by joint textual and visual evidence.
By Feng Zhang, Feiyu Han, Rongxin Yang, Yang Liu, Yancheng Chen, Rui Wang, Yingguang Yang, Tian Xueyun, Chongyang Zhang, Hao Zheng, Xu Kefu, Congjing Ran, Fuhai Chen, Bin Chong
arXiv:2608. 03025v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal named entity recognition (MNER) determines whether each candidate span and entity-type hypothesis is supported by joint textual and visual evidence.
By Feng Zhang, Feiyu Han, Rongxin Yang, Yang Liu, Yancheng Chen, Rui Wang, Yingguang Yang, Tian Xueyun, Chongyang Zhang, Hao Zheng, Xu Kefu, Congjing Ran, Fuhai Chen, Bin Chong