ToPO (Token-Oriented Preference Optimization) is a method for attention-based latent diffusion models that constructs a per‑minibatch, detached, separable spatial‑temporal route using branchwise squared‑residual contrast from a frozen reference denoiser. It employs preferred‑branch cross‑attention with content tokens to modulate spatial factors and adds an auxiliary pixel‑midpoint ordering term, all without local labels or a learned reward model. In experiments with shared update schedules, ToPO outperforms Diffusion‑DPO on five SD‑1.5 metrics and on HPSv2, ImageReward, and CLIP for SDXL, and achieves higher raw win shares in a blind SDXL A/B study.
By Juntao Xu, Shihong Li, Hoi Fan Au, Ning Zhu
The paper introduces Diffusion LAIR, a listwise preference optimization technique that leverages continuous reward scores instead of binary pairwise comparisons to align text‑to‑image diffusion models. LAIR transforms reward scores into centered advantage weights and optimizes an advantage‑weighted regression objective on an implicit reward defined by denoising‑loss improvement over a reference model, with a quadratic penalty to regulate reward magnitude. Experiments demonstrate that Diffusion LAIR surpasses strong baseline methods on SD1.5 and SDXL across generation, compositional, and editing tasks.
By Austin Wang, Jiaqi Han, Stefano Ermon, Yisong Yue
arXiv:2606. 17979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing RL post-training methods for text-to-image generation usually convert the final-image reward into a single scalar advantage and apply it with the same strength to the entire generative trajectory.
By Jinjie Shen, Wei Deng, Xian Hu, Daiguo Zhou, Jian Luan
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
arXiv:2610.01723v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved remarkable progress in image synthesis, yet can exhibit memorization by closely reproducing individual tra...
By Hyungjun Joo, Sehwan Kim, Hyeonggeun Han, Sangwoo Hong, Jungwoo Lee
arXiv:2511.19811v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Image diversity remains a fundamental challenge for text-to-image diffusion models. Low-diversity generation often leads to repetitive output...
By Debin Meng, Chen Jin, Zheng Gao, Yanran Li, Ioannis Patras, Georgios Tzimiropoulos
Visual Information-Guided Parallel Decoding for Diffusion Multimodal Large Language Models introduces the VIG‑Sampler, a method that prioritizes tokens for decoding based on their attention to image tokens and penalizes redundancy in image‑attention distributions. The approach aims to improve the quality of multimodal generation by selecting more informative tokens during diffusion decoding. Experiments on seven captioning and VQA benchmarks with three open‑source dMLLMs show that VIG‑Sampler outperforms the Info‑Gain Sampler by an average of 19.3 CIDEr points and achieves better COCO Caption results using only half as many decoding steps.
By Insu Lee, Wooje Park, Wonseok Shin, Jinwoo Son, Byonghyo Shim
arXiv:2604.24952v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Human visual preferences are inherently multi-dimensional, encompassing aesthetics, detail fidelity, and semantic alignment. However, existing data...
By Xinxin Liu, Ming Li, Zonglin Lyu, Yuzhang Shang, Chen Chen
arXiv:2506.02015v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled unified multimodal understanding and generation. However, they still strug...
By Yoonjin Oh, Yongjin Kim, Hyomin Kim, Donghwan Chi, Sungwoong Kim
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
The paper introduces Objective-aware Trajectory Credit Assignment (OTCA), a framework that refines reinforcement learning for diffusion-based visual generation. OTCA decomposes credit across denoising steps and allocates multiple reward signals adaptively, addressing the coarse, uniform reward assignment of existing GRPO pipelines. Experiments demonstrate that OTCA consistently enhances image and video generation quality across various metrics.
By Rui Li, Ke Hao, Yuanzhi Liang, Haibin Huang, Chi Zhang, Yun Gu, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2609.25716v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reference-based image quality assessment (IQA) metrics aim to reflect how humans perceive the perceptual distance between a pair of images. To learn ho...
By Jaihyun Lew, Mingi Jung, Minjun Park, Wooseok Song, Sungroh Yoon