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:2510.12041v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have achieved impressive results, yet existing models often struggle with simple or underspecifie...
By Ruibo Chen, Jiacheng Pan, Heng Huang, Zhenheng Yang
arXiv:2505. 16915v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While recent Text-to-Image (T2I) models show impressive capabilities in synthesizing images from brief descriptions, they struggle with the long, detailed prompts required for professional applications.
By Qirui Jiao, Daoyuan Chen, Yilun Huang, Xika Lin, Ying Shen, Yaliang Li
arXiv:2607. 26735v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompt inversion, as a typical reverse engineering technique, enables text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models to generate the desired target images without extensive prompt engineering.
By Xiaolong Liu, Junjian Li, Yuan Xiao, Jiaqi Deng, Dayong Ye, Tianqing Zhu, Huan Huo
The paper investigates how long, richly detailed prompts cause modern text-to-image models to lose diversity, even when many visual aspects are unspecified. It introduces PromptMoG, a training‑free method that samples prompt embeddings from a Mixture‑of‑Gaussians distribution to restore diversity while preserving semantic fidelity. The authors also present LPD‑Bench, a benchmark for evaluating fidelity and diversity under long, semantically dense prompts, and demonstrate PromptMoG’s effectiveness on four large diffusion models.
By Bo-Kai Ruan, Teng-Fang Hsiao, Ling Lo, Yi-Lun Wu, Hong-Han Shuai
arXiv:2512.23245v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Recent text-to-image diffusion models have significantly improved visual quality and text alignment. However, generating a sequence of images while...
By Shin Seong Kim, Minjung Shin, Hyunin Cho, Youngjung Uh
The paper introduces TIC‑Bench, a new benchmark for evaluating multimodal large language models on deeply interleaved text‑image contexts. It covers logical, temporal, and spatial association tasks, totaling 2,280 questions across eight specific types. The authors benchmarked ten state‑of‑the‑art MLLMs, finding a significant performance gap versus human experts and highlighting persistent challenges in integrating evidence across interleaved visual and textual inputs.
By Zihao Wang, Xi Xiang, Yuwen Sun, Yingyu Li, Yabo Zhang, Yihan Zeng, Fan Li, Wangmeng Zuo
CompArt introduces a new approach to aesthetic alignment in text-to-image generation by using the Principles of Art (PoA) such as Balance, Rhythm, and Emphasis to define explicit compositional constraints. The authors create a large dataset of 80,032 WikiArt images, each annotated with PoA analyses generated by a multimodal LLM, and present ArtDapter, a lightweight adapter that steers a pretrained diffusion model along ten PoA dimensions while preserving semantic fidelity. Experiments demonstrate that CompArt outperforms strong baselines in adhering to PoA controls under a dual evaluation protocol.
By Zhe Jin, Tat-Seng Chua
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
The paper investigates image tokenizers as the visual language of unified multimodal models by creating a controlled autoregressive testbed that tracks task‑specific validation losses during multimodal continual pretraining across text, image, text‑to‑image, and image‑to‑text predictions. It shows that losses must be analyzed by task, that the loss–performance relationship varies with the token space, and that better reconstruction does not always lead to stronger downstream performance. The study also demonstrates how tokenizer design choices—such as discriminator use, semantic supervision, and vocabulary size—affect joint modeling and downstream results.
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
arXiv:2607. 08056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved substantial progress in natural language generation tasks.
By Yidong Ouyang, Zhe Wang, Sourav Bhabesh, Dmitriy Bespalov