The paper introduces a unified benchmark for personalized image generation that uses users' historical data—such as reviews, posts, images, captions, and metadata—to create images aligned with their lifestyle and aesthetic preferences. It defines two tasks: Personalized Scene Generation, which places objects in scenes reflecting user preferences for product presentation, and Personalized Creative Generation, which produces novel images faithful to a user's aesthetic for social media content. The authors also propose PEARL, a method that interleaves multimodal reasoning with a frozen image generator, achieving a 15% average improvement over baselines on personalization metrics.
By Bo Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qinwen Ge, Franck Dernoncourt, Seunghyun Yoon, Samyadeep Basu, Sungchul Kim, Puneet Mathur, Nedim Lipka, Tong Yu, Yu Wang, Ryan A. Rossi, Tyler Derr
arXiv:2606. 08841v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models are increasingly deployed in open-ended creative contexts, yet their outputs remain impersonal, optimized for aggregate aesthetics rather than individual taste.
By Harini SI, Somesh Singh, Yaman Kumar Singla, David Doermann, Rajiv Ratn Shah
arXiv:2511. 00609v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized image preference assessment aims to evaluate an individual user's image preferences by relying only on a small set of reference images as prior information.
By Shengqi Xu, Xinpeng Zhou, Yabo Zhang, Ming Liu, Tao Liang, Tianyu Zhang, Yalong Bai, Zuxuan Wu, Wangmeng Zuo
arXiv:2610.09015v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diffusion models can generate high-quality images, yet aligning their outputs with individual user preferences remains challenging. A key bottleneck is...
By Jiamu Bai, Jiaming Hu, Yanhong Wu, Zellux Wang
PhotoBench is a new benchmark built from authentic personal photo albums that moves beyond simple visual matching to focus on personalized, intent-driven retrieval. It incorporates a multi-source profiling framework that combines visual semantics, spatial‑temporal metadata, social identity, and temporal events to generate complex queries reflecting users’ life trajectories. Evaluation on PhotoBench reveals two key limitations: a modality gap where unified embedding models fail on non‑visual constraints, and a source fusion paradox where agentic systems struggle with tool orchestration.
By Tianyi Xu, Rong Shan, Junjie Wu, Jiadeng Huang, Teng Wang, Jiachen Zhu, Wenteng Chen, Minxin Tu, Quantao Dou, Zhaoxiang Wang, Changwang Zhang, Weinan Zhang, Jun Wang, Jianghao Lin
Recent text-to-image models such as DALLE-3 excel at following diverse prompts yet remain blind to individual aesthetic preferences. We study personalized image generation, where models must align outputs with a user's implicit visual preferences based on a few historically preferred images and a short prompt.
arXiv:2608. 07565v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conversational assistants increasingly recommend follow-up edits to help users continue a task.
By Zhijing Zhang, Jinpeng Yu, Xin Song, Bingnan Li, Chuyue Li, Changhui Du, Xiaolin Fang, Jiaming Liu, Ruihua Huang
arXiv:2606. 19627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The digital commerce landscape is shifting from static, search-driven catalogs to dynamic, immersive video feeds.
By Katya Mirylenka, Egor Malykh, Mahdyar Ravanbakhsh, Michael Gygli, Marco-Andrea Buchmann, Andrew Dzhoha, Svitlana Borzenko, Francesca Catino, Mohamed Gaafar, Maarten Versteegh, Thomas Kober, Dario d'Andrea, Ellie Langhans
arXiv:2606. 24196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern AIGC pipelines deliver high-fidelity images and videos but presuppose a well-formed creation instruction, while end users rarely articulate visual details, leaving generators misaligned with user demand.
By Hengji Zhou, Yufeng Liu, Ye Liu, Yong Xu, Lianghao Xia, Liqiang Nie
The paper introduces SEAL, a plug‑and‑play module that enhances single‑image sticker personalization in diffusion models by adding a semantic‑guided spatial attention loss, a split‑merge token strategy, and structure‑aware layer restriction. SEAL integrates without altering the U‑Net backbone and addresses overfitting issues such as visual entanglement and structural rigidity. Alongside SEAL, the authors release StickerBench, a large sticker dataset with six attribute tags to enable systematic evaluation of identity preservation and contextual controllability.
By Changhyun Roh, Yonghyun Jeong, Jonghyun Lee, Chanho Eom, Jihyong Oh
arXiv:2604.13491v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: With the rapid progress of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), unified MLLMs that jointly perform image understanding and generation have adv...
By Yongjin Kim, Yoonjin Oh, Yerin Kim, Hyomin Kim, Jeeyoung Yun, Yujung Heo, Minjun Kim, Sungwoong Kim
Traditional Image Aesthetic Assessment (IAA) methods mainly rely on regressing absolute Mean Opinion Scores (MOS). However, such a paradigm overlooks the inherently dynamic nature of human aesthetic perception, which relies on subconscious comparison against implicit visual references.