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:2608.29644v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Attributing an artwork to an artist has traditionally relied on detailed visual observations and descriptions, known as stylistic analysis in art his...
By Marc S. Walton, Astrid Harth
Loomis Painter is a framework that learns painting processes by training on reversed image‑to‑video sequences, preserving reference‑attention behavior and avoiding long‑range dependencies that disrupt pretrained models. It introduces a media‑transfer strategy to decouple input appearance from the target process, enabling generation across different artistic media. Evaluated on a curated dataset of real‑world painting processes, the method outperforms baselines on LPIPS, DINO, and CLIP metrics and receives consistent preference in expert and non‑expert user studies.
By Markus Pobitzer, Chang Liu, Chenyi Zhuang, Teng Long, Bin Ren, Nicu Sebe
Abstract‑LoRA introduces a lightweight LoRA training approach that targets specific U‑Net blocks in diffusion models to improve single‑image style transfer. By refining block selection, adding more blocks, and using clustering‑based style abstraction, it better disentangles and balances style and content compared to prior methods like B‑LoRA. Experiments show that the method produces more harmonious artistic images while quantitatively preserving both style and content.
By Xinglin Hu
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it investigates whether newer generative models are getting better at pastiching contemporary artworks.
arXiv:2412.12048v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a standard approach for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of image diffusion models, with over 200K models trai...
By Chenxi Liu, Towaki Takikawa, Alec Jacobson
arXiv:2602.08059v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion models can reproduce specific artists visual styles at extremely low cost, raising copyright and deployment safety co...
By Tong Zhang, Ru Zhang, Jianyi Liu
arXiv:2608. 14435v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frozen image embeddings from models such as CLIP are increasingly used to classify paintings by art-historical style, with high reported accuracy.
By Rory Ashton
arXiv:2608. 11643v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image generative models have advanced rapidly, with modern Diffusion Transformer architectures producing images that are increasingly difficult to distinguish from human-created artwork.
By Shivank Singh Thakur, Meien Li, Mark Stamp
Image style is a highly abstract, human-constructed concept shaped by a range of visual factors and intrinsically entangled with content, yet a unified and explicit definition of image style remains l...
The paper introduces a post‑training approach that enables a single inference process to transition from text reasoning to image synthesis, eliminating the need for explicit modality switching. Using the 14B BAGEL model, the authors demonstrate that targeted post‑training data and reward‑weighted training improve multimodal image generation across four independent T2I benchmarks. The study highlights the benefits of joint text‑image generation and strategic data selection for enhancing T2I performance.
By Jiahui Chen, Philippe Hansen-Estruch, Xiaochuang Han, Yushi Hu, Emily Dinan, Amita Kamath, Michal Drozdzal, Reyhane Askari-Hemmat, Luke Zettlemoyer, Marjan Ghazvininejad
arXiv:2608. 06751v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Artist-grounded image generation requires more than appending an artist name to a prompt.
By Kuan Xing, Ye Wang, Changyi Gan, Yuheng Li, Thao Nguyen, Yi Chang, Yilin Wang