Subject-driven personalized text-to-image generation requires a pretrained diffusion model to acquire a specific subject from a few reference images while preserving subject identity, following novel text prompts, and maintaining sample diversity. Existing optimization-based methods instantiate subject adaptation through full fine-tuning, textual embedding optimization, or low-rank parameter updates; PaRa further constrains personalization from the perspective of parameter rank reduction.
arXiv:2609.40361v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are rapidly advancing clinical diagnosis, yet their adaptation pipelines remain anchored to accuracy-based o...
By Tian Xia, Minghao Liu, Yiqing Liang, Laixi Shi, Jiayun Wang
arXiv:2606. 16682v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: When AI agents use language models to evaluate their own outputs in a feedback loop, systematic biases emerge.
By Zewen Liu
TextVBench is a new benchmark and evaluation framework for assessing how well video generation models render and preserve text. It introduces two tracks—TextVBench‑T2V for prompt‑specified text creation and maintenance, and TextVBench‑Ref2V for preserving text from reference images—using a multi‑target, multi‑instance spatiotemporal correspondence approach. The framework employs target‑conditioned candidate selection, supports multiple OCR regions per target, and separates spatial and temporal fidelity, summarizing results with a length‑weighted harmonic score and detailed diagnostics.
By Ruiqiang Zhang, Hengyi Wang, Chang Liu, Guanjie Wang, Zehua Ma, Weiming Zhang
The paper introduces PixelJev, a native-image decision interface that combines an image, a task instruction, and a runtime candidate set into a structured choice and candidate-conditioned probabilities using small open multimodal models. It unifies recognition and multiple-choice visual question answering via a language-model readout, offering options for frozen inference, language-side adaptation, and held-out calibration. Across seven benchmarks, 64-shot source adaptation significantly boosts Pets accuracy from 60.13% to 92.40%, and the system supports both VQA tasks with frozen inference, while also highlighting areas for improvement such as schema robustness and cross-family transfer.
By Xunlan Zhou, Xianliang Yang, Li Zhao
The paper introduces SatisDive, a training‑free inference method that balances reward and diversity in text‑to‑image diffusion by enforcing a reward floor for each image and a diversity cutoff for the batch. By adjusting the reward floor, the method traces a Pareto frontier between worst‑candidate reward and batch diversity. Experiments on Pick‑a‑Pic show that SatisDive consistently outperforms FK steering, improving worst‑candidate reward by up to 0.70 in some settings and Pareto‑dominating FK steering across overlapping DreamSim ranges.
By Kevin Zhai, Siva Rajesh Kasa, Soumya Roy, Sumit Negi, Mubarak Shah
Subject-driven image personalization---generating new images that preserve the identity of one or several reference subjects in novel scenes---is a foundational capability for modern visual content creation. It is currently dominated by generalized methods that fine-tune a pretrained multimodal diffusion transformer (MMDiT) on hundreds of thousands to millions of paired \emph{(reference, composed-target)} examples, where each composed target is a synthesized image of the subject in a novel scene.
The paper introduces D3-Omni, a balanced and decoupled benchmark designed to diagnose fine‑grained multimodal understanding in OmniJudges that evaluate text‑to‑image, text‑to‑video, and text‑to‑speech generation. D3-Omni covers 53 orthogonal binary dimensions across 10,671 samples, using fixed positive seeds and controlled prompt rewriting to generate negatives, thereby ensuring each error can be attributed to a single capability. The benchmark’s dual‑balanced, decoupled, and dynamic design achieves near 1:1 per‑dimension parity and a uniform total‑score distribution, revealing that strong OmniJudges often miss modality‑related failures and treat distinct attributes as a single decision, masking systematic blind spots.
By Guangzheng Hu, Ziyue Jiang, Weixu Qiao, Lixin Zhang, Jianye Kang, Yuru Wu, Rong Bao, Niantong Li, Wei Wang, Ziyi Cheng, Xinfa Zhu, HangRui Hu, Ting He, Bing Zhao, Lin Qu, Hu Wei, Jin Xu
The paper introduces PixelJev, a native-image decision interface that combines an image, a task instruction, and a runtime candidate set to produce a structured choice and candidate-conditioned probabilities using small open multimodal models. It unifies recognition and multiple-choice visual question answering via a language-model readout, offering options for frozen inference, language-side adaptation, and held-out calibration. Across seven benchmarks, 64-shot source adaptation significantly boosts Pets accuracy from 60.13% to 92.40%, and the model supports VQA tasks without target fitting, though calibration and cross-family transfer remain challenges.
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
XTC (Exclude Top Choices) is a lightweight, head‑aware decoding operator that improves diversity in autoregressive language models by removing overly probable tokens that dominate the next‑token distribution. It works by identifying tokens above a plausibility threshold, probabilistically excluding the dominant choices, and renormalizing the remaining distribution. Across 60 experiments on models such as Gemma 3 and DeepSeek R1, XTC boosts Distinct‑2 scores by 11–15 % and cuts repeat trigrams by 27–47 %, while a Mechanical Turk study shows a 62.3 % preference for XTC‑generated text without loss of fluency.
By Philipp Emanuel Weidmann, Allen Roush, Judah Goldfeder, Sanjay Basu, Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
The paper introduces Dual-Seed Comparison (DSC), a protocol that uses two independent LLM-generated seeds to reduce systematic bias in probabilistic sampling. DSC constructs a bit sequence from the character-level ordinal values of the seeds, normalizes it into a pseudo-uniform variate, and maps it to the target distribution via the inverse cumulative distribution function. Empirical results show DSC outperforms existing methods in 96% of evaluated settings and enhances distributional control in tasks like MCQ generation and attribute-constrained text-to-image prompting.
By Zihao Guo, Hongtao Lv, Chaoli Zhang, Laiguo Yin, Lei Liu, Yonghui Xu, Lizhen Cui