This survey reviews 490 papers on text‑to‑image synthesis (T2I) over the past decade, covering key model families such as GANs, autoregressive models, and diffusion models. It organizes recent research by problem areas—controllability, personalization, editing, preference alignment, efficiency, safety, and spatial consistency—rather than strictly chronologically. The paper also examines unified multimodal models, datasets, evaluation metrics, and discusses applications, challenges, and future research directions in T2I.
By Nonghai Zhang, Hao Tang
arXiv:2605. 18714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture.
By Songsong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Ying Shan, Yanwei Li
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:2609.08282v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Unified multimodal models can generate images and interpret them, but their two capabilities are usually optimized with separate supervision. We in...
By Ke Hao, Yuanzhi Liang, Tingxi Chen, Rui Li, Haibin Huang, Chi Zhang, Yun Gu, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2607. 07117v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In text-to-image in-context learning (T2I-ICL), a model has to infer a latent compositional pattern from fewshot demonstrations for generating a query image.
By Stepanida Alekseeva, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan Lee
arXiv:2509. 24900v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The performance of unified multimodal models for image generation and editing is fundamentally constrained by the quality and comprehensiveness of their training data.
By Zhihong Chen, Xuehai Bai, Yang Shi, Chaoyou Fu, Huanyu Zhang, Haotian Wang, Xiaoyan Sun, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Yuanxing Zhang, Pengfei Wan, Yi-Fan Zhang