# GraphDreamer: Compositional 3D Scene Synthesis from Scene Graphs

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.00093 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.00093/

## Key facts

- Cited by 97 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 37 of its 46 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 30 Nov 2023.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [Image generation, text-to-image and editing](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/image-generation-text-to-image-and-editing/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 37)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11487/) (2022)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [LAION-5B: An open large-scale dataset for training next generation image-text models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08402/) (2022)
- [Improved Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.09672/) (2021)
- [Instant Neural Graphics Primitives with a Multiresolution Hash Encoding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.05989/) (2022)
- [DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14988/) (2022)
- [Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1602.07332/) (2016)
- [Mip-NeRF: A Multiscale Representation for Anti-Aliasing Neural Radiance Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13415/) (2021)
- [NeuS: Learning Neural Implicit Surfaces by Volume Rendering for Multi-view Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.10689/) (2021)
- [Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11328/) (2023)
- [Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.10440/) (2022)
- [ProlificDreamer: High-Fidelity and Diverse Text-to-3D Generation with Variational Score Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.16213/) (2023)
- [Variational Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2107.00630/) (2021)
- [Volume Rendering of Neural Implicit Surfaces](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.12052/) (2021)
- [MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.16512/) (2023)
- [Implicit Geometric Regularization for Learning Shapes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.10099/) (2020)
- [Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.13826/) (2023)
- [Fantasia3D: Disentangling Geometry and Appearance for High-quality Text-to-3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13873/) (2023)
- [Score Jacobian Chaining: Lifting Pretrained 2D Diffusion Models for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.00774/) (2022)
- [Zero-Shot Text-Guided Object Generation with Dream Fields](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.01455/) (2021)
- [Latent-NeRF for Shape-Guided Generation of 3D Shapes and Textures](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.07600/) (2022)
- [Deep Marching Tetrahedra: a Hybrid Representation for High-Resolution 3D Shape Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.04276/) (2021)
- [Text2Mesh: Text-Driven Neural Stylization for Meshes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.03221/) (2021)
- [CLIP-Mesh: Generating textured meshes from text using pretrained image-text models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.13333/) (2022)
- [Towards Causal Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.11107/) (2021)
- [Dream3D: Zero-Shot Text-to-3D Synthesis Using 3D Shape Prior and Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.14704/) (2022)
- [Compositional 3D Scene Generation using Locally Conditioned Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.12218/) (2023)
- [Graph-to-3D: End-to-End Generation and Manipulation of 3D Scenes Using Scene Graphs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.08841/) (2021)

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 97)

- [CamCo: Camera-Controllable 3D-Consistent Image-to-Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.02509/) (2024)
- [PartCrafter: Structured 3D Mesh Generation via Compositional Latent Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.05573/) (2025)
- [DreamScene360: Unconstrained Text-to-3D Scene Generation with Panoramic Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.06903/) (2024)
- [TC4D: Trajectory-Conditioned Text-to-4D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.17920/) (2024)
- [SINGAPO: Single Image Controlled Generation of Articulated Parts in Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.16499/) (2024)
- [EchoScene: Indoor Scene Generation via Information Echo over Scene Graph Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.00915/) (2024)
- [ComboVerse: Compositional 3D Assets Creation Using Spatially-Aware Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.12409/) (2024)
- [InfiniCube: Unbounded and Controllable Dynamic 3D Driving Scene Generation with World-Guided Video Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.03934/) (2024)
- [SceneGen: Single-Image 3D Scene Generation in One Feedforward Pass](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.15769/) (2025)
- [Lexicon3D: Probing Visual Foundation Models for Complex 3D Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.03757/) (2024)
- [Open-Universe Indoor Scene Generation using LLM Program Synthesis and Uncurated Object Databases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.09675/) (2024)
- [REPARO: Compositional 3D Assets Generation with Differentiable 3D Layout Alignment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.18525/) (2024)
- [When LLMs step into the 3D World: A Survey and Meta-Analysis of 3D Tasks via Multi-modal Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.10255/) (2024)
- [SceneCraft: Layout-Guided 3D Scene Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.09049/) (2024)
- [The Scene Language: Representing Scenes with Programs, Words, and Embeddings](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.16770/) (2024)
- [Mixed Diffusion for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.21066/) (2024)
- [Efficient Diversity-Preserving Diffusion Alignment via Gradient-Informed GFlowNets](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.07775/) (2024)
- [Direct Numerical Layout Generation for 3D Indoor Scene Synthesis via Spatial Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.05341/) (2025)
- [AutoVFX: Physically Realistic Video Editing from Natural Language Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.02394/) (2024)
- [3DGraphLLM: Combining Semantic Graphs and Large Language Models for 3D Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18450/) (2024)
- [Frankenstein: Generating Semantic-Compositional 3D Scenes in One Tri-Plane](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.16210/) (2024)
- [AvatarGO: Zero-shot 4D Human-Object Interaction Generation and Animation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.07164/) (2024)
- [Embodied AI: From LLMs to World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.20021/) (2025)
- [Layout-your-3D: Controllable and Precise 3D Generation with 2D Blueprint](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.15391/) (2024)
- [WorldCraft: Photo-Realistic 3D World Creation and Customization via LLM Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.15601/) (2025)
- [MV-SAM3D: Adaptive Multi-View Fusion for Layout-Aware 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.11633/) (2026)
- [Compositional 3D-aware Video Generation with LLM Director](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.00558/) (2024)
- [PuzzleAvatar: Assembling 3D Avatars from Personal Albums](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.14869/) (2024)
- [PAT3D: Physics-Augmented Text-to-3D Scene Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.21978/) (2025)
- [HOLODECK 2.0: Vision-Language-Guided 3D World Generation with Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.05899/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

As pretrained text-to-image diffusion models become increasingly powerful, recent efforts have been made to distill knowledge from these text-to-image pretrained models for optimizing a text-guided 3D model. Most of the existing methods generate a holistic 3D model from a plain text input. This can be problematic when the text describes a complex scene with multiple objects, because the vectorized text embeddings are inherently unable to capture a complex description with multiple entities and relationships. Holistic 3D modeling of the entire scene further prevents accurate grounding of text entities and concepts. To address this limitation, we propose GraphDreamer, a novel framework to generate compositional 3D scenes from scene graphs, where objects are represented as nodes and their interactions as edges. By exploiting node and edge information in scene graphs, our method makes better use of the pretrained text-to-image diffusion model and is able to fully disentangle different objects without image-level supervision. To facilitate modeling of object-wise relationships, we use signed distance fields as representation and impose a constraint to avoid inter-penetration of objects. To avoid manual scene graph creation, we design a text prompt for ChatGPT to generate scene graphs based on text inputs. We conduct both qualitative and quantitative experiments to validate the effectiveness of GraphDreamer in generating high-fidelity compositional 3D scenes with disentangled object entities.