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Seek for Incantations: Towards Accurate Text-to-Image Diffusion Synthesis through Prompt Engineering

arXiv 2401.06345 ↗First posted 12 Jan 2024cs.CVcited by 6

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

The text-to-image synthesis by diffusion models has recently shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality images. Although performs well for simple texts, the models may get confused when faced with complex texts that contain multiple objects or spatial relationships. To get the desired images, a feasible way is to manually adjust the textual descriptions, i.e., narrating the texts or adding some words, which is labor-consuming. In this paper, we propose a framework to learn the proper textual descriptions for diffusion models through prompt learning. By utilizing the quality guidance and the semantic guidance derived from the pre-trained diffusion model, our method can effectively learn the prompts to improve the matches between the input text and the generated images. Extensive experiments and analyses have validated the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Key facts. Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 13 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 28 of its 33 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Jan 2024.

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  1. 2022Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis9 Dec
  2. 2022DiffusionDet: Diffusion Model for Object Detection17 Nov
  3. 2022Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models17 Oct
  4. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  5. 2022Text-Guided Synthesis of Artistic Images with Retrieval-Augmented Diffusion Models26 Jul
  6. 2022Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Models3 Jun
  7. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  8. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  9. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec
  10. 2021Blended Diffusion for Text-driven Editing of Natural Images29 Nov
  11. 2021Palette: Image-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Nov

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  3. 2022DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusioncited by 3,019
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  6. 2022Video Diffusion Modelscited by 2,293
  7. 2021Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Modelscited by 2,276
  8. 2021SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 1,921
  9. 2022Conditional Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Modelscited by 1,431
  10. 2022Magic3D: High-Resolution Text-to-3D Content Creationcited by 1,288
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  12. 2019How Can We Know What Language Models Know?cited by 958
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  4. 2022Unifying Diffusion Models' Latent Space, with Applications to CycleDiffusion and Guidancecited by 67
  5. 2022PLOT: Prompt Learning with Optimal Transport for Vision-Language Modelscited by 64

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  4. 2023If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again: Faithful Diffusion-based Text-to-Image Generation by Selection
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