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DiffusionAgent: Navigating Expert Models for Agentic Image Generation

arXiv 2401.10061 ↗First posted 18 Jan 2024cs.CV cs.AIcited by 27

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Abstract (arXiv)

In the accelerating era of human-instructed visual content creation, diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable generative potential. Yet their deployment is constrained by a dual bottleneck: semantic ambiguity in diverse prompts and the narrow specialization of individual models. A single diffusion architecture struggles to maintain optimal performance across heterogeneous prompts, while conventional "parse-then-call" pipelines artificially separate semantic understanding from generative execution. To bridge this gap, we introduce DiffusionAgent, a unified, language-model-driven agent that casts the entire "prompt comprehension-expert routing-image synthesis" loop into a agentic framework. Our contributions are three-fold: (1) a tree-of-thought-powered expert navigator that performs fine-grained semantic parsing and zero-shot matching to the most suitable diffusion model via an extensible prior-knowledge tree; (2) an advantage database updated with human-in-the-loop feedback, continually aligning model-selection policy with human aesthetic and semantic preferences; and (3) a fully decoupled agent architecture that activates the optimal generative path for open-domain prompts without retraining or fine-tuning any expert. Extensive experiments show that DiffusionAgent retains high generation quality while significantly broadening prompt coverage, establishing a new performance and generality benchmark for multi-domain image synthesis. The code is available at https://github.com/DiffusionAgent/DiffusionAgent

Key facts. Cited by 27 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 28 of its 29 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 18 Jan 2024.

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  3. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
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  12. 2023DeltaEdit: Exploring Text-free Training for Text-Driven Image Manipulationcited by 27

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  5. 2025A Survey of Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 37
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