# DreamReward: Text-to-3D Generation with Human Preference

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14613 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14613/

## Key facts

- Cited by 56 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 49 of its 57 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 21 Mar 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 49)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [GPT-4 Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.08774/) (2023)
- [Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02155/) (2022)
- [Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1910.10683/) (2019)
- [Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.05233/) (2021)
- [Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.18290/) (2023)
- [Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.03585/) (2015)
- [Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06125/) (2022)
- [3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.04079/) (2023)
- [BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.12597/) (2023)
- [Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.05543/) (2023)
- [BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.12086/) (2022)
- [GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10741/) (2021)
- [DreamFusion: Text-to-3D using 2D Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.14988/) (2022)
- [ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03012/) (2015)
- [Learning to summarize from human feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.01325/) (2020)
- [Fine-Tuning Language Models from Human Preferences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.08593/) (2019)
- [Objaverse: A Universe of Annotated 3D Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08051/) (2022)
- [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)
- [Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.13301/) (2023)
- [MVDream: Multi-view Diffusion for 3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.16512/) (2023)
- [LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3D](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.04400/) (2023)
- [DreamGaussian: Generative Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.16653/) (2023)
- [Diffusion Model Alignment Using Direct Preference Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.12908/) (2023)
- [LGM: Large Multi-View Gaussian Model for High-Resolution 3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.05054/) (2024)
- [Point-E: A System for Generating 3D Point Clouds from Complex Prompts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08751/) (2022)
- [Fantasia3D: Disentangling Geometry and Appearance for High-quality Text-to-3D Content Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.13873/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 56)

- [VD3D: Taming Large Video Diffusion Transformers for 3D Camera Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.12781/) (2024)
- [AC3D: Analyzing and Improving 3D Camera Control in Video Diffusion Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.18673/) (2024)
- [DimensionX: Create Any 3D and 4D Scenes from a Single Image with Controllable Video Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.04928/) (2024)
- [Unique3D: High-Quality and Efficient 3D Mesh Generation from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.20343/) (2024)
- [TC4D: Trajectory-Conditioned Text-to-4D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.17920/) (2024)
- [DeepMesh: Auto-Regressive Artist-mesh Creation with Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.15265/) (2025)
- [Lyra 2.0: Explorable Generative 3D Worlds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.13036/) (2026)
- [Lyra: Generative 3D Scene Reconstruction via Video Diffusion Model Self-Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.19296/) (2025)
- [ShapeLLM-Omni: A Native Multimodal LLM for 3D Generation and Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.01853/) (2025)
- [Alignment of Diffusion Models: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Future](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2409.07253/) (2024)
- [Baking Gaussian Splatting into Diffusion Denoiser for Fast and Scalable Single-stage Image-to-3D Generation and Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.14384/) (2024)
- [NANO3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Masks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.15019/) (2025)
- [Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Brick Structures from Text](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.05469/) (2025)
- [Mesh-RFT: Enhancing Mesh Generation via Fine-grained Reinforcement Fine-Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.16761/) (2025)
- [VividDreamer: Invariant Score Distillation For Hyper-Realistic Text-to-3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.09822/) (2024)
- [A Survey On Text-to-3D Contents Generation In The Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.09431/) (2024)
- [Efficient Autoregressive Shape Generation via Octree-Based Adaptive Tokenization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.02817/) (2025)
- [Smoothed Preference Optimization via ReNoise Inversion for Aligning Diffusion Models with Varied Human Preferences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.02698/) (2025)
- [3DGen-Bench: Comprehensive Benchmark Suite for 3D Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.21745/) (2025)
- [Integrating Reinforcement Learning with Visual Generative Models: Foundations and Advances](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.10316/) (2025)
- [Nabla-R2D3: Effective and Efficient 3D Diffusion Alignment with 2D Rewards](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.15684/) (2025)
- [Omni-Reward: Towards Generalist Omni-Modal Reward Modeling with Free-Form Preferences](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.23451/) (2025)
- [One2Scene: Geometric Consistent Explorable 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.19766/) (2026)
- [MeshRipple: Structured Autoregressive Generation of Artist-Meshes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.07514/) (2025)
- [CoRe3D: Collaborative Reasoning as a Foundation for 3D Intelligence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.12768/) (2025)
- [Reinforcement Learning for Large Model: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.08189/) (2025)
- [Benchmarking and Learning Multi-Dimensional Quality Evaluator for Text-to-3D Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.11170/) (2024)
- [ReWorld: Multi-Dimensional Reward Modeling for Embodied World Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.12428/) (2026)
- [DreamCS: Geometry-Aware Text-to-3D Generation with Unpaired 3D Reward Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.09814/) (2025)
- [Part-X-MLLM: Part-aware 3D Multimodal Large Language Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.13647/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

3D content creation from text prompts has shown remarkable success recently. However, current text-to-3D methods often generate 3D results that do not align well with human preferences. In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework, coined DreamReward, to learn and improve text-to-3D models from human preference feedback. To begin with, we collect 25k expert comparisons based on a systematic annotation pipeline including rating and ranking. Then, we build Reward3D -- the first general-purpose text-to-3D human preference reward model to effectively encode human preferences. Building upon the 3D reward model, we finally perform theoretical analysis and present the Reward3D Feedback Learning (DreamFL), a direct tuning algorithm to optimize the multi-view diffusion models with a redefined scorer. Grounded by theoretical proof and extensive experiment comparisons, our DreamReward successfully generates high-fidelity and 3D consistent results with significant boosts in prompt alignment with human intention. Our results demonstrate the great potential for learning from human feedback to improve text-to-3D models.