# CalliffusionV2: Personalized Natural Calligraphy Generation with Flexible Multi-modal Control

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03787 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.03787/

## Key facts

- Cited by 3 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 31 of its 33 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 3 Oct 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 31)

- [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020)
- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09685/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.05233/) (2021)
- [Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06125/) (2022)
- [Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.07004/) (2016)
- [Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.05600/) (2019)
- [Improved Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.09672/) (2021)
- [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022)
- [Image Super-Resolution via Iterative Refinement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.07636/) (2021)
- [Palette: Image-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.05826/) (2021)
- [Improved Techniques for Training Score-Based Generative Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.09011/) (2020)
- [ILVR: Conditioning Method for Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.02938/) (2021)
- [UniPC: A Unified Predictor-Corrector Framework for Fast Sampling of Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.04867/) (2023)
- [Pivotal Tuning for Latent-based Editing of Real Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.05744/) (2021)
- [LongLoRA: Efficient Fine-tuning of Long-Context Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.12307/) (2023)
- [HyperDreamBooth: HyperNetworks for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.06949/) (2023)
- [Controlling Text-to-Image Diffusion by Orthogonal Finetuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.07280/) (2023)
- [LoftQ: LoRA-Fine-Tuning-Aware Quantization for Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.08659/) (2023)
- [Continual Diffusion: Continual Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion with C-LoRA](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.06027/) (2023)
- [DG-Font: Deformable Generative Networks for Unsupervised Font Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.03064/) (2021)
- [FontDiffuser: One-Shot Font Generation via Denoising Diffusion with Multi-Scale Content Aggregation and Style Contrastive Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.12142/) (2023)
- [Few-shot Font Generation with Localized Style Representations and Factorization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.11042/) (2020)
- [Multiple Heads are Better than One: Few-shot Font Generation with Multiple Localized Experts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.00887/) (2021)
- [Few-shot Compositional Font Generation with Dual Memory](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.10510/) (2020)
- [CalliGAN: Style and Structure-aware Chinese Calligraphy Character Generator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.12500/) (2020)
- [CF-Font: Content Fusion for Few-shot Font Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14017/) (2023)
- [Calliffusion: Chinese Calligraphy Generation and Style Transfer with Diffusion Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.19124/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [UniCalli: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Column-Level Generation and Recognition of Chinese Calligraphy](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.13745/) (2025)
- [Moyun: A Diffusion-Based Model for Style-Specific Chinese Calligraphy Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.07618/) (2024)
- [CalliMaster: Mastering Page-level Chinese Calligraphy via Layout-guided Spatial Planning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.12482/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce CalliffusionV2, a novel system designed to produce natural Chinese calligraphy with flexible multi-modal control. Unlike previous approaches that rely solely on image or text inputs and lack fine-grained control, our system leverages both images to guide generations at fine-grained levels and natural language texts to describe the features of generations. CalliffusionV2 excels at creating a broad range of characters and can quickly learn new styles through a few-shot learning approach. It is also capable of generating non-Chinese characters without prior training. Comprehensive tests confirm that our system produces calligraphy that is both stylistically accurate and recognizable by neural network classifiers and human evaluators.