mlsanityData to 7 Oct 2026

IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv 2410.07171 ↗First posted 9 Oct 2024cs.CVcited by 32

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

also in 1 more
Abstract (arXiv)

Advanced diffusion models like RPG, Stable Diffusion 3 and FLUX have made notable strides in compositional text-to-image generation. However, these methods typically exhibit distinct strengths for compositional generation, with some excelling in handling attribute binding and others in spatial relationships. This disparity highlights the need for an approach that can leverage the complementary strengths of various models to comprehensively improve the composition capability. To this end, we introduce IterComp, a novel framework that aggregates composition-aware model preferences from multiple models and employs an iterative feedback learning approach to enhance compositional generation. Specifically, we curate a gallery of six powerful open-source diffusion models and evaluate their three key compositional metrics: attribute binding, spatial relationships, and non-spatial relationships. Based on these metrics, we develop a composition-aware model preference dataset comprising numerous image-rank pairs to train composition-aware reward models. Then, we propose an iterative feedback learning method to enhance compositionality in a closed-loop manner, enabling the progressive self-refinement of both the base diffusion model and reward models over multiple iterations. Theoretical proof demonstrates the effectiveness and extensive experiments show our significant superiority over previous SOTA methods (e.g., Omost and FLUX), particularly in multi-category object composition and complex semantic alignment. IterComp opens new research avenues in reward feedback learning for diffusion models and compositional generation. Code: https://github.com/YangLing0818/IterComp

Key facts. Cited by 32 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 45 of its 48 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Oct 2024.

Builds on

45 of 48 references.

Closest ancestors · 13

Same direction, newest first

  1. 2024Be Yourself: Bounded Attention for Multi-Subject Text-to-Image Generation25 Mar
  2. 2024ELLA: Equip Diffusion Models with LLM for Enhanced Semantic Alignment8 Mar
  3. 2024InstanceDiffusion: Instance-level Control for Image Generation5 Feb
  4. 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs22 Jan
  5. 2023Rich Human Feedback for Text-to-Image Generation15 Dec
  6. 2023ECLIPSE: A Resource-Efficient Text-to-Image Prior for Image Generations7 Dec
  7. 2023BoxDiff: Text-to-Image Synthesis with Training-Free Box-Constrained Diffusion20 Jul
  8. 2023LLM-grounded Diffusion: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Large Language Models23 May
  9. 2023T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models16 Feb
  10. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Feb
  11. 2023Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models31 Jan
  12. 2023GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation17 Jan
1 more
  1. 2022DiffusionDB: A Large-scale Prompt Gallery Dataset for Text-to-Image Generative Models26 Oct

Other references · 32

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
  3. 2022Training language models to follow instructions with human feedbackcited by 15,712
  4. 2020Score-Based Generative Modeling through Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 8,964
  5. 2015Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamicscited by 7,005
  6. 2022Scalable Diffusion Models with Transformerscited by 5,931
  7. 2022BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generationcited by 4,310
  8. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,290
  9. 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,094
  10. 2022Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedbackcited by 3,634
  11. 2023ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 1,010
  12. 2023Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learningcited by 939
20 more
  1. 2023PixArt-α: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesiscited by 854
  2. 2023Diffusion Model Alignment Using Direct Preference Optimizationcited by 767
  3. 2023Directly Fine-Tuning Diffusion Models on Differentiable Rewardscited by 431
  4. 2023Aligning Text-to-Image Models using Human Feedbackcited by 418
  5. 2023Training-Free Layout Control with Cross-Attention Guidancecited by 312
  6. 2023Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Reward Backpropagationcited by 284
  7. 2023Emu: Enhancing Image Generation Models Using Photogenic Needles in a Haystackcited by 278
  8. 2023T2I-CompBench++: An Enhanced and Comprehensive Benchmark for Compositional Text-to-image Generationcited by 253
  9. 2023Using Human Feedback to Fine-tune Diffusion Models without Any Reward Modelcited by 246
  10. 2022ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generationcited by 177
  11. 2024GenArtist: Multimodal LLM as an Agent for Unified Image Generation and Editingcited by 132
  12. 2024MIGC: Multi-Instance Generation Controller for Text-to-Image Synthesiscited by 123
  13. 2024Aesthetic Post-Training Diffusion Models from Generic Preferences with Step-by-step Preference Optimizationcited by 81
  14. 2023GenTron: Diffusion Transformers for Image and Video Generationcited by 80
  15. 2023DreamSync: Aligning Text-to-Image Generation with Image Understanding Feedbackcited by 57
  16. 2024A Dense Reward View on Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion with Preferencecited by 55
  17. 2024PRDP: Proximal Reward Difference Prediction for Large-Scale Reward Finetuning of Diffusion Modelscited by 41
  18. 2024Dimba: Transformer-Mamba Diffusion Modelscited by 26
  19. 2024SAIL: Self-Improving Efficient Online Alignment of Large Language Modelscited by 20
  20. 2024UniFL: Improve Latent Diffusion Model via Unified Feedback Learningcited by 9

Built on by

Cited by year (2026 to 7 Oct)

Citing papers per year: 2024: 2; 2025: 17; 2026: 13.

32 papers.

Sort:

By area:

  1. 2025MMaDA: Multimodal Large Diffusion Language Modelscited by 241
  2. 2025ART: Anonymous Region Transformer for Variable Multi-Layer Transparent Image Generationcited by 37
  3. 2025Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimizationcited by 35
  4. 2025RePrompt: Reasoning-Augmented Reprompting for Text-to-Image Generation via Reinforcement Learningcited by 22
  5. 2025HermesFlow: Seamlessly Closing the Gap in Multimodal Understanding and Generationcited by 17
  6. 2025Generative Universal Verifier as Multimodal Meta-Reasonercited by 17
  7. 2024LAION-SG: An Enhanced Large-Scale Dataset for Training Complex Image-Text Models with Structural Annotationscited by 12
  8. 2024Text-to-Image Synthesis: A Decade Surveycited by 9
  9. 2025Diffusion-Sharpening: Fine-tuning Diffusion Models with Denoising Trajectory Sharpeningcited by 6
  10. 2025Inversion-DPO: Precise and Efficient Post-Training for Diffusion Modelscited by 6
  11. 2026LeapAlign: Post-Training Flow Matching Models at Any Generation Step by Building Two-Step Trajectoriescited by 6
  12. 2026Search Beyond What Can Be Taught: Evolving the Knowledge Boundary in Agentic Visual Generationcited by 6
20 more
  1. 2025AgentComp: From Agentic Reasoning to Compositional Mastery in Text-to-Image Modelscited by 5
  2. 2025Fine-Grained Alignment and Noise Refinement for Compositional Text-to-Image Generationcited by 4
  3. 2025Role Bias in Diffusion Models: Diagnosing and Mitigating through Intermediate Decompositioncited by 4
  4. 2025Diffusion Distillation With Direct Preference Optimization For Efficient 3D LiDAR Scene Completioncited by 4
  5. 2025Detail++: Training-Free Detail Enhancer for T2I Diffusion Modelscited by 4
  6. 2026MetaPoint: Unlocking Precise Spatial Control in Agentic Visual Generationcited by 4
  7. 2025Direct Diffusion Score Preference Optimization via Stepwise Contrastive Policy-Pair Supervisioncited by 2
  8. 2026OmniVerifier-M1: Multimodal Meta-Verifier with Explicit Structured Recalibrationcited by 2
  9. 2025When Distillation Breaks Motion Control: Restoring Generative Trajectories for Fast Video Generatorscited by 1
  10. 2025GTAvatar: Bridging Gaussian Splatting and Texture Mapping for Relightable and Editable Gaussian Avatarscited by 1
  11. 2026Beyond Binary Preference: Aligning Diffusion Models to Fine-grained Criteria by Decoupling Attributescited by 1
  12. 2026Correlation-Weighted Multi-Reward Optimization for Compositional Generationcited by 1
  13. 2026VidForensics-M1: Meta-Detection Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Temporal Grounding for AI-Generated Video Forensicscited by 1
  14. 2025ISAC: Training-Free Instance-to-Semantic Attention Control for Multi-Instance Generationcited by 0
  15. 2026Bridging the Intention-Expression Gap: Aligning Multi-Dimensional Preferences via Hierarchical Relevance Feedback in Text-to-Image Diffusioncited by 0
  16. 2026ELDiff: When Evidential Learning Meets Text-to-Image Diffusioncited by 0
  17. 2026Panoptic Scene Program Diffusion Transformercited by 0
  18. 2026OptiCom : A Unified Framework for State-Conditioned Composition in LLM-Driven Optimizationcited by 0
  19. 2026Evaluating the Evaluators: Diagnosing Large Multimodal Models for AI-Generated Image Assessmentcited by 0
  20. 2026EvoGen-Harness: Learning Where and How to Evolve Image-Generation Harnessescited by 0

Similar, not cited

Close in wording, no citation either way

  1. 2026TILT: Improving Compositional Generation in Diffusion Models with a Model-Intrinsic Reward
  2. 2024Diffusion Beats Autoregressive: An Evaluation of Compositional Generation in Text-to-Image Models
  3. 2023Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Compositional Generation with Energy-Based Diffusion Models and MCMC
  4. 2022Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis
  5. 2025Improving Compositional Generation with Diffusion Models Using Lift Scores
  6. 2025Compositional Discrete Latent Code for High Fidelity, Productive Diffusion Models
  7. 2024All Seeds Are Not Equal: Enhancing Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Reliable Random Seeds
  8. 2023Compositional Sculpting of Iterative Generative Processes