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Noise Diffusion for Enhancing Semantic Faithfulness in Text-to-Image Synthesis

arXiv 2411.16503 ↗First posted 25 Nov 2024cs.CVcited by 9

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion models have achieved impressive success in generating photorealistic images, but challenges remain in ensuring precise semantic alignment with input prompts. Optimizing the initial noisy latent offers a more efficient alternative to modifying model architectures or prompt engineering for improving semantic alignment. A latest approach, InitNo, refines the initial noisy latent by leveraging attention maps; however, these maps capture only limited information, and the effectiveness of InitNo is highly dependent on the initial starting point, as it tends to converge on a local optimum near this point. To this end, this paper proposes leveraging the language comprehension capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs) to guide the optimization of the initial noisy latent, and introduces the Noise Diffusion process, which updates the noisy latent to generate semantically faithful images while preserving distribution consistency. Furthermore, we provide a theoretical analysis of the condition under which the update improves semantic faithfulness. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and adaptability of our framework, consistently enhancing semantic alignment across various diffusion models. The code is available at https://github.com/Bomingmiao/NoiseDiffusion.

Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 43 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 25 Nov 2024.

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  1. 2024InitNO: Boosting Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Initial Noise Optimization6 Apr
  2. 2024Towards Understanding Cross and Self-Attention in Stable Diffusion for Text-Guided Image Editing6 Mar
  3. 2023A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Principled Recaptioning Improves Image Generation25 Oct
  4. 2023Divide & Bind Your Attention for Improved Generative Semantic Nursing20 Jul
  5. 2023A-STAR: Test-time Attention Segregation and Retention for Text-to-image Synthesis26 Jun
  6. 2023RAPHAEL: Text-to-Image Generation via Large Mixture of Diffusion Paths29 May
  7. 2023Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models31 Jan
  8. 2022Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis9 Dec
  9. 2022eDiff-I: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with an Ensemble of Expert Denoisers2 Nov
  10. 2022Best Prompts for Text-to-Image Models and How to Find Them23 Sep
  11. 2022Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Models3 Jun
  12. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
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  1. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  2. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec

Other references · 29

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  9. 2019DM-GAN: Dynamic Memory Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Image Synthesiscited by 308
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  11. 2021Design Guidelines for Prompt Engineering Text-to-Image Generative Modelscited by 218
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