mlsanityData to 14 Oct 2026

Fine-Grained Alignment and Noise Refinement for Compositional Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv 2503.06506 ↗First posted 9 Mar 2025cs.CV cs.LGcited by 4

Not on the map. Why?

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-image generative models have made significant advancements in recent years; however, accurately capturing intricate details in textual prompts-such as entity missing, attribute binding errors, and incorrect relationships remains a formidable challenge. In response, we present an innovative, training-free method that directly addresses these challenges by incorporating tailored objectives to account for textual constraints. Unlike layout-based approaches that enforce rigid structures and limit diversity, our proposed approach offers a more flexible arrangement of the scene by imposing just the extracted constraints from the text, without any unnecessary additions. These constraints are formulated as losses-entity missing, entity mixing, attribute binding, and spatial relationships-integrated into a unified loss that is applied in the first generation stage. Furthermore, we introduce a feedback-driven system for fine-grained initial noise refinement. This system integrates a verifier that evaluates the generated image, identifies inconsistencies, and provides corrective feedback. Leveraging this feedback, our refinement method first targets the unmet constraints by refining the faulty attention maps caused by initial noise, through the optimization of selective losses associated with these constraints. Subsequently, our unified loss function is reapplied to proceed the second generation phase. Experimental results demonstrate that our method, relying solely on our proposed objective functions, significantly enhances compositionality, achieving a 24% improvement in human evaluation and a 25% gain in spatial relationships. Furthermore, our fine-grained noise refinement proves effective, boosting performance by up to 5%. Code is available at hrefhttps://github.com/hadi-hosseini/noise-refinementhttps://github.com/hadi-hosseini/noise-refinement.

Key facts. Cited by 4 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 53 of its 60 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Mar 2025.

Builds on

53 of 60 references.

References · 53

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 21,076
  3. 2015U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 19,713
  4. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  5. 2023GPT-4 Technical Reportcited by 18,396
  6. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latentscited by 6,585
  7. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understandingcited by 6,355
  8. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 5,503
  9. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,356
  10. 2021Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generationcited by 4,288
  11. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Modelscited by 3,614
  12. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
38 more
  1. 2021CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioningcited by 2,424
  2. 2023T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 1,351
  3. 2022Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generationcited by 1,295
  4. 2022eDiff-I: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with an Ensemble of Expert Denoiserscited by 931
  5. 2023GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generationcited by 781
  6. 2023Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 702
  7. 2021CogView: Mastering Text-to-Image Generation via Transformerscited by 694
  8. 2017AttnGAN: Fine-Grained Text to Image Generation with Attentional Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 664
  9. 2023Muse: Text-To-Image Generation via Masked Generative Transformerscited by 648
  10. 2022Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Modelscited by 624
  11. 2016StackGAN: Text to Photo-realistic Image Synthesis with Stacked Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 577
  12. 2023Scaling up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesiscited by 492
  13. 2020Reliable Fidelity and Diversity Metrics for Generative Modelscited by 434
  14. 2023TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answeringcited by 428
  15. 2022Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesiscited by 388
  16. 2019DM-GAN: Dynamic Memory Generative Adversarial Networks for Text-to-Image Synthesiscited by 308
  17. 2023Composer: Creative and Controllable Image Synthesis with Composable Conditionscited by 304
  18. 2024Long-CLIP: Unlocking the Long-Text Capability of CLIPcited by 300
  19. 2021Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 259
  20. 2023LayoutDiffusion: Controllable Diffusion Model for Layout-to-image Generationcited by 259
  21. 2023LLM-grounded Diffusion: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Large Language Modelscited by 243
  22. 2025Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Stepscited by 234
  23. 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMscited by 224
  24. 2022ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generationcited by 179
  25. 2024InstanceDiffusion: Instance-level Control for Image Generationcited by 175
  26. 2024InitNO: Boosting Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Initial Noise Optimizationcited by 123
  27. 2024ReNO: Enhancing One-step Text-to-Image Models through Reward-based Noise Optimizationcited by 119
  28. 2022Benchmarking Spatial Relationships in Text-to-Image Generationcited by 97
  29. 2023HRS-Bench: Holistic, Reliable and Scalable Benchmark for Text-to-Image Modelscited by 95
  30. 2023A-STAR: Test-time Attention Segregation and Retention for Text-to-image Synthesiscited by 78
  31. 2021Improving Text-to-Image Synthesis Using Contrastive Learningcited by 62
  32. 2023CONFORM: Contrast is All You Need For High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 54
  33. 2024IterComp: Iterative Composition-Aware Feedback Learning from Model Gallery for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 33
  34. 2023Divide, Evaluate, and Refine: Evaluating and Improving Text-to-Image Alignment with Iterative VQA Feedbackcited by 32
  35. 2024All Seeds Are Not Equal: Enhancing Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Reliable Random Seedscited by 31
  36. 2024Rare-to-Frequent: Unlocking Compositional Generation Power of Diffusion Models on Rare Concepts with LLM Guidancecited by 30
  37. 2024Improving Long-Text Alignment for Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 18
  38. 2024MuLan: Multimodal-LLM Agent for Progressive and Interactive Multi-Object Diffusioncited by 11

50 most cited of 53 All 53 (JSON)

Built on by

Cited by year (2026 to 14 Oct)

Citing papers per year: 2025: 2; 2026: 2.

4 papers.