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VSC: Visual Search Compositional Text-to-Image Diffusion Model

arXiv 2505.01104 ↗First posted 2 May 2025cs.CVcited by 7

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities in generating realistic visuals from natural-language prompts, yet they often struggle with accurately binding attributes to corresponding objects, especially in prompts containing multiple attribute-object pairs. This challenge primarily arises from the limitations of commonly used text encoders, such as CLIP, which can fail to encode complex linguistic relationships and modifiers effectively. Existing approaches have attempted to mitigate these issues through attention map control during inference and the use of layout information or fine-tuning during training, yet they face performance drops with increased prompt complexity. In this work, we introduce a novel compositional generation method that leverages pairwise image embeddings to improve attribute-object binding. Our approach decomposes complex prompts into sub-prompts, generates corresponding images, and computes visual prototypes that fuse with text embeddings to enhance representation. By applying segmentation-based localization training, we address cross-attention misalignment, achieving improved accuracy in binding multiple attributes to objects. Our approaches outperform existing compositional text-to-image diffusion models on the benchmark T2I CompBench, achieving better image quality, evaluated by humans, and emerging robustness under scaling number of binding pairs in the prompt.

Key facts. Cited by 7 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 36 of its 43 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 2 May 2025.

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36 of 43 references.

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  1. 2024Be Yourself: Bounded Attention for Multi-Subject Text-to-Image Generation25 Mar
  2. 2024Diffusion Lens: Interpreting Text Encoders in Text-to-Image Pipelines9 Mar
  3. 2023CONFORM: Contrast is All You Need For High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Diffusion Models11 Dec
  4. 2023A-STAR: Test-time Attention Segregation and Retention for Text-to-image Synthesis26 Jun
  5. 2023Linguistic Binding in Diffusion Models: Enhancing Attribute Correspondence through Attention Map Alignment15 Jun
  6. 2023Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Map Control of Diffusion Models23 May
  7. 2023FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-Subject Image Generation with Localized Attention17 May
  8. 2023LayoutDiffusion: Controllable Diffusion Model for Layout-to-image Generation30 Mar
  9. 2023Collage Diffusion1 Mar
  10. 2023Encoder-based Domain Tuning for Fast Personalization of Text-to-Image Models23 Feb
  11. 2023Attend-and-Excite: Attention-Based Semantic Guidance for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models31 Jan
  12. 2022Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis9 Dec
5 more
  1. 2022Multi-Concept Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion8 Dec
  2. 2022SpaText: Spatio-Textual Representation for Controllable Image Generation25 Nov
  3. 2022Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models17 Nov
  4. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  5. 2022Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Models3 Jun

Other references · 19

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,744
  2. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  3. 2024Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,181
  4. 2021Masked-attention Mask Transformer for Universal Image Segmentationcited by 2,351
  5. 2022An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversioncited by 2,245
  6. 2024Eyes Wide Shut? Exploring the Visual Shortcomings of Multimodal LLMscited by 735
  7. 2023ELITE: Encoding Visual Concepts into Textual Embeddings for Customized Text-to-Image Generationcited by 416
  8. 2023LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Modelscited by 347
  9. 2023InstantBooth: Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-Time Finetuningcited by 345
  10. 2023Compositional Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Large Multimodal Modelscited by 164
  11. 2022Does CLIP Bind Concepts? Probing Compositionality in Large Image Modelscited by 102
  12. 2023Compositional Abilities Emerge Multiplicatively: Exploring Diffusion Models on a Synthetic Taskcited by 93
7 more
  1. 2024Understanding the Limits of Vision Language Models Through the Lens of the Binding Problemcited by 75
  2. 2022Teaching Structured Vision&Language Concepts to Vision&Language Modelscited by 71
  3. 2019Learning Canonical Representations for Scene Graph to Image Generationcited by 60
  4. 2023Incorporating Structured Representations into Pretrained Vision & Language Models Using Scene Graphscited by 39
  5. 2024Compositional Text-to-Image Generation with Dense Blob Representationscited by 38
  6. 2024Self-MoE: Towards Compositional Large Language Models with Self-Specialized Expertscited by 23
  7. 2023X&Fuse: Fusing Visual Information in Text-to-Image Generationcited by 6

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  1. 2024Improving Compositional Attribute Binding in Text-to-Image Generative Models via Enhanced Text Embeddings
  2. 2025Object-level Visual Prompts for Compositional Image Generation
  3. 2024Magnet: We Never Know How Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Work, Until We Learn How Vision-Language Models Function
  4. 2026ORCA: Hunting Compositional Failures in Text-to-Image Diffusion
  5. 2024Object-Attribute Binding in Text-to-Image Generation: Evaluation and Control
  6. 2024Progressive Compositionality in Text-to-Image Generative Models
  7. 2026Text-to-Image Models Need Less from Text Encoders Than You Think
  8. 2025TextInVision: Text and Prompt Complexity Driven Visual Text Generation Benchmark