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MCCD: Multi-Agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion for Complex Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv 2505.02648 ↗First posted 5 May 2025cs.CVcited by 23

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Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion models have shown excellent performance in text-to-image generation. Nevertheless, existing methods often suffer from performance bottlenecks when handling complex prompts that involve multiple objects, characteristics, and relations. Therefore, we propose a Multi-agent Collaboration-based Compositional Diffusion (MCCD) for text-to-image generation for complex scenes. Specifically, we design a multi-agent collaboration-based scene parsing module that generates an agent system comprising multiple agents with distinct tasks, utilizing MLLMs to extract various scene elements effectively. In addition, Hierarchical Compositional diffusion utilizes a Gaussian mask and filtering to refine bounding box regions and enhance objects through region enhancement, resulting in the accurate and high-fidelity generation of complex scenes. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that our MCCD significantly improves the performance of the baseline models in a training-free manner, providing a substantial advantage in complex scene generation.

Key facts. Cited by 23 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 38 of its 46 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 5 May 2025.

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  1. 2024LLM4GEN: Leveraging Semantic Representation of LLMs for Text-to-Image Generation30 Jun
  2. 2024ELLA: Equip Diffusion Models with LLM for Enhanced Semantic Alignment8 Mar
  3. 2024Mastering Text-to-Image Diffusion: Recaptioning, Planning, and Generating with Multimodal LLMs22 Jan
  4. 2023LLM Blueprint: Enabling Text-to-Image Generation with Complex and Detailed Prompts16 Oct
  5. 2023LayoutLLM-T2I: Eliciting Layout Guidance from LLM for Text-to-Image Generation9 Aug
  6. 2023BoxDiff: Text-to-Image Synthesis with Training-Free Box-Constrained Diffusion20 Jul
  7. 2023LLM-grounded Diffusion: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Large Language Models23 May
  8. 2023SUR-adapter: Enhancing Text-to-Image Pre-trained Diffusion Models with Large Language Models9 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
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  1. 2022Training-Free Structured Diffusion Guidance for Compositional Text-to-Image Synthesis9 Dec
  2. 2022Compositional Visual Generation with Composable Diffusion Models3 Jun
  3. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  4. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr
  5. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec

Other references · 21

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,456
  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 20,851
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,694
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  5. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,185
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  7. 2023BLIP-2: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training with Frozen Image Encoders and Large Language Modelscited by 6,069
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  9. 2023Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuningcited by 4,362
  10. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,290
  11. 2023MiniGPT-4: Enhancing Vision-Language Understanding with Advanced Large Language Modelscited by 2,689
  12. 2022Diffusion Models: A Comprehensive Survey of Methods and Applicationscited by 1,107
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  1. 2022Galactica: A Large Language Model for Sciencecited by 736
  2. 2021CogView: Mastering Text-to-Image Generation via Transformerscited by 691
  3. 2023Baichuan 2: Open Large-scale Language Modelscited by 664
  4. 2023Aligning Text-to-Image Models using Human Feedbackcited by 418
  5. 2023LayoutGPT: Compositional Visual Planning and Generation with Large Language Modelscited by 337
  6. 2022ReCo: Region-Controlled Text-to-Image Generationcited by 177
  7. 2023DreamSync: Aligning Text-to-Image Generation with Image Understanding Feedbackcited by 57
  8. 2023LLaVA-Interactive: An All-in-One Demo for Image Chat, Segmentation, Generation and Editingcited by 47
  9. 2024Parrot: Pareto-optimal Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning Framework for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 35

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  4. 2025MindWatcher: Toward Smarter Multimodal Tool-Integrated Reasoningcited by 6
  5. 2026coDrawAgents: A Multi-Agent Dialogue Framework for Compositional Image Generationcited by 6
  6. 2025EmoCtrl: Controllable Emotional Image Content Generationcited by 4
  7. 2026TP-Blend: Textual-Prompt Attention Pairing for Precise Object-Style Blending in Diffusion Modelscited by 4
  8. 2025From Image Generation to Infrastructure Design: a Multi-agent Pipeline for Street Design Generationcited by 3
  9. 2025Reasoning-Driven Amodal Completion: Collaborative Agents and Perceptual Evaluationcited by 1
  10. 2026PerfGuard: A Performance-Aware Agent for Visual Content Generationcited by 1
  11. 2026SIDiffAgent: Self-Improving Diffusion Agentcited by 1
  12. 2026Evaluating the Search Agent in a Parallel Worldcited by 1
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  7. 2026Training-Free Object-Background Compositional T2I via Dynamic Spatial Guidance and Multi-Path Pruningcited by 0
  8. 2026Agentic Visual Generation: From Generative Models to Agentic Controlcited by 0
  9. 2026Planning and Rendering in Concert: DeepFusion of Autoregressive Layouts and Diffusion for Visual Text Generationcited by 0
  10. 2026Panoptic Scene Program Diffusion Transformercited by 0
  11. 2026EvoGen-Harness: Learning Where and How to Evolve Image-Generation Harnessescited by 0

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