InstanceGen: Image Generation with Instance-level Instructions
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Abstract (arXiv)
Despite rapid advancements in the capabilities of generative models, pretrained text-to-image models still struggle in capturing the semantics conveyed by complex prompts that compound multiple objects and instance-level attributes. Consequently, we are witnessing growing interests in integrating additional structural constraints, typically in the form of coarse bounding boxes, to better guide the generation process in such challenging cases. In this work, we take the idea of structural guidance a step further by making the observation that contemporary image generation models can directly provide a plausible fine-grained structural initialization. We propose a technique that couples this image-based structural guidance with LLM-based instance-level instructions, yielding output images that adhere to all parts of the text prompt, including object counts, instance-level attributes, and spatial relations between instances.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 3; 2026: 3.
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- 20263D Space as a Scratchpad for Editable Text-to-Image Generation21 Jan 2026
- 2026LooseRoPE: Content-aware Attention Manipulation for Semantic Harmonization8 Jan 2026
- 2025InstanceV: Instance-Level Video Generation28 Nov 2025
- 2025TTOM: Test-Time Optimization and Memorization for Compositional Video Generation9 Oct 2025
- 2025Data-Driven Loss Functions for Inference-Time Optimization in Text-to-Image2 Sep 2025