# DLSF: Dual-Layer Synergistic Fusion for High-Fidelity Image Syn-thesis

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13388 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.13388/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 23 of its 35 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 16 Jul 2025.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [Image generation, text-to-image and editing](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/image-generation-text-to-image-and-editing/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 23 of 23)

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- [U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.04597/) (2015)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020)
- [Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.03585/) (2015)
- [Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11487/) (2022)
- [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022)
- [Feature Pyramid Networks for Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.03144/) (2016)
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- [CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.06521/) (2018)
- [SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.01073/) (2021)
- [LAION-400M: Open Dataset of CLIP-Filtered 400 Million Image-Text Pairs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.02114/) (2021)
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- [Text-to-image Diffusion Models in Generative AI: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.07909/) (2023)
- [Diffusion Model-Based Image Editing: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.17525/) (2024)
- [Attentional Feature Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2009.14082/) (2020)

## Abstract (arXiv)

With the rapid advancement of diffusion-based generative models, Stable Diffusion (SD) has emerged as a state-of-the-art framework for high-fidelity im-age synthesis. However, existing SD models suffer from suboptimal feature aggregation, leading to in-complete semantic alignment and loss of fine-grained details, especially in highly textured and complex scenes. To address these limitations, we propose a novel dual-latent integration framework that en-hances feature interactions between the base latent and refined latent representations. Our approach em-ploys a feature concatenation strategy followed by an adaptive fusion module, which can be instantiated as either (i) an Adaptive Global Fusion (AGF) for hier-archical feature harmonization, or (ii) a Dynamic Spatial Fusion (DSF) for spatially-aware refinement. This design enables more effective cross-latent com-munication, preserving both global coherence and local texture fidelity. Our GitHub page: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/MVA2025-22 .
