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TARA: Token-Aware LoRA for Composable Personalization in Diffusion Models

arXiv 2508.08812 ↗First posted 12 Aug 2025cs.CVcited by 5

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Personalized text-to-image generation aims to synthesize novel images of a specific subject or style using only a few reference images. Recent methods based on Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) enable efficient single-concept customization by injecting lightweight, concept-specific adapters into pre-trained diffusion models. However, combining multiple LoRA modules for multi-concept generation often leads to identity missing and visual feature leakage. In this work, we identify two key issues behind these failures: (1) token-wise interference among different LoRA modules, and (2) spatial misalignment between the attention map of a rare token and its corresponding concept-specific region. To address these issues, we propose Token-Aware LoRA (TARA), which introduces a token mask to explicitly constrain each module to focus on its associated rare token to avoid interference, and a training objective that encourages the spatial attention of a rare token to align with its concept region. Our method enables training-free multi-concept composition by directly injecting multiple independently trained TARA modules at inference time. Experimental results demonstrate that TARA enables efficient multi-concept inference and effectively preserving the visual identity of each concept by avoiding mutual interference between LoRA modules. The code and models are available at https://github.com/YuqiPeng77/TARA.

Key facts. Cited by 5 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 30 of its 36 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 12 Aug 2025.

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30 of 36 references.

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  1. 2024Ada-adapter:Fast Few-shot Style Personlization of Diffusion Model with Pre-trained Image Encoder8 Jul
  2. 2024Identity Decoupling for Multi-Subject Personalization of Text-to-Image Models5 Apr
  3. 2024Infinite-ID: Identity-preserved Personalization via ID-semantics Decoupling Paradigm18 Mar
  4. 2024Diffusion Model-Based Image Editing: A Survey27 Feb
  5. 2023An Image is Worth Multiple Words: Multi-attribute Inversion for Constrained Text-to-Image Synthesis20 Nov
  6. 2023Subject-Diffusion:Open Domain Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-time Fine-tuning21 Jul
  7. 2023Mix-of-Show: Decentralized Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Concept Customization of Diffusion Models29 May
  8. 2023ProSpect: Prompt Spectrum for Attribute-Aware Personalization of Diffusion Models25 May
  9. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Feb
  10. 2022Multi-Concept Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion8 Dec
  11. 2022What the DAAM: Interpreting Stable Diffusion Using Cross Attention10 Oct
  12. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug

Other references · 18

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  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 21,076
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  4. 2019Exploring the Limits of Transfer Learning with a Unified Text-to-Text Transformercited by 14,599
  5. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,781
  6. 2021Emerging Properties in Self-Supervised Vision Transformerscited by 6,968
  7. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,356
  8. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
  9. 2022An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversioncited by 2,245
  10. 2023InstantBooth: Personalized Text-to-Image Generation without Test-Time Finetuningcited by 345
  11. 2023P+: Extended Textual Conditioning in Text-to-Image Generationcited by 242
  12. 2023ZipLoRA: Any Subject in Any Style by Effectively Merging LoRAscited by 194
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  1. 2024Implicit Style-Content Separation using B-LoRAcited by 135
  2. 2023One-for-All: Generalized LoRA for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuningcited by 85
  3. 2024VB-LoRA: Extreme Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning with Vector Bankscited by 52
  4. 2025K-LoRA: Unlocking Training-Free Fusion of Any Subject and Style LoRAscited by 48
  5. 2025LoRI: Reducing Cross-Task Interference in Multi-Task Low-Rank Adaptationcited by 19
  6. 2025GLAD: Generalizable Tuning for Vision-Language Modelscited by 3

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  2. 2024LoRACLR: Contrastive Adaptation for Customization of Diffusion Models
  3. 2024LoRA-Composer: Leveraging Low-Rank Adaptation for Multi-Concept Customization in Training-Free Diffusion Models
  4. 2026LILAC: Layer-Wise Independent LoRAs and Cascaded Conditioning for Multi-Concept Customization of Diffusion Models
  5. 2025T-LoRA: Single Image Diffusion Model Customization Without Overfitting
  6. 2025ConceptSplit: Decoupled Multi-Concept Personalization of Diffusion Models via Token-wise Adaptation and Attention Disentanglement
  7. 2024DiffLoRA: Generating Personalized Low-Rank Adaptation Weights with Diffusion
  8. 2026Discovering Undisclosed Concepts in LoRA Adapters for Diffusion-Based AIGC Models