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InstanceAssemble: Layout-Aware Image Generation via Instance Assembling Attention

arXiv 2509.16691 ↗First posted 20 Sep 2025cs.CVcited by 10

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

Abstract (arXiv)

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating high-quality images. Recent advancements in Layout-to-Image (L2I) generation have leveraged positional conditions and textual descriptions to facilitate precise and controllable image synthesis. Despite overall progress, current L2I methods still exhibit suboptimal performance. Therefore, we propose InstanceAssemble, a novel architecture that incorporates layout conditions via instance-assembling attention, enabling position control with bounding boxes (bbox) and multimodal content control including texts and additional visual content. Our method achieves flexible adaption to existing DiT-based T2I models through light-weighted LoRA modules. Additionally, we propose a Layout-to-Image benchmark, Denselayout, a comprehensive benchmark for layout-to-image generation, containing 5k images with 90k instances in total. We further introduce Layout Grounding Score (LGS), an interpretable evaluation metric to more precisely assess the accuracy of L2I generation. Experiments demonstrate that our InstanceAssemble method achieves state-of-the-art performance under complex layout conditions, while exhibiting strong compatibility with diverse style LoRA modules. The code and pretrained models are publicly available at https://github.com/FireRedTeam/InstanceAssemble.

Key facts. Cited by 10 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 59 of its 65 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 20 Sep 2025.

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  4. 2024HiCo: Hierarchical Controllable Diffusion Model for Layout-to-image Generation18 Oct
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  7. 2024Be Yourself: Bounded Attention for Multi-Subject Text-to-Image Generation25 Mar
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  9. 2024Box It to Bind It: Unified Layout Control and Attribute Binding in T2I Diffusion Models27 Feb
  10. 2024InstanceDiffusion: Instance-level Control for Image Generation5 Feb
  11. 2024Adversarial Supervision Makes Layout-to-Image Diffusion Models Thrive16 Jan
  12. 2023Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following28 Nov
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  1. 2023Check, Locate, Rectify: A Training-Free Layout Calibration System for Text-to-Image Generation27 Nov
  2. 2023SSMG: Spatial-Semantic Map Guided Diffusion Model for Free-form Layout-to-Image Generation20 Aug
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  4. 2023BoxDiff: Text-to-Image Synthesis with Training-Free Box-Constrained Diffusion20 Jul
  5. 2023Zero-shot spatial layout conditioning for text-to-image diffusion models23 Jun
  6. 2023Grounded Text-to-Image Synthesis with Attention Refocusing8 Jun
  7. 2023LayoutDiffusion: Controllable Diffusion Model for Layout-to-image Generation30 Mar
  8. 2023Freestyle Layout-to-Image Synthesis25 Mar
  9. 2023LayoutDiffuse: Adapting Foundational Diffusion Models for Layout-to-Image Generation16 Feb
  10. 2023MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation16 Feb
  11. 2023Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Feb
  12. 2023GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation17 Jan
  13. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May
  14. 2022Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents13 Apr

Other references · 33

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  21. 2024Rethinking The Training And Evaluation of Rich-Context Layout-to-Image Generationcited by 8

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