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Training-Free Multi-Style Fusion Through Reference-Based Adaptive Modulation

arXiv 2509.18602 ↗First posted 23 Sep 2025cs.CVcited by 7

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

Abstract (arXiv)

We propose Adaptive Multi-Style Fusion (AMSF), a reference-based training-free framework that enables controllable fusion of multiple reference styles in diffusion models. Most of the existing reference-based methods are limited by (a) acceptance of only one style image, thus prohibiting hybrid aesthetics and scalability to more styles, and (b) lack of a principled mechanism to balance several stylistic influences. AMSF mitigates these challenges by encoding all style images and textual hints with a semantic token decomposition module that is adaptively injected into every cross-attention layer of an frozen diffusion model. A similarity-aware re-weighting module then recalibrates, at each denoising step, the attention allocated to every style component, yielding balanced and user-controllable blends without any fine-tuning or external adapters. Both qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that AMSF produces multi-style fusion results that consistently outperform the state-of-the-art approaches, while its fusion design scales seamlessly to two or more styles. These capabilities position AMSF as a practical step toward expressive multi-style generation in diffusion models.

Key facts. Cited by 7 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 31 of its 34 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 23 Sep 2025.

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31 of 34 references.

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  1. 2023Style Injection in Diffusion: A Training-free Approach for Adapting Large-scale Diffusion Models for Style Transfer
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  3. 2024Tuning-Free Adaptive Style Incorporation for Structure-Consistent Text-Driven Style Transfer
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