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DCText: Scheduled Attention Masking for Visual Text Generation via Divide-and-Conquer Strategy

arXiv 2512.01302 ↗First posted 1 Dec 2025cs.CVcited by 3

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Abstract (arXiv)

Despite recent text-to-image models achieving highfidelity text rendering, they still struggle with long or multiple texts due to diluted global attention. We propose DCText, a training-free visual text generation method that adopts a divide-and-conquer strategy, leveraging the reliable short-text generation of Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers. Our method first decomposes a prompt by extracting and dividing the target text, then assigns each to a designated region. To accurately render each segment within their regions while preserving overall image coherence, we introduce two attention masks - Text-Focus and Context-Expansion - applied sequentially during denoising. Additionally, Localized Noise Initialization further improves text accuracy and region alignment without increasing computational cost. Extensive experiments on single- and multisentence benchmarks show that DCText achieves the best text accuracy without compromising image quality while also delivering the lowest generation latency.

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  1. 2025UNCAGE: Contrastive Attention Guidance for Masked Generative Transformers in Text-to-Image Generation
  2. 2025TextGuider: Training-Free Guidance for Text Rendering via Attention Alignment
  3. 2026FreeText: Training-Free Text Rendering in Diffusion Transformers via Attention Localization and Spectral Glyph Injection
  4. 2026FocusDiT: Masking Queries in Diffusion Transformers for Fine-grained Image Generation
  5. 2025TextInVision: Text and Prompt Complexity Driven Visual Text Generation Benchmark
  6. 2023Brush Your Text: Synthesize Any Scene Text on Images via Diffusion Model
  7. 2026MRT: Masked Region Transformer for Layered Image Generation and Editing at Scale
  8. 2026UltraText Bench: A Comprehensive Bilingual Benchmark for Evaluating Visual Text Rendering in Image Generation