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AgentComp: From Agentic Reasoning to Compositional Mastery in Text-to-Image Models

arXiv 2512.09081 ↗First posted 9 Dec 2025cs.CVcited by 5

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Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-image generative models have achieved remarkable visual quality but still struggle with compositionality-accurately capturing object relationships, attribute bindings, and fine-grained details in prompts. A key limitation is that models are not explicitly trained to differentiate between compositionally similar prompts and images, resulting in outputs that are close to the intended description yet deviate in fine-grained details. To address this, we propose AgentComp, a framework that explicitly trains models to better differentiate such compositional variations and enhance their reasoning ability. AgentComp leverages the reasoning and tool-use capabilities of large language models equipped with image generation, editing, and VQA tools to autonomously construct compositional datasets. Using these datasets, we apply an agentic preference optimization method to fine-tune text-to-image models, enabling them to better distinguish between compositionally similar samples and resulting in overall stronger compositional generation ability. AgentComp achieves state-of-the-art results on compositionality benchmarks such as T2I-CompBench, without compromising image quality-a common drawback in prior approaches-and even generalizes to other capabilities not explicitly trained for, such as text rendering.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Multimodal reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 21 of its 56 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 9 Dec 2025.

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  1. 2025T2I-R1: Reinforcing Image Generation with Collaborative Semantic-level and Token-level CoT1 May
  2. 2023MM-REACT: Prompting ChatGPT for Multimodal Reasoning and Action20 Mar
  3. 2023Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models8 Mar

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  2. 2026M3: High-fidelity Text-to-Image Generation via Multi-Modal, Multi-Agent and Multi-Round Visual Reasoning
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  6. 2026GenAgent: Scaling Text-to-Image Generation via Agentic Multimodal Reasoning
  7. 2026Iterative Refinement Improves Compositional Image Generation
  8. 2025Easier Painting Than Thinking: Can Text-to-Image Models Set the Stage, but Not Direct the Play?