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Text-to-image models generate more varied images without losing quality

TokenRepel: Generating Diverse Image Sets Without Compromising Quality

Abstract: We present an inference-time approach that enhances the visual diversity of image sets generated by text-to-image models, without compromising the average image quality. Our method leverages the intrinsic geometry of hidden representations in pretrained models to diversify images generated from the same prompt. First, we introduce a token repulsion mechanism that increases the angle between feature tokens across samples. It takes a negative Riemannian gradient step on a von Mises-Fisher mixture distribution of tokens on the unit hypersphere. Second, to preserve the quality of each output image, we propose a token density preservation mechanism that projects the repulsion-induced prediction change onto a half-space aligned with the model's score direction. This encourages the updates to remain within the high-density regions learned by the generative model. We further extend this mechanism to the output of each intermediate layer, enabling finer-grained iterative guidance. We evaluate our method on three types of pretrained text-to-image models. Experiments show substantial gains in visual diversity under identical prompts, while maintaining a comparable level of image fidelity.

Thu 29 OctComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Sometimes, when computers make pictures from words, they create many images that all look very similar. The authors found a way to help these models produce a wider variety of images for the same text prompt while keeping the pictures looking good. They do this by making the computer representations inside the model push away from each other so the images differ more. They also make sure that the changes don’t make the pictures worse by keeping the computer’s predictions in a high-quality zone. This method works well with different types of text-to-image models.
Open → 2610.39913v1

CommerceGen-Studio generates high-quality ecommerce product images fast

CommerceGen-Studio: An End-to-End Framework for Commercial-Grade Main-Image Generation

Abstract: We present CommerceGen-Studio, an end-to-end framework for generating commercial-grade main images for e-commerce Stock Keeping Units (SKUs). Our framework is organized along a three-stage pipeline of information extraction, semantic rewriting, and multi-condition generation: Prompt-Eval-Refine-Loop Agent (PERL-Agent) distills heterogeneous SKU metadata into concise selling-point text lists through an iterative closed loop of VLM and LLM roles scored by a reference-free rubric. Layout Thinker Optimization (LTO) aligns the rewriter with both caption and rendered-image quality via alternating domain-specific policy optimization. SKU-DiT, trained under Reinforce-Distill-Reinforce (RDR) progressive training, conditions jointly on the white-background product image, the trademark crop, and the structured layout to hold subject fidelity, trademark integrity, and character-level text accuracy together. The framework runs in production at a scale of millions of main images per day with a latency of a few seconds per image, which we believe makes it among the first systems of this kind to operate at commercial scale. We also release CommerceGen-Bench, a benchmark of hard cases collected from live traffic across all product categories. On it, our framework achieves the highest overall scores among the evaluated open-source baselines on both editing tracks, with and without prompt enhancement. It also matches much larger closed-source models, and beats several of them at Instruction Following and Product Integration - the two properties that determine whether an image can be published.

Wed 14 OctComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Creating main images for ecommerce products is important but challenging to do quickly and well at scale. The authors introduce CommerceGen-Studio, a three-step system that extracts product information, rewrites it into clear selling points, and generates images that keep brand details and text accurate. Their system can produce millions of these images each day with only a few seconds per image. They also created a hard test set and showed their method outperforms other open tools and matches some bigger closed models in making publishable product images.
Open → 2610.20603v1

Visual Jev rewards improve multi-subject image generation verification

Visual Jev Rewards: Reference-Bound Verification for Multi-Subject Image Generation

Abstract: Multi-subject image generation requires rewards that verify whether requested attributes, actions, and relations hold for the specified reference subjects. Subject presence alone does not establish that the correct subjects participate in a requested interaction. We present reference-bound Visual Jev rewards that turn these visual decisions into generator training signals. Each subject-related question receives a positive label only when the requested condition and the relevant reference identities hold jointly. We construct fixed questions offline, train a Qwen3.5-4B verifier with binary supervision, and directly read Yes probabilities from its language-model head. Their mean supplies a GRPO reward while retaining individual judgments for inspection. Using 200 MICo-150K training tasks and 30 updates, the framework raises a GPT-5.4 composite score from 41.78 to 52.50 on a manually selected 897-task MICo-Bench subset; direct 27B rewards yield 51.84. Each reward is tested in one GRPO run, and offline human evaluation does not establish a statistically significant advantage over direct scoring. The study provides an initial implementation and evaluation of Visual Jev as a reference-bound reward for multi-subject image generation.

Wed 7 OctComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning
The gist
Generating images with multiple specific people doing certain actions or having relationships is tricky. The authors created a way to check if the generated image truly matches the requested subjects and their interactions. They trained a model to give yes/no answers about whether the right people are doing the right things together, which helps improve image generation. Their method raised performance scores on a test set but did not show clear gains over simpler scoring methods in human evaluations. This work offers an initial approach to better verify complex image content during generation.
Open → 2610.09328v1

RefineEdit lets users fix parts of AI image edits without retraining

Refinement Is Inherently Editable: Training-Free Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Generative Refinement Network

Abstract: Text-guided image editing must introduce the requested changes while preserving unrelated source content. Diffusion-based editors rely on spatial controls whose inaccuracies can leave edits incomplete or alter unrelated regions. Causal autoregressive editors face a further constraint: their fixed decoding order limits revision of earlier decisions. We introduce RefineEdit, a training-free prompt-to-prompt image editing framework built on a Generative Refinement Network. Our key idea is to couple edit localization with content generation through the global refinement of binary image codes, allowing editing evidence to be reassessed as the image evolves. RefineEdit initializes an editing branch from an intermediate source state, reusing the emerging layout. We compare the probabilities assigned by the two branches to the same source-sampled bits, using their signed differences to select editable positions and bits. Selected bits follow editing refinement, while the remaining bits copy the evolving source state. To stabilize editing across refinement steps, adaptive spatial freezing limits unnecessary mask expansion, while finite bit locking keeps recently selected bits editable. The framework requires no additional training, external masks, or attention control. Across nine editing categories of PIE-Bench, RefineEdit achieves the best background-preservation scores in PSNR, LPIPS, MSE and SSIM, together with the highest whole-image and edited-region CLIP scores among the evaluated methods.

Thu 17 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition
The gist
Editing AI-generated images can be tricky because some methods can only change parts of the image in a fixed order or need extra tools like masks. The authors present RefineEdit, a new way to edit images generated by AI that doesn’t need extra training or complicated controls. It works by carefully deciding which parts of the image code to change while keeping other parts the same, allowing easy revisions even after some changes have been made. This method preserves the parts of the image you don’t want to change better than current approaches.
Open → 2609.20633v1

Text to image generation gain new control over styles and concepts

AcFlow: Controlling Text-to-Image Diffusion Transformers via Learned Conditional Activation Flow

Abstract: Text-to-image diffusion transformers (DiTs) are powerful generators, yet direct prompting provides limited control interface for style intensity and can fail to suppress unwanted concepts. To enable these controls, we introduce AcFlow, an inference-time controller that transports intermediate layer image-token activations through a learned concept-conditioned velocity field while keeping the base DiT frozen. A textual concept description specifies the desired intervention, while the integration horizon provides a continuous control parameter. The field produces token-varying, activation-dependent updates. With parameters shared across concepts within each task family, the field supports fine-grained descriptions and generalizes to concepts unseen during training without per-concept fitting. On style control, AcFlow achieves the best style--content trade-off among the evaluated baselines in the high-style-alignment regime. At a fixed operating point, AcFlow attains style--content alignment of 0.5365/0.2860, compared with 0.4397/0.2684 for the baseline with the highest style alignment. Qualitative results demonstrate suppression of diverse concepts, including cases where direct prompting fails. Our analyses support the learned velocity field as an adaptive control mechanism, with update directions varying across tokens and depend on their activation states. Our code is available at https://github.com/Nove1yst/AcFlow.

Wed 9 SeptComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Diffusion transformers for turning text into images are very good but hard to control in how strongly a style shows or what unwanted parts appear. The authors created AcFlow, a tool that changes intermediate image data inside the model during its run, guided by a description of what to change. AcFlow can smoothly adjust style intensity and better remove unwanted parts without retraining the model or needing new data for each style. Tests show AcFlow does better than other methods at balancing style and content, and it works even for styles it has never seen before.
Open → 2609.10723v1