Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation

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Autores principales: Qu, Leigang, Wang, Wenjie, Li, Yongqi, Zhang, Hanwang, Nie, Liqiang, Chua, Tat-Seng
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author Qu, Leigang
Wang, Wenjie
Li, Yongqi
Zhang, Hanwang
Nie, Liqiang
Chua, Tat-Seng
author_facet Qu, Leigang
Wang, Wenjie
Li, Yongqi
Zhang, Hanwang
Nie, Liqiang
Chua, Tat-Seng
contents Despite advancements in text-to-image generation (T2I), prior methods often face text-image misalignment problems such as relation confusion in generated images. Existing solutions involve cross-attention manipulation for better compositional understanding or integrating large language models for improved layout planning. However, the inherent alignment capabilities of T2I models are still inadequate. By reviewing the link between generative and discriminative modeling, we posit that T2I models' discriminative abilities may reflect their text-image alignment proficiency during generation. In this light, we advocate bolstering the discriminative abilities of T2I models to achieve more precise text-to-image alignment for generation. We present a discriminative adapter built on T2I models to probe their discriminative abilities on two representative tasks and leverage discriminative fine-tuning to improve their text-image alignment. As a bonus of the discriminative adapter, a self-correction mechanism can leverage discriminative gradients to better align generated images to text prompts during inference. Comprehensive evaluations across three benchmark datasets, including both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios, demonstrate our method's superior generation performance. Meanwhile, it achieves state-of-the-art discriminative performance on the two discriminative tasks compared to other generative models.
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spellingShingle Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
Qu, Leigang
Wang, Wenjie
Li, Yongqi
Zhang, Hanwang
Nie, Liqiang
Chua, Tat-Seng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Multimedia
Despite advancements in text-to-image generation (T2I), prior methods often face text-image misalignment problems such as relation confusion in generated images. Existing solutions involve cross-attention manipulation for better compositional understanding or integrating large language models for improved layout planning. However, the inherent alignment capabilities of T2I models are still inadequate. By reviewing the link between generative and discriminative modeling, we posit that T2I models' discriminative abilities may reflect their text-image alignment proficiency during generation. In this light, we advocate bolstering the discriminative abilities of T2I models to achieve more precise text-to-image alignment for generation. We present a discriminative adapter built on T2I models to probe their discriminative abilities on two representative tasks and leverage discriminative fine-tuning to improve their text-image alignment. As a bonus of the discriminative adapter, a self-correction mechanism can leverage discriminative gradients to better align generated images to text prompts during inference. Comprehensive evaluations across three benchmark datasets, including both in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios, demonstrate our method's superior generation performance. Meanwhile, it achieves state-of-the-art discriminative performance on the two discriminative tasks compared to other generative models.
title Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Multimedia
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04321