Consistency-diversity-realism Pareto fronts of conditional image generative models

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Main Authors: Astolfi, Pietro, Careil, Marlene, Hall, Melissa, Mañas, Oscar, Muckley, Matthew, Verbeek, Jakob, Soriano, Adriana Romero, Drozdzal, Michal
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author Astolfi, Pietro
Careil, Marlene
Hall, Melissa
Mañas, Oscar
Muckley, Matthew
Verbeek, Jakob
Soriano, Adriana Romero
Drozdzal, Michal
author_facet Astolfi, Pietro
Careil, Marlene
Hall, Melissa
Mañas, Oscar
Muckley, Matthew
Verbeek, Jakob
Soriano, Adriana Romero
Drozdzal, Michal
contents Building world models that accurately and comprehensively represent the real world is the utmost aspiration for conditional image generative models as it would enable their use as world simulators. For these models to be successful world models, they should not only excel at image quality and prompt-image consistency but also ensure high representation diversity. However, current research in generative models mostly focuses on creative applications that are predominantly concerned with human preferences of image quality and aesthetics. We note that generative models have inference time mechanisms - or knobs - that allow the control of generation consistency, quality, and diversity. In this paper, we use state-of-the-art text-to-image and image-and-text-to-image models and their knobs to draw consistency-diversity-realism Pareto fronts that provide a holistic view on consistency-diversity-realism multi-objective. Our experiments suggest that realism and consistency can both be improved simultaneously; however there exists a clear tradeoff between realism/consistency and diversity. By looking at Pareto optimal points, we note that earlier models are better at representation diversity and worse in consistency/realism, and more recent models excel in consistency/realism while decreasing significantly the representation diversity. By computing Pareto fronts on a geodiverse dataset, we find that the first version of latent diffusion models tends to perform better than more recent models in all axes of evaluation, and there exist pronounced consistency-diversity-realism disparities between geographical regions. Overall, our analysis clearly shows that there is no best model and the choice of model should be determined by the downstream application. With this analysis, we invite the research community to consider Pareto fronts as an analytical tool to measure progress towards world models.
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spellingShingle Consistency-diversity-realism Pareto fronts of conditional image generative models
Astolfi, Pietro
Careil, Marlene
Hall, Melissa
Mañas, Oscar
Muckley, Matthew
Verbeek, Jakob
Soriano, Adriana Romero
Drozdzal, Michal
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Building world models that accurately and comprehensively represent the real world is the utmost aspiration for conditional image generative models as it would enable their use as world simulators. For these models to be successful world models, they should not only excel at image quality and prompt-image consistency but also ensure high representation diversity. However, current research in generative models mostly focuses on creative applications that are predominantly concerned with human preferences of image quality and aesthetics. We note that generative models have inference time mechanisms - or knobs - that allow the control of generation consistency, quality, and diversity. In this paper, we use state-of-the-art text-to-image and image-and-text-to-image models and their knobs to draw consistency-diversity-realism Pareto fronts that provide a holistic view on consistency-diversity-realism multi-objective. Our experiments suggest that realism and consistency can both be improved simultaneously; however there exists a clear tradeoff between realism/consistency and diversity. By looking at Pareto optimal points, we note that earlier models are better at representation diversity and worse in consistency/realism, and more recent models excel in consistency/realism while decreasing significantly the representation diversity. By computing Pareto fronts on a geodiverse dataset, we find that the first version of latent diffusion models tends to perform better than more recent models in all axes of evaluation, and there exist pronounced consistency-diversity-realism disparities between geographical regions. Overall, our analysis clearly shows that there is no best model and the choice of model should be determined by the downstream application. With this analysis, we invite the research community to consider Pareto fronts as an analytical tool to measure progress towards world models.
title Consistency-diversity-realism Pareto fronts of conditional image generative models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10429