Resolving the Identity Crisis in Text-to-Image Generation

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Main Authors: Borse, Shubhankar, Farhadzadeh, Farzad, Hayat, Munawar, Porikli, Fatih
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author Borse, Shubhankar
Farhadzadeh, Farzad
Hayat, Munawar
Porikli, Fatih
author_facet Borse, Shubhankar
Farhadzadeh, Farzad
Hayat, Munawar
Porikli, Fatih
contents State-of-the-art text-to-image models suffer from a persistent identity crisis when generating scenes with multiple humans: producing duplicate faces, merging identities, and miscounting individuals. We present DisCo (Reinforcement with Diversity Constraints), a reinforcement learning framework that directly optimizes identity diversity both within images and across groups of generated samples. DisCo fine-tunes flow-matching models using Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), guided by a compositional reward that: (i) penalizes facial similarity within images, (ii) discourages identity repetition across samples, (iii) enforces accurate person counts, and (iv) preserves visual fidelity and prompt alignment via human preference scores. A single-stage curriculum stabilizes training as prompt complexity increases. Importantly, this method does not require any real data. On the DiverseHumans Testset, DisCo achieves 98.6% Unique Face Accuracy and near-perfect Global Identity Spread, outperforming open-source and proprietary models (e.g., Gemini, GPT-Image) while maintaining perceptual quality. Our results establish cross-sample diversity as a critical axis for resolving identity collapse, positioning DisCo as a scalable, annotation-free solution for multi-human image synthesis. Project page: https://qualcomm-ai-research.github.io/disco/
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spellingShingle Resolving the Identity Crisis in Text-to-Image Generation
Borse, Shubhankar
Farhadzadeh, Farzad
Hayat, Munawar
Porikli, Fatih
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
State-of-the-art text-to-image models suffer from a persistent identity crisis when generating scenes with multiple humans: producing duplicate faces, merging identities, and miscounting individuals. We present DisCo (Reinforcement with Diversity Constraints), a reinforcement learning framework that directly optimizes identity diversity both within images and across groups of generated samples. DisCo fine-tunes flow-matching models using Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), guided by a compositional reward that: (i) penalizes facial similarity within images, (ii) discourages identity repetition across samples, (iii) enforces accurate person counts, and (iv) preserves visual fidelity and prompt alignment via human preference scores. A single-stage curriculum stabilizes training as prompt complexity increases. Importantly, this method does not require any real data. On the DiverseHumans Testset, DisCo achieves 98.6% Unique Face Accuracy and near-perfect Global Identity Spread, outperforming open-source and proprietary models (e.g., Gemini, GPT-Image) while maintaining perceptual quality. Our results establish cross-sample diversity as a critical axis for resolving identity collapse, positioning DisCo as a scalable, annotation-free solution for multi-human image synthesis. Project page: https://qualcomm-ai-research.github.io/disco/
title Resolving the Identity Crisis in Text-to-Image Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01399