Self-Corrected Image Generation with Explainable Latent Rewards

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Autori principali: Luo, Yinyi, Gokhale, Hrishikesh, Savvides, Marios, Wang, Jindong, He, Shengfeng
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author Luo, Yinyi
Gokhale, Hrishikesh
Savvides, Marios
Wang, Jindong
He, Shengfeng
author_facet Luo, Yinyi
Gokhale, Hrishikesh
Savvides, Marios
Wang, Jindong
He, Shengfeng
contents Despite significant progress in text-to-image generation, aligning outputs with complex prompts remains challenging, particularly for fine-grained semantics and spatial relations. This difficulty stems from the feed-forward nature of generation, which requires anticipating alignment without fully understanding the output. In contrast, evaluating generated images is more tractable. Motivated by this asymmetry, we propose xLARD, a self-correcting framework that uses multimodal large language models to guide generation through Explainable LAtent RewarDs. xLARD introduces a lightweight corrector that refines latent representations based on structured feedback from model-generated references. A key component is a differentiable mapping from latent edits to interpretable reward signals, enabling continuous latent-level guidance from non-differentiable image-level evaluations. This mechanism allows the model to understand, assess, and correct itself during generation. Experiments across diverse generation and editing tasks show that xLARD improves semantic alignment and visual fidelity while maintaining generative priors. Code is available at https://yinyiluo.github.io/xLARD/.
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spellingShingle Self-Corrected Image Generation with Explainable Latent Rewards
Luo, Yinyi
Gokhale, Hrishikesh
Savvides, Marios
Wang, Jindong
He, Shengfeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Despite significant progress in text-to-image generation, aligning outputs with complex prompts remains challenging, particularly for fine-grained semantics and spatial relations. This difficulty stems from the feed-forward nature of generation, which requires anticipating alignment without fully understanding the output. In contrast, evaluating generated images is more tractable. Motivated by this asymmetry, we propose xLARD, a self-correcting framework that uses multimodal large language models to guide generation through Explainable LAtent RewarDs. xLARD introduces a lightweight corrector that refines latent representations based on structured feedback from model-generated references. A key component is a differentiable mapping from latent edits to interpretable reward signals, enabling continuous latent-level guidance from non-differentiable image-level evaluations. This mechanism allows the model to understand, assess, and correct itself during generation. Experiments across diverse generation and editing tasks show that xLARD improves semantic alignment and visual fidelity while maintaining generative priors. Code is available at https://yinyiluo.github.io/xLARD/.
title Self-Corrected Image Generation with Explainable Latent Rewards
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24965