Curriculum Group Policy Optimization: Adaptive Sampling for Unleashing the Potential of Text-to-Image Generation

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Baoteng, Zang, Xianghao, Wang, Xinran, Na, Xiangyu, He, Zhixiang, Sun, Hao, Zhang, Chi, He, Zhongjiang, Cao, Tianwei, Liang, Kongming, Ma, Zhanyu
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author Li, Baoteng
Zang, Xianghao
Wang, Xinran
Na, Xiangyu
He, Zhixiang
Sun, Hao
Zhang, Chi
He, Zhongjiang
Cao, Tianwei
Liang, Kongming
Ma, Zhanyu
author_facet Li, Baoteng
Zang, Xianghao
Wang, Xinran
Na, Xiangyu
He, Zhixiang
Sun, Hao
Zhang, Chi
He, Zhongjiang
Cao, Tianwei
Liang, Kongming
Ma, Zhanyu
contents Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. Meanwhile, reinforcement learning methods, particularly those based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), have attracted widespread attention and been successfully applied to T2I tasks. However, the uniform sampling strategy commonly used during training often ignores the match between sample difficulty and the model's current learning capability, leading to low training efficiency. We argue that improving training efficiency requires continuously prioritizing prompts that match the model's evolving capability and remain actively learnable. To this end, we propose Curriculum Group Policy Optimization (CGPO), an adaptive curriculum training framework. During training, each prompt produces a group of images scored by a reward model. We use the variance of group rewards as an online proxy for prompt inconsistency. A higher variance suggests that the model has partially captured the prompt requirements but has not yet achieved stable mastery. Such prompts are more likely to provide useful learning signals, so we increase their sampling probabilities accordingly. Additionally, to address data imbalance in multi-category datasets, we design a category calibration method based on proportional fairness optimization, which balances training difficulty across categories. Experiments on GenEval, T2I-CompBench++, and DPG Bench demonstrate that our framework effectively improves generation performance.
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spellingShingle Curriculum Group Policy Optimization: Adaptive Sampling for Unleashing the Potential of Text-to-Image Generation
Li, Baoteng
Zang, Xianghao
Wang, Xinran
Na, Xiangyu
He, Zhixiang
Sun, Hao
Zhang, Chi
He, Zhongjiang
Cao, Tianwei
Liang, Kongming
Ma, Zhanyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Text-to-Image (T2I) generation has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. Meanwhile, reinforcement learning methods, particularly those based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), have attracted widespread attention and been successfully applied to T2I tasks. However, the uniform sampling strategy commonly used during training often ignores the match between sample difficulty and the model's current learning capability, leading to low training efficiency. We argue that improving training efficiency requires continuously prioritizing prompts that match the model's evolving capability and remain actively learnable. To this end, we propose Curriculum Group Policy Optimization (CGPO), an adaptive curriculum training framework. During training, each prompt produces a group of images scored by a reward model. We use the variance of group rewards as an online proxy for prompt inconsistency. A higher variance suggests that the model has partially captured the prompt requirements but has not yet achieved stable mastery. Such prompts are more likely to provide useful learning signals, so we increase their sampling probabilities accordingly. Additionally, to address data imbalance in multi-category datasets, we design a category calibration method based on proportional fairness optimization, which balances training difficulty across categories. Experiments on GenEval, T2I-CompBench++, and DPG Bench demonstrate that our framework effectively improves generation performance.
title Curriculum Group Policy Optimization: Adaptive Sampling for Unleashing the Potential of Text-to-Image Generation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17807