cs.CVMar 12, 2026

Naïve PAINE: Lightweight Text-to-Image Generation Improvement with Prompt Evaluation

Authors: Joong Ho KimNicholas ThaiSouhardya Saha DipDong LaoKeith G. Mills

Organizations: LSU ATHENA Lab, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A. · LSU Vision Lab, Baton Rouge, LA, U.S.A.

Abstract

Text-to-Image (T2I) generation is primarily driven by Diffusion Models (DM) which rely on random Gaussian noise. Thus, like playing the slots at a casino, a DM will produce different results given the same user-defined inputs. This imposes a gambler's burden: To perform multiple generation cycles to obtain a satisfactory result. However, even though DMs use stochastic sampling to seed generation, the distribution of generated content quality highly depends on the prompt and the generative ability of a DM with respect to it. To account for this, we propose Naïve PAINE for improving the generative quality of Diffusion Models by leveraging T2I preference benchmarks. We directly predict the numerical quality of an image from the initial noise and given prompt. Naïve PAINE then selects a handful of quality noises and forwards them to the DM for generation. Further, Naïve PAINE provides feedback on the DM generative quality given the prompt and is lightweight enough to seamlessly fit into existing DM pipelines. Experimental results demonstrate that Naïve PAINE outperforms existing approaches on several prompt corpus benchmarks.

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