Prompt Optimization for T2I Generation

T2I: Text-to-Image

Overview

Prompt optimization studies how to turn a user's intent into instructions that image generators follow more accurately, without necessarily changing the generator itself. Common approaches rewrite prompts with language models, inspect generated images for errors using vision-language models, or search over candidate prompts with evolutionary algorithms and reinforcement learning. Methods are evaluated on compositional alignment and instruction-following benchmarks such as GenEval, DrawBench, TIFA, and DSG, as well as specialized goals including style, fairness, and physical consistency. The main tension is improving detail and constraint satisfaction without adding unsupported content, harming image quality, or increasing inference cost.

Latest papers

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32 papers9 papers in the last four weeks, against 2 the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. From Structural Feedback to Prompt Policies: Learning Faithful Text-to-Image Prompt Editors

    Oct 26, 2026Wentao Ye, Yali Ye, Zhiqing Xiao +7Prompt Optimization for T2I GenerationT2I Generation

  2. T-DIG: Text-Conditioned Diversity for Image Generation

    Oct 21, 2026Simran Khanuja, Rohit Gandikota, Gaurav Parmar +1T2I GenerationControllable Image Generation

  3. MOSS-Image Technical Report

    Oct 16, 2026MOSI. AILayout-Guided T2I GenerationText Rendering in T2I Generation

  4. SCOPE: Semantic Bounded Credit Optimization for Prompt Engineering in Text-to-image Generation

    Oct 15, 2026Yufei Jiao, Jinfa Huang, Zeyue Xue +5Prompt Optimization for T2I GenerationRL for Image Generation

  5. CommerceGen-Studio: An End-to-End Framework for Commercial-Grade Main-Image Generation

    Oct 14, 2026Xiaoli Xu, Zhengtao Wu, Zhengze Xu +8Image GenerationConditional Image Generation

  6. DOGS: Design-Space Sampling for Prompt-Driven Logo Generation

    Oct 7, 2026Ganyu Zou, Chen Dai, Nathan Self +5Image GenerationPrompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  7. Salvation Lies Within: Eliciting Inherent Style Transfer in Step-Distilled Diffusion Models

    Oct 4, 2026Shengyin Sun, Yiming Li, Yingzhao Lian +7Image Style TransferPrompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  8. PE-OPSD: Internalizing Prompt Enhancement into Flow-matching Models via On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Sep 29, 2026Mingfeng Lin, Chengfei Cai, Lin Xu +3On-Policy Self-DistillationT2I Generation

  9. Amplify What You Gaze At: Target Saliency Boosting in Text-to-Image Generation

    Sep 25, 2026Shengqi Dang, Zhengxi Yu, Feilin Han +2T2I GenerationVisual Saliency

  10. GDB-Reward: From Evaluation Metrics to Training Rewards for Graphic Design

    Sep 2, 2026Adrienne Deganutti, Purvanshi Mehta, Simon Hadfield +1Reward Design for RLPrompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  11. Sidecar: Training-Free Semantic Reuse for Character-Consistent Free-form Visual Storytelling

    Aug 27, 2026Sibo Dong, Sarah Adel BargalVisual StorytellingT2I Diffusion Models

  12. JustLLMGRPO: Radiographic Control for Chest X-Ray Generation

    Aug 8, 2026Pengxiang Cai, Xiaohan Li, Anglin Liu +3T2I GenerationRL for Image Generation

  13. OmniPhys: Knowledge-Graph-Driven Benchmarking and Collective Optimization for Physical Commonsense in Text-to-Image Generation

    Jul 28, 2026Yajing Xu, Yarong Lan, Jiaoyan Chen +6T2I GenerationPrompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  14. PRISM: Prompt Refinement via Image-grounded Self-rewarding Mechanism for Text-to-Image Generation

    Jul 27, 2026Guo Tang, HongJie Luo, Tianxu Wang +2T2I GenerationRL for Image Generation

  15. One Rewrite to Fix Them All? Type-Aware Repair Allocation for Text-to-Image Prompt Optimization

    Jul 21, 2026Haoyue Liu, Xiaoyu Ma, Ye Chen +2T2I GenerationAutomatic Prompt Optimization

  16. EPIG: Emotion-Based Prompting for Personalised Image Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Emna Othmen, Mohamed Yassine Landolsi, Lotfi Ben RomdhaneConditional Image GenerationPrompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  17. Seeing is Believing: Aligning Prompt Rewriting with Visual Anchors for Text-to-Image Generation

    Jun 7, 2026Xuanyi Liu, Deyi Ji, Junyu Lu +6T2I GenerationPrompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  18. KG-FairDiff: Knowledge Graph-Guided Prompt Refinement for Demographically Fair Text-to-Image Generation

    May 31, 2026Farbod Davoodi, Seyed Reza Tavakoli Shiyadeh, Pooria Safaei +12T2I GenerationAlgorithmic Fairness

  19. APE: Agentic Prompt Enhancer for Image Generation and Editing

    May 29, 2026Zijian Huang, Jay Zhangjie Wu, Zian Wang +5Text-Guided Image EditingT2I Generation

  20. RationalRewards: Reasoning Rewards Scale Visual Generation Both Training and Test Time

    Apr 13, 2026Haozhe Wang, Cong Wei, Weiming Ren +3Reward ModelingMultimodal Reward Modeling

  21. Evolutionary Token-Level Prompt Optimization for Diffusion Models

    Apr 10, 2026Domício Pereira Neto, João Correia, Penousal MachadoPrompt Optimization for T2I GenerationPrompt Optimization

  22. Reading Between the Pixels: An Inscriptive Jailbreak Attack on Text-to-Image Models

    Apr 7, 2026Zonghao Ying, Haowen Dai, Lianyu Hu +5Black-Box Adversarial AttacksSafe T2I Generation

  23. PromptEvolver: Prompt Inversion through Evolutionary Optimization in Natural-Language Space

    Apr 3, 2026Asaf Buchnick, Aviv Shamsian, Aviv Navon +1Prompt Optimization for T2I Generation

  24. Verify Claimed Text-to-Image Models via Boundary-Aware Prompt Optimization

    Mar 27, 2026Zidong Zhao, Yihao Huang, Qing Guo +5T2I Generation EvaluationT2I Diffusion Models

  25. A Creative Agent is Worth a 64-Token Template

    Mar 18, 2026Ruixiao Shi, Fu Feng, Yucheng Xie +3T2I GenerationImage Generation

  26. RAISE: Requirement-Adaptive Evolutionary Refinement for Training-Free Text-to-Image Alignment

    Feb 28, 2026Liyao Jiang, Ruichen Chen, Chao Gao +1T2I GenerationText-Image Alignment