T2I Generation

T2I: Text-to-Image

Overview

Text-to-image generation studies how models turn natural-language instructions into images, primarily using diffusion and flow-matching models, autoregressive visual-token models, and unified multimodal systems. Researchers improve prompt following through better text and visual representations, spatial planning, reference-image conditioning, and post-training with preference or rubric-based rewards. Benchmarks test compositional alignment, counting, text rendering, world knowledge, and visual quality, while audits examine bias, privacy, and harmful outputs. A central challenge is making generations reliably match complex instructions and real-world constraints without sacrificing diversity, image quality, efficiency, or safety.

Latest papers

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302 papers45 papers in the last four weeks, up 88% on the four weeks before. 0.3% of all new papers.

  1. Operationalizing Fairness in Text-to-Image Models: A Survey of Bias, Fairness Audits and Mitigation Strategies

    Apr 15, 2026Megan Smith, Venkatesh Thirugnana Sambandham, Florian Richter +3Algorithmic FairnessDemographic Bias in T2I Models

  2. UniRect-CoT: Enhancing Generation in Unified Multimodal Models via Reflective Rectification with Inherent Understanding

    Apr 15, 2026Yibo Jiang, Tao Wu, Rui Jiang +4Diffusion Model GuidanceUnified Multimodal Models

  3. Bias at the End of the Score

    Apr 14, 2026Salma Abdel Magid, Grace Guo, Esin Tureci +4Reward ModelingT2I Generation

  4. Generative Refinement Networks for Visual Synthesis

    Apr 14, 2026Jian Han, Jinlai Liu, Jiahuan Wang +2Binary QuantizationT2V Generation

  5. Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation to Individual Taste

    Apr 8, 2026Anne-Sofie Maerten, Juliane Verwiebe, Shyamgopal Karthik +3Personalized Reward ModelingPersonalized Image Aesthetics Assessment

  6. FlowInOne:Unifying Multimodal Generation as Image-in, Image-out Flow Matching

    Apr 8, 2026Junchao Yi, Rui Zhao, Jiahao Tang +7Multimodal GenerationImage Generation

  7. Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning

    Apr 6, 2026Lei Zhang, Junjiao Tian, Zhipeng Fan +9Image GenerationT2I Generation

  8. IDDM: Identity-Decoupled Personalized Diffusion Models with a Tunable Privacy-Utility Trade-off

    Apr 1, 2026Linyan Dai, Xinwei Zhang, Haoyang Li +2T2I Diffusion ModelsImage Generation

  9. On-the-fly Repulsion in the Contextual Space for Rich Diversity in Diffusion Transformers

    Mar 30, 2026Omer Dahary, Benaya Koren, Daniel Garibi +1T2I GenerationDiffusion Model Guidance

  10. MathGen: Revealing the Illusion of Mathematical Competence through Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 30, 2026Ruiyao Liu, Hui Shen, Ping Zhang +16T2I GenerationT2I Generation Evaluation

  11. LACON: Training Text-to-Image Model from Uncurated Data

    Mar 27, 2026Zhiyang Liang, Ziyu Wan, Hongyu Liu +4Geometry-Conditioned Image GenerationT2I Generation

  12. Wan-Weaver: Interleaved Multi-modal Generation via Decoupled Training

    Mar 26, 2026Jinbo Xing, Zeyinzi Jiang, Yuxiang Tuo +15Multimodal GenerationMultimodal Foundation Models

  13. PersonalQ: Select, Quantize, and Serve Personalized Diffusion Models for Efficient Inference

    Mar 24, 2026Qirui Wang, Qi Guo, Yiding Sun +4Diffusion Model ServingT2I Diffusion Models

  14. SpatialReward: Verifiable Spatial Reward Modeling for Fine-Grained Spatial Consistency in Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 23, 2026Sashuai Zhou, Qiang Zhou, Junpeng Ma +9Reward ModelingT2I Generation

  15. EruDiff: Refactoring Knowledge in Diffusion Models for Advanced Text-to-Image Synthesis

    Mar 21, 2026Xiefan Guo, Xinzhu Ma, Haoxiang Ma +2T2I GenerationT2I Diffusion Models

  16. Premier: Personalized Preference Modulation with Learnable User Embedding in Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 21, 2026Zihao Wang, Yuxiang Wei, Xinpeng Zhou +5T2I GenerationUser Preference Modeling

  17. DiffGraph: An Automated Agent-driven Model Merging Framework for In-the-Wild Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 20, 2026Zhuoling Li, Hossein Rahmani, Jiarui Zhang +5Model MergingT2I Generation

  18. ATHENA: Adaptive Test-Time Steering for Improving Count Fidelity in Diffusion Models

    Mar 20, 2026Mohammad Shahab Sepehri, Asal Mehradfar, Berk Tinaz +2T2I GenerationT2I Diffusion Models

  19. Adaptive Auxiliary Prompt Blending for Target-Faithful Diffusion Generation

    Mar 19, 2026Kwanyoung Lee, SeungJu Cha, Yebin Ahn +3T2I GenerationT2I Diffusion Models

  20. Agentic Flow Steering and Parallel Rollout Search for Spatially Grounded Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 19, 2026Ping Chen, Daoxuan Zhang, Xiangming Wang +3T2I GenerationT2I Diffusion Models

  21. A Novel FACS-Aligned Anatomical Text Description Paradigm for Fine-Grained Facial Behavior Synthesis

    Mar 19, 2026Jiahe Wang, Cong Liang, Xuandong Huang +5Facial Expression SynthesisT2I Generation

  22. LaDe: Unified Multi-Layered Graphic Media Generation and Decomposition

    Mar 18, 2026Vlad-Constantin Lungu-Stan, Ionut Mironica, Mariana-Iuliana GeorgescuImage GenerationLatent Diffusion Models

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

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

  24. DermaFlux: Synthetic Skin Lesion Generation with Rectified Flows for Enhanced Image Classification

    Mar 17, 2026Stathis Galanakis, Alexandros Koliousis, Stefanos ZafeiriouMedical Image SynthesisSynthetic Data Augmentation

  25. Reliable Reasoning in SVG-LLMs via Multi-Task Multi-Reward Reinforcement Learning

    Mar 17, 2026Haomin Wang, Qi Wei, Qianli Ma +4Text-to-SVG GenerationVLM Reasoning