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

CardsList

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

  1. Not All Latent Spaces Are Flat: Hyperbolic Concept Control

    Mar 14, 2026Maria Rosaria Briglia, Simone Facchiano, Paolo Cursi +6Controllable Image GenerationSafe T2I Generation

  2. IdentityGuard: Context-Aware Restriction and Provenance for Personalized Synthesis

    Mar 14, 2026Lingyun Zhang, Yu Xie, Ping ChenAI-Generated Image WatermarkingSafe T2I Generation

  3. Steering Generative Models for Accessibility: EasyRead Image Generation

    Mar 14, 2026Nicolas Dickenmann, Yanis Merzouki, Sonia Laguna +4Image GenerationT2I Generation

  4. Mitigating Memorization in Text-to-Image Diffusion via Region-Aware Prompt Augmentation and Multimodal Copy Detection

    Mar 13, 2026Yunzhuo Chen, Jordan Vice, Naveed Akhtar +2T2I Diffusion ModelsT2I Generation

  5. LADR: Locality-Aware Dynamic Rescue for Efficient Text-to-Image Generation with Diffusion Large Language Models

    Mar 13, 2026Chenglin Wang, Yucheng Zhou, Shawn Chen +2T2I GenerationDiffusion Language Model Inference

  6. coDrawAgents: A Multi-Agent Dialogue Framework for Compositional Image Generation

    Mar 13, 2026Chunhan Li, Qifeng Wu, Jia-Hui Pan +7Layout-Guided T2I GenerationT2I Generation

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

    Mar 12, 2026Joong Ho Kim, Nicholas Thai, Souhardya Saha Dip +2T2I GenerationT2I Generation Evaluation

  8. GlyphBanana: Advancing Precise Text Rendering Through Agentic Workflows

    Mar 12, 2026Zexuan Yan, Jiarui Jin, Yue Ma +5Text Rendering in T2I GenerationT2I Generation

  9. The Quadratic Geometry of Flow Matching: Semantic Granularity Alignment for Text-to-Image Synthesis

    Mar 11, 2026Zhinan Xiong, Shunqi YuanFlow MatchingT2I Generation

  10. High-Fidelity Text-to-Image Generation from Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models via Distribution-Conditioned Diffusion Decoding

    Mar 11, 2026Ji Woo Hong, Hee Suk Yoon, Gwanhyeong Koo +5T2I GenerationDiffusion-Based Image Generation

  11. Delta-K: Boosting Multi-Instance Generation via Cross-Attention Augmentation

    Mar 10, 2026Zitong Wang, Zijun Shen, Haohao Xu +2Diffusion Model GuidanceT2I Generation

  12. CogBlender: Towards Continuous Cognitive Intervention in Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 10, 2026Shengqi Dang, Yi He, Jiaying Lei +2T2I GenerationControllable Image Generation

  13. TIDE: Text-Informed Dynamic Extrapolation with Step-Aware Temperature Control for Diffusion Transformers

    Mar 9, 2026Yihua Liu, Fanjiang Ye, Bowen Lin +2T2I Diffusion ModelsDiffusion Transformer

  14. CoCo: Code as CoT for Text-to-Image Preview and Rare Concept Generation

    Mar 9, 2026Haodong Li, Chunmei Qing, Huanyu Zhang +11T2I GenerationImage Generation

  15. Learning to Generate via Understanding: Understanding-Driven Intrinsic Rewarding for Unified Multimodal Models

    Mar 6, 2026Jiadong Pan, Liang Li, Yuxin Peng +6Unified Multimodal ModelsT2I Generation

  16. StruVis: Enhancing Reasoning-based Text-to-Image Generation via Thinking with Structured Vision

    Mar 6, 2026Yuanhuiyi Lyu, Kaiyu Lei, Ziqiao Weng +7T2I GenerationVLM Reasoning

  17. Order Is Not Layout: Order-to-Space Bias in Image Generation

    Mar 4, 2026Yongkang Zhang, Zonglin Zhao, Yuechen Zhang +3T2I GenerationCompositional Image Generation

  18. AutoFigure-Edit: Generating Editable Scientific Illustration

    Mar 3, 2026Zhen Lin, Qiujie Xie, Minjun Zhu +10Scientific VisualizationText-to-SVG Generation

  19. Unifying Contrastive and Generative Objectives for Visual Understanding and Text-to-Image Generation

    Mar 3, 2026Chao Li, Tianhong Li, Sai Vidyaranya Nuthalapati +9T2I GenerationVisual Representation Learning

  20. SJD-PV: Speculative Jacobi Decoding with Phrase Verification for Autoregressive Image Generation

    Mar 2, 2026Zhehao Yu, Baoquan Zhang, Bingqi Shan +5Speculative DecodingAutoregressive Image Generation

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

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

  22. Enhancing Spatial Understanding in Image Generation via Reward Modeling

    Feb 27, 2026Zhenyu Tang, Chaoran Feng, Yufan Deng +5T2I GenerationReward Modeling

  23. Accelerating Masked Image Generation by Learning Controlled Latent Dynamics

    Feb 27, 2026Kaiwen Zhu, Quansheng Zeng, Yuandong Pu +9Latent Dynamics ModelingT2I Generation

  24. Asymmetric Idiosyncrasies in Multimodal Models

    Feb 26, 2026Muzi Tao, Chufan Shi, Huijuan Wang +2T2I GenerationT2I Generation Evaluation

  25. GeoDiv: Framework For Measuring Geographical Diversity In Text-To-Image Models

    Feb 25, 2026Abhipsa Basu, Mohana Singh, Shashank Agnihotri +2T2I Generation EvaluationT2I Generation