Summary of Discriminative Probing and Tuning For Text-to-image Generation, by Leigang Qu et al.
Discriminative Probing and Tuning for Text-to-Image Generation
by Leigang Qu, Wenjie Wang, Yongqi Li, Hanwang Zhang, Liqiang Nie, Tat-Seng Chua
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Multimedia (cs.MM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper addresses a common issue in text-to-image generation (T2I), where generated images often struggle with text-image alignment. Current methods focus on cross-attention manipulation or integrating large language models, but these approaches still fall short. The authors propose that T2I models’ discriminative abilities are key to achieving better text-image alignment and present a novel discriminator adapter built on top of T2I models. This adapter is tested on two representative tasks and fine-tuned for improved alignment. As a bonus, the adapter enables a self-correction mechanism during inference, leveraging discriminative gradients to refine generated images. The paper evaluates its method across three benchmark datasets, including in-distribution and out-of-distribution scenarios, demonstrating superior generation performance and state-of-the-art discriminative performance on two tasks compared to other generative models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research looks at how computers can create pictures that match what someone is describing. Right now, these computer systems often get the description wrong. The scientists behind this study think that if they make the computer system better at making judgments about whether something is correct or not, it will be able to create more accurate pictures that match the description. They built a special tool called an adapter that helps the computer system do this and tested it on some examples. It worked really well! This new tool can even help fix mistakes while it’s generating the picture. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Cross attention » Image generation » Inference
