Summary of Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty For Text-to-image Generation, by Gianni Franchi et al.
Towards Understanding and Quantifying Uncertainty for Text-to-Image Generation
by Gianni Franchi, Dat Nguyen Trong, Nacim Belkhir, Guoxuan Xia, Andrea Pilzer
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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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 the crucial issue of uncertainty quantification in text-to-image (T2I) generative models, which is essential for understanding model behavior and improving output reliability. The authors introduce Prompt-based UNCertainty Estimation for T2I models (PUNC), a novel method that leverages Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to quantify uncertainties arising from the semantics of the prompt and generated images. PUNC utilizes a LVLM to caption a generated image, then compares it with the original prompt in the text space, enabling disentanglement of aleatoric and epistemic uncertainties. The authors demonstrate that PUNC outperforms state-of-the-art uncertainty estimation techniques across various settings. This research has applications in bias detection, copyright protection, and OOD detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Uncertainty quantification is important for text-to-image (T2I) generative models because it helps us understand how they work and improves their results. The authors of this paper came up with a new way to measure uncertainty using special language models that can understand both pictures and words. This method, called PUNC, looks at the caption of a generated image and compares it to the original prompt. It’s like comparing what the model “said” about an image versus what you actually asked for. PUNC is better than other methods because it can separate different types of uncertainty. The authors tested PUNC and showed that it works well in many situations. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Prompt * Semantics
