Challenge: Recent advances in text-to-image diffusion models have made it difficult to obtain high-quality images.
Approach: They propose an adaptive framework that automatically enhances a user's prompt to improve the quality of generation models.
Outcome: The proposed framework generates prompts similar to those produced by human prompt engineers and provides user control over stylistic features via constraint set specification.

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