Learning from Mistakes: Iterative Prompt Relabeling for Text-to-Image Diffusion Model Training (2024.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in diffusion models have shown impressive performance in many domains, but their ability to follow instructions is still unsatisfactory. |
| Approach: | They propose an algorithm that aligns images to text through iterative image sampling and prompt relabeling with feedback. |
| Outcome: | The proposed algorithm improves on the spatial relation VISOR benchmark by 15.22% compared to previous methods. |
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