No Concept Left Behind: Test-Time Optimization For Compositional Text-to-Image Generation

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Authors: M. Sameti, Amir M. Mansourian, Arash Marioriyad, Soheil Fadaee Oshyani, Mohammad Hossein Rohban, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah
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Abstract

Despite recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) models, they often fail to faithfully render all elements of complex prompts, frequently omitting or misrepresenting specific objects and attributes. Test-time optimization has emerged as a promising approach to address this limitation by refining generation without the need for retraining. In this paper, we propose a fine-grained test-time optimization framework that enhances compositional faithfulness in T2I generation. Unlike most of prior approaches that rely solely on a global image–text similarity score, our method decomposes the input prompt into semantic concepts and evaluates alignment at both the global and concept levels. A fine-grained variant of CLIP is used to compute concept-level correspondence, producing detailed feedback on missing or inaccurate concepts. This feedback is fed into an iterative prompt refinement loop, enabling the large language model to propose improved prompts. Experiments on DrawBench and CompBench prompts demonstrate that our method significantly improves concept coverage and human-judged faithfulness over both standard test-time optimization and the base T2I model. Code is available at: https://github.com/AmirMansurian/NoConceptLeftBehind

Fields of Study & Subjects

Scientific Computing and Data Management Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies

Publication details

Journal / source
ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Publisher
IEEE
Pages
8962–8966
Publication date
21 April 2026
Language
EN