Prompt Reinjection: Alleviating Prompt Forgetting in Multimodal Diffusion Transformers for Text-to-Image Generation

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Authors: Yuxuan Yao, Yuxuan Chen, Hui Li, Kaihui Cheng, Qipeng Guo, Yuwei Sun, Zilong Dong, Jingdong Wang, Siyu Zhu
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Abstract

Multimodal Diffusion Transformers (MMDiTs) for text-to-image generation maintain separate text and image branches, with bidirectional information flow between text tokens and visual latents throughout denoising. In this setting, we observe a prompt forgetting phenomenon: the semantics of the prompt representation in the text branch is progressively forgotten as depth increases. We further verify this effect on three representative MMDiTs--SD3, SD3.5, and FLUX.1 by probing linguistic attributes of the representations over the layers in the text branch. Motivated by these findings, we introduce a training-free approach, prompt reinjection, which reinjects prompt representations from early layers into later layers to alleviate this forgetting. Experiments on GenEval, DPG, and T2I-CompBench++ show consistent gains in instruction-following capability, along with improvements on metrics capturing preference, aesthetics, and overall text--image generation quality.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis Multimodal Machine Learning Applications Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

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Journal / source
arXiv (Cornell University)
Publication date
6 February 2026
Document type
Preprint