Beyond Textual Constraints: Learning Novel Diffusion Conditions with Fewer Examples

Yuyang Yu, Bangzhen Liu, Chenxi Zheng, Xuemiao Xu, Huaidong Zhang, Shengfeng He; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 7109-7118

In this paper we delve into a novel aspect of learning novel diffusion conditions with datasets an order of magnitude smaller. The rationale behind our approach is the elimination of textual constraints during the few-shot learning process. To that end we implement two optimization strategies. The first prompt-free conditional learning utilizes a prompt-free encoder derived from a pre-trained Stable Diffusion model. This strategy is designed to adapt new conditions to the diffusion process by minimizing the textual-visual correlation thereby ensuring a more precise alignment between the generated content and the specified conditions. The second strategy entails condition-specific negative rectification which addresses the inconsistencies typically brought about by Classifier-free guidance in few-shot training contexts. Our extensive experiments across a variety of condition modalities demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our framework yielding results comparable to those obtained with datasets a thousand times larger. Our codes are available at https://github.com/Yuyan9Yu/BeyondTextConstraint.