In plain words: Instead of retraining the model on a subject, this tool keeps it consistent across prompts by letting images share the model's workings as they are drawn. It beat fine-tuning methods on subject consistency and prompt following, with zero training steps, and handles multiple subjects.
Abstract
Text-to-image models offer a new level of creative flexibility by allowing users to guide the image generation process through natural language. However, using these models to consistently portray the same subject across diverse prompts remains challenging. Existing approaches fine-tune the model to teach it new words that describe specific user-provided subjects or add image conditioning to the model. These methods require lengthy per-subject optimization or large-scale pre-training. Moreover, they struggle to align generated images with text prompts and face difficulties in portraying multiple subjects. Here, we present ConsiStory, a training-free approach that enables consistent subject generation by sharing the internal activations of the pretrained model. We introduce a subject-driven shared attention block and correspondence-based feature injection to promote subject consistency between images. Additionally, we develop strategies to encourage layout diversity while maintaining subject consistency. We compare ConsiStory to a range of baselines, and demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on subject consistency and text alignment, without requiring a single optimization step. Finally, ConsiStory can naturally extend to multi-subject scenarios, and even enable training-free personalization for common objects.
Yoad Tewel, Omri Kaduri, Rinon Gal, Yoni Kasten, Lior Wolf, Gal Chechik, Yuval Atzmon
arXiv:2402.03286 · cs.CV, cs.AI, cs.GR, cs.LG · submitted Feb 5, 2024 · updated May 30, 2024
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted to journal track of SIGGRAPH 2024 (TOG). Project page is at https://consistory-paper.github.io