In plain words: Given just 3–5 photos of a subject, it learns adjustable settings that teach the model to answer questions about it and draw it in new scenes. Compared with standard tuning, its training tricks keep both skills strong and improve image quality.
Abstract
Large Multimodal Models (e.g., GPT-4, Gemini, Chameleon) have evolved into powerful tools with millions of users. However, they remain generic models and lack personalized knowledge of specific user concepts. Previous work has explored personalization for text generation, yet it remains unclear how these methods can be adapted to new modalities, such as image generation. In this paper, we introduce Yo'Chameleon, the first attempt to study personalization for large multimodal models. Given 3-5 images of a particular concept, Yo'Chameleon leverages soft-prompt tuning to embed subject-specific information to (i) answer questions about the subject and (ii) recreate pixel-level details to produce images of the subject in new contexts. Yo'Chameleon is trained with (i) a self-prompting optimization mechanism to balance performance across multiple modalities, and (ii) a ``soft-positive" image generation approach to enhance image quality in a few-shot setting.
Thao Nguyen, Krishna Kumar Singh, Jing Shi, Trung Bui, Yong Jae Lee, Yuheng Li
arXiv:2504.20998 · cs.CV, cs.AI · submitted Apr 29, 2025
abstract · pdf · html · CVPR 2025; Project page: https://thaoshibe.github.io/YoChameleon