In plain words: Instead of throwing away images and tuning the generator to one preference score, MIRO tells the model during training how it did on several quality and preference measures at once. This made images better and training faster, topping composition and user-preference tests.
Abstract · MIRO: MultI-Reward cOnditioned pretraining improves T2I quality and efficiency
The default paradigm of post-training text-to-image generators includes post-hoc selection of generated images, and subsequent training with one reward model to align the generator to the reward, typically user preference. This discards informative data as well as optimizes only for a single reward, hence harming diversity, semantic fidelity and efficiency. Instead, we propose MIRO, a method that conditions the model on multiple rewards during training, thus letting the model learn user preferences directly. MIRO pre-training both improves the visual quality of the generated images and speeds up the training, achieving state of the art on the GenEval compositional benchmark and user-preference scores (PickAScore, ImageReward, HPSv2).
Nicolas Dufour, Lucas Degeorge, Arijit Ghosh, Vicky Kalogeiton, David Picard
arXiv:2510.25897 · cs.CV, cs.LG · submitted Oct 29, 2025 · updated May 19, 2026
abstract · pdf · html · Accepted at ICML 2026. Project page: https://nicolas-dufour.github.io/miro