arXiv:2605.06070cs.CV2026-05

用离线评分实现精细化微调,提升图像生成模型对齐效果。

Arena as Offline Reward: Efficient Fine-Grained Preference Optimization for Diffusion Models

论文配图:Arena as Offline Reward: Efficient Fine-Grained Preference Optimization for Diffusion Models
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  • 通过构建模型能力分布,利用配对偏好推断图像质量差距
  • 在Pick-a-Pic v2和HPD v3上优于现有基线方法
  • 无需奖励模型,可离线计算,训练无额外开销

基于人类反馈的强化学习(RLHF)有效提升了文本到图像扩散模型的偏好对齐。为提高计算效率,直接偏好优化(DPO)因其无需显式建模奖励而被广泛研究。然而,其依赖二元反馈,仅能粗粒度地处理选择-拒绝对,导致优化效果不佳。本文提出ArenaPO,利用离线的Arena评分作为精细反馈信号,实现高效且细粒度的优化,同时兼具传统RLHF的丰富奖励与DPO的高效性。具体地,我们构建一个模型竞技场,将每个模型的能力表示为高斯分布,并通过遍历标注的成对偏好推断这些分布。每张输出图像被视为对应能力分布的一个样本。对于一对图像,在给定两个能力分布及观测到的偏好条件下,通过基于截断正态分布的隐变量推断,估计绝对质量差距,作为训练中的细粒度反馈。该方法无需奖励模型,可离线计算,不增加训练开销。我们在Pick-a-Pic v2和HPD v3数据集上进行ArenaPO训练,结果表明其持续优于现有基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) effectively promotes preference alignment of text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models. To improve computational efficiency, direct preference optimization (DPO), which avoids explicit reward modeling, has been widely studied. However, its reliance on binary feedback limits it to coarse-grained modeling on chosen-rejected pairs, resulting in suboptimal optimization. In this paper, we propose ArenaPO, which leverages Arena scores as offline rewards to provide refined feedback, thus achieving efficient and fine-grained optimization without a reward model. This enables ArenaPO to benefit from both the rich rewards of traditional RLHF and the efficiency of DPO. Specifically, we first construct a model Arena in which each model's capability is represented as a Gaussian distribution, and infer these capabilities by traversing the annotated pairwise preferences. Each output image is treated as a sample from the corresponding capability distribution. Then, for a image pair, conditioned on the two capability distributions and the observed pairwise preference, the absolute quality gap is estimated using latent-variable inference based on truncated normal distribution, which serves as fine-grained feedback during training. It does not require a reward model and can be computed offline, thus introducing no additional training overhead. We conduct ArenaPO training on Pick-a-Pic v2 and HPD v3 datasets, showing that ArenaPO consistently outperforms existing baselines.

扩散模型偏好优化离线奖励图像生成

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