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arxiv: 2504.18269 · v2 · submitted 2025-04-25 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.CV

TextTIGER: Text-based Intelligent Generation with Entity Prompt Refinement for Text-to-Image Generation

Shintaro Ozaki , Tomoyuki Jinno , Kazuki Hayashi , Yusuke Sakai , Jingun Kwon , Hidetaka Kamigaito , Katsuhiko Hayashi , Manabu Okumura
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classification 💻 cs.CL cs.CV
keywords text-to-image generationprompt refinemententity augmentationlarge language modelsimage evaluation metricsmultimodal LLM judgecaption enrichment
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The pith

Augmenting text prompts with external entity details then summarizing them with LLMs improves image generation for specific entities.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper addresses the problem that image generators cannot memorize every possible entity and must instead receive useful knowledge through the prompt itself. TextTIGER adds outside information about each entity named in the caption and then asks a large language model to condense the longer text into a concise, enriched prompt. Experiments on a newly built dataset of captions, entity lists, and images show that this refined input produces higher scores on standard image metrics than the original caption alone. A multimodal LLM used as judge, which tracks human preferences, also rates the outputs from the refined prompts more highly across several generator models. The central result is that entity knowledge can be strengthened on the fly and kept to an effective length rather than relying on the model to know every detail from training.

Core claim

TextTIGER strengthens knowledge about entities that appear in the prompt by augmenting external information and then summarizes the expanded descriptions with large language models, preventing performance degradation that arises from excessively long inputs. Experiments with multiple image generation models show that TextTIGER improves image generation performance on widely used evaluation metrics compared with prompts that use captions alone, and the MLLM-as-a-judge scores are consistently higher.

What carries the argument

TextTIGER: entity prompt refinement that augments the original caption with external entity descriptions and then applies LLM summarization to produce a compact yet enriched input for the image generator.

If this is right

  • Image generators produce measurably better outputs on standard metrics when given prompts that contain summarized external entity facts.
  • The gains hold across several different text-to-image models rather than being limited to one architecture.
  • Multimodal LLM judges that correlate with human ratings assign higher scores to images produced from the refined prompts.
  • A dataset pairing captions with entity lists makes it possible to measure and improve entity handling in future prompt methods.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same augmentation-plus-summarization step could be tested on prompts that mention newly coined or very rare entities to see whether external knowledge helps most in those cases.
  • Applying the refinement loop to video generation might improve consistency of specific characters or objects across frames.
  • Pairing the method with live retrieval of current facts about entities could address time-sensitive or updated knowledge needs.

Load-bearing premise

That external entity information added to the prompt and then summarized will stay accurate and helpful rather than introducing errors or irrelevant details that confuse the image model.

What would settle it

Generate images from the same set of captions containing obscure entities using both the original prompt and the TextTIGER-refined prompt, then measure whether the refined version produces visibly more accurate depictions of the entity's documented visual traits.

read the original abstract

When generating images from prompts that include specific entities, the model must retain as much entity-specific knowledge as possible. However, the number of entities is almost countless, and new entities emerge; memorizing all of them completely is not realistic. To bridge this gap, our work proposes Text-based Intelligent Generation with Entity Prompt Refinement (TextTIGER). TextTIGER strengthens knowledge about entities that appear in the prompt by augmenting external information and then summarizes the expanded descriptions with large language models, preventing performance degradation that arises from excessively long inputs. To evaluate our method, we construct a new dataset consisting of captions, images, detailed descriptions, and lists of entities. Experiments with multiple image generation models show that TextTIGER improves image generation performance on widely used evaluation metrics compared with prompts that use captions alone. In addition, using Multimodal LLM (MLLM)-as-a-judge, which shows a strong correlation with human evaluation, we demonstrate that our method consistently achieves higher scores, which underscores its effectiveness. These results show that strengthening entity-related descriptions, summarizing them, and refining prompts to an appropriate length leads to substantial improvements in image generation performance. We will release the created dataset and code upon acceptance.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper proposes TextTIGER, a method for text-to-image generation that augments entity-containing captions with external information and then applies LLM summarization to produce refined prompts of suitable length. The authors construct a new dataset of captions, images, detailed descriptions, and entity lists. Experiments across multiple image generation models report improvements on standard metrics relative to caption-only baselines, and an MLLM-as-a-judge evaluation (asserted to correlate with human judgments) shows consistently higher scores for the refined prompts.

Significance. If the empirical gains are attributable to accurate entity-knowledge injection rather than prompt length or other confounds, the approach offers a practical way to handle the long tail of entities without model retraining or unbounded context. Dataset and code release would add value for prompt-engineering research in generative vision-language systems.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Dataset Construction] Abstract and §3 (Dataset Construction): the central claim that summarization 'strengthens knowledge about entities' without degradation requires evidence that the LLM summarizer preserves distinguishing attributes and avoids hallucinations or omissions. No factuality checks, omission-rate measurements, or human review of the final refined prompts versus the expanded descriptions are reported, leaving open that metric gains may stem from unrelated factors such as increased prompt specificity or length.
  2. [Experiments] Experiments section: quantitative details on dataset size, exact sources of external entity augmentation, the precise summarization prompts, and any statistical significance testing for the reported metric improvements are absent. Without these, it is difficult to assess reproducibility or whether the gains exceed what would be expected from longer or more descriptive prompts alone.
  3. [Evaluation with MLLM-as-a-Judge] MLLM-as-a-judge evaluation: the statement of 'strong correlation with human evaluation' is presented without reported correlation coefficients, agreement rates, or details of the human study protocol (number of raters, scoring rubric, inter-rater reliability). This weakens the evidential weight of the judge-based results for the main claim.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract states that the method 'prevents performance degradation that arises from excessively long inputs,' yet no ablation isolating the effect of prompt length versus entity-content quality is described.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating the revisions we will incorporate to strengthen the manuscript's clarity, reproducibility, and evidential basis.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Dataset Construction] Abstract and §3 (Dataset Construction): the central claim that summarization 'strengthens knowledge about entities' without degradation requires evidence that the LLM summarizer preserves distinguishing attributes and avoids hallucinations or omissions. No factuality checks, omission-rate measurements, or human review of the final refined prompts versus the expanded descriptions are reported, leaving open that metric gains may stem from unrelated factors such as increased prompt specificity or length.

    Authors: We agree that explicit verification of the summarization step is important to substantiate the claim that entity knowledge is strengthened without degradation. In the revised manuscript, we will add a dedicated analysis subsection that reports automated factuality metrics (e.g., attribute preservation rates via entity linking) and results from a small-scale human review comparing expanded descriptions to summarized prompts for hallucinations, omissions, and retention of distinguishing attributes. We will also discuss controls to separate effects of length versus content. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Experiments section: quantitative details on dataset size, exact sources of external entity augmentation, the precise summarization prompts, and any statistical significance testing for the reported metric improvements are absent. Without these, it is difficult to assess reproducibility or whether the gains exceed what would be expected from longer or more descriptive prompts alone.

    Authors: We acknowledge that these specifics are essential for reproducibility and for addressing potential confounds such as prompt length. The revised version will report the exact dataset size (number of samples, entities, and splits), the precise external sources used for entity augmentation, the full text of the LLM summarization prompts, and statistical significance results (e.g., p-values from paired tests) comparing TextTIGER to baselines. We will also include an ablation on prompt length to isolate the contribution of entity-knowledge injection. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Evaluation with MLLM-as-a-Judge] MLLM-as-a-judge evaluation: the statement of 'strong correlation with human evaluation' is presented without reported correlation coefficients, agreement rates, or details of the human study protocol (number of raters, scoring rubric, inter-rater reliability). This weakens the evidential weight of the judge-based results for the main claim.

    Authors: We recognize that quantitative validation details are needed to support the correlation claim. In the revision, we will report the specific correlation coefficients (Pearson and/or Spearman), agreement rates, and complete human-study protocol information, including the number of raters, scoring rubric, and inter-rater reliability (e.g., Cohen's or Fleiss' kappa). If the original study was preliminary, we will supplement with additional validation data. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity in empirical prompt-refinement pipeline

full rationale

The paper presents TextTIGER as an empirical pipeline: external entity information is augmented into captions, then summarized by an LLM to produce refined prompts of appropriate length. These prompts are fed to off-the-shelf text-to-image models and evaluated on standard metrics plus MLLM-as-judge. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains appear in the derivation. The central claims rest on experimental comparisons against caption-only baselines using a newly constructed dataset; the results are not forced by construction or by prior outputs of the same authors. The method is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on the domain assumption that external augmentation plus LLM summarization preserves entity knowledge without net loss or distortion, plus the empirical claim that the new dataset and MLLM judge are valid proxies for human preference.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Large language models can summarize expanded entity descriptions while retaining the most relevant knowledge for image generation.
    Invoked to justify the summarization step that prevents degradation from long inputs.
  • domain assumption The constructed dataset of captions, images, detailed descriptions, and entity lists provides an unbiased testbed for entity-specific generation quality.
    Used to support the reported metric improvements.

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