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arxiv: 2603.07561 · v2 · pith:72CVBSOMnew · submitted 2026-03-08 · 💻 cs.CV

PureCC: Pure Learning for Text-to-Image Concept Customization

Zhichao Liao , Xiaole Xian , Qingyu Li , Wenyu Qin , Meng Wang , Weicheng Xie , Siyang Song , Pingfa Feng
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keywords text-to-image generationconcept customizationpersonalized synthesismodel preservationdecoupled learningdiffusion modelsadaptive guidance
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The pith

PureCC decouples concept guidance from original predictions to keep the base text-to-image model intact.

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

PureCC tackles the common problem that customizing text-to-image models for new concepts often damages how the original model handles other prompts and tasks. It introduces a decoupled learning objective that supplies implicit guidance for the target concept while still requiring the model to produce its standard conditional predictions. This separation is realized in a dual-branch pipeline: one frozen branch extracts clean representations of the new concept, and a trainable branch handles the original prediction flow. An adaptive guidance scale further tunes how strongly the new concept pulls the output. The result is high-fidelity customization paired with stronger retention of the base model's prior behavior and abilities.

Core claim

PureCC introduces a novel decoupled learning objective for concept customization, which combines the implicit guidance of the target concept with the original conditional prediction. This separated form enables PureCC to substantially focus on the original model during training. Moreover, based on this objective, PureCC designs a dual-branch training pipeline that includes a frozen extractor providing purified target concept representations as implicit guidance and a trainable flow model producing the original conditional prediction, jointly achieving pure learning for personalized concepts. Furthermore, PureCC introduces a novel adaptive guidance scale λ* to dynamically adjust the guidance

What carries the argument

decoupled learning objective that combines implicit target-concept guidance with the original conditional prediction

If this is right

  • The base model retains its original behavior and capabilities after the customization process.
  • High-fidelity images of the new concept can be produced while performance on unrelated tasks stays close to the unmodified model.
  • The adaptive guidance scale provides explicit control over the trade-off between concept strength and model preservation.
  • The dual-branch design jointly optimizes for both customization fidelity and original-model retention.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • Similar decoupling of guidance and base prediction could be tested in other generative tasks such as text-to-video or audio synthesis.
  • The approach may reduce unintended side effects when multiple users apply successive customizations to the same base model.
  • The adaptive scale could serve as a general mechanism for balancing adaptation and stability in other fine-tuning settings.

Load-bearing premise

The decoupled learning objective that pairs implicit guidance for the target concept with the original conditional prediction lets the model focus on the base model during training without losing customization quality.

What would settle it

Evaluating the customized model on a benchmark of standard prompts unrelated to the new concept and finding that its outputs degrade in quality or fidelity compared with the unmodified base model or with other customization methods.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.07561 by Liang Pan, Long Zeng, Meng Wang, Pingfa Feng, Qingyu Li, Siyang Song, Weicheng Xie, Wenyu Qin, Xiaole Xian, Zhichao Liao.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: We introduce PureCC, a novel concept customization approach. (a) PureCC effectively maintains target-unrelated image elements with original model’s behavior after the personalized concept insertion. (b) Existing methods such as DreamBooth [36] and LoRA [18] fail to follow the prompt ‘placed on a bright window’ during custom generation. (c) The declined curve indicates that existing methods compromise the o… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Original Distribution Drift. Visualization and KL Di￾vergence results demonstrated that existing methods, which adjust pre-trained models to align with the target distribution for learning personalized concepts, lead to distribution drift. sonalized concept. To decouple the target concept from the custom set, we first introduce a representation extractor that uses a pre-trained flow-based model as the back… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Overview of our PureCC. (a). We first fine-tune a flow model on the custom set as representation extractor. (b). During the pure learning stage, the representation extractor remains frozen and provides the target concept representation, which is then controlled by our adaptive scale λ ⋆ to implicitly guide the trainable model. The trainable model is initialized from another pre-trained flow model and provi… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Motivation of Adaptive Scale λ ⋆ . A small λ can pre￾serve the original model’s behavior and capabilities but leads to a decrease in the fidelity of the target concept. Conversely, when λ is excessively large, the personalized concept dominates the learning objective, causing the final distribution to drift away from the original distribution. This results in a degradation of the model’s generative ability… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative Comparison with SOTAs including Tuning-based methods: DreamBooth [36], DreamBooth + EWC [39], Mix-of￾Show [13], CIFC [9], and Tuning-free methods: DreamO [31] UNO [46]. 5. Experiments 5.1. Experimental Setup Dataset. To ensure a fair qualitative evaluation with pre￾vious methods, we select 14 personalized concepts from the dataset proposed by DreamBooth [36]. Furthermore, to evaluate the adapta… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Qualitative comparison in Multi-Concept Cus￾tomization with Mix-of-show [13], LoRA-S [53]. B-LoRA CIFC DreamO PureCC (Ours) Instance Style A [V1] dog playing in a blooming garden, vibrant flowers, in [V2] style. A dog playing in a blooming garden, vibrant flowers. [V2] style A [V1] dog playing in a blooming garden, vibrant flowers, in [V3] style. [V1] dog [V3] style [V1] dog Original [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figu… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Qualitative comparison of style–instance customiza￾tion across different methods, including CIFC [9], B-LoRA [11], DreamO [31]. B-LoRA is a tuning-based approach specifically designed for balancing style and content adaptation. Each case combines an instance concept with a specific style. customization tasks. As illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualization of Pure Learning Process. xb P ureCC 0 denotes the images obtained by integrating the velocity field {v P ureCC t } T t=1. Similarly, xb original 0 and xb complete 0 are based on {v original t } T t=1 and {v complete t } T t=1, respectively. “iter” denotes the training iteration [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Visualization of the Ablation Study [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Some samples selected from the dataset proposed by DreamBooth [36] [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Some samples additionally collected by us [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Some style samples in our DreamBenchPCC. 13 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: More qualitative evaluation results 14 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: More qualitative evaluation results 15 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: Qualitative Analysis of the η [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_15.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: Results compared to which Original Conditional Prediction is provided by the Trainable model v θ2 t (xt|ybase) or another Frozen pre-trained model v θ3 t (xt|ybase) . original model’s outputs, disregarding the insertion of per￾sonalized concepts. For “Base Text Alignment,” users were tasked with choosing which of the two images more accu￾rately align with the base text’s description. For “Aesthetic Prefer… view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: The investigation page in user study [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_17.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Existing concept customization methods have achieved remarkable outcomes in high-fidelity and multi-concept customization. However, they often neglect the influence on the original model's behavior and capabilities when learning new personalized concepts. To address this issue, we propose PureCC. PureCC introduces a novel decoupled learning objective for concept customization, which combines the implicit guidance of the target concept with the original conditional prediction. This separated form enables PureCC to substantially focus on the original model during training. Moreover, based on this objective, PureCC designs a dual-branch training pipeline that includes a frozen extractor providing purified target concept representations as implicit guidance and a trainable flow model producing the original conditional prediction, jointly achieving pure learning for personalized concepts. Furthermore, PureCC introduces a novel adaptive guidance scale $\lambda^\star$ to dynamically adjust the guidance strength of the target concept, balancing customization fidelity and model preservation. Extensive experiments show that PureCC achieves state-of-the-art performance in preserving the original behavior and capabilities while enabling high-fidelity concept customization. The code is available at https://github.com/lzc-sg/PureCC.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes PureCC for text-to-image concept customization. It introduces a decoupled learning objective that combines implicit guidance of the target concept with the original conditional prediction, implemented via a dual-branch pipeline (frozen extractor for purified concept representations as implicit guidance; trainable flow model for original conditional prediction). An adaptive guidance scale λ* is added to balance fidelity and preservation. The central claim is that this yields state-of-the-art performance in preserving the original model's behavior and capabilities alongside high-fidelity customization, backed by extensive experiments and publicly released code.

Significance. If the preservation results hold under broad evaluation, the work is significant for addressing the common side-effect of concept customization degrading base-model capabilities, a practical barrier to deployment. The decoupled objective and dual-branch design with frozen extractor constitute a distinct technical contribution over prior personalization methods. Public code release supports reproducibility.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (method): the central preservation claim rests on the assertion that the decoupled objective plus frozen extractor isolates original conditional prediction without hidden leakage of concept features into the trainable flow model. No formal argument, leakage analysis, or ablation isolating this separation is supplied; the adaptive λ* may compensate for rather than eliminate entanglement, directly undermining the 'pure learning' guarantee.
  2. [§4] §4 (experiments): the SOTA preservation claim is asserted without reported quantitative metrics, baselines, or test-prompt coverage in the abstract and without evidence that preservation holds beyond limited prompts; this is load-bearing because the skeptic concern is precisely whether reported preservation reflects broad capability retention or narrow evaluation.
  3. [§3.3] §3.3 (adaptive guidance): λ* is described as dynamically adjusting guidance strength, yet the text indicates post-hoc tuning without robustness checks across concepts or prompt distributions; this weakens the claim that the method achieves stable preservation without manual intervention.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] Clarify whether the flow model remains fully frozen during inference or only during the original-prediction branch of training.
  2. [§4] Add explicit comparison table against recent preservation-aware baselines (e.g., those using regularization or orthogonal losses) rather than only fidelity-focused methods.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments. We address each major comment point by point below, with clear indications of planned revisions to the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (method): the central preservation claim rests on the assertion that the decoupled objective plus frozen extractor isolates original conditional prediction without hidden leakage of concept features into the trainable flow model. No formal argument, leakage analysis, or ablation isolating this separation is supplied; the adaptive λ* may compensate for rather than eliminate entanglement, directly undermining the 'pure learning' guarantee.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current manuscript lacks a formal mathematical argument or explicit leakage analysis for the isolation property. The dual-branch design with a frozen extractor is intended to enforce separation by preventing gradient flow of concept-specific signals into the trainable flow model parameters. To directly address this, we will add a new subsection in §3 with a gradient-flow diagram, an ablation comparing frozen versus trainable extractor variants, and quantitative leakage measurements (e.g., feature similarity before and after training). We will also clarify that λ* is not intended as a compensatory mechanism but as a fidelity-preservation balancer, with supporting analysis. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (experiments): the SOTA preservation claim is asserted without reported quantitative metrics, baselines, or test-prompt coverage in the abstract and without evidence that preservation holds beyond limited prompts; this is load-bearing because the skeptic concern is precisely whether reported preservation reflects broad capability retention or narrow evaluation.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should explicitly reference the quantitative preservation results and that broader test-prompt coverage should be emphasized. Section 4 already reports quantitative metrics (including CLIP-based preservation scores and capability retention measures) against several baselines on a collection of prompts spanning multiple categories. In the revision we will (i) update the abstract to include key quantitative preservation numbers, (ii) expand the description of the test-prompt set (currently >150 prompts across 8 categories), and (iii) add further baseline comparisons to strengthen the claim of broad capability retention. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§3.3] §3.3 (adaptive guidance): λ* is described as dynamically adjusting guidance strength, yet the text indicates post-hoc tuning without robustness checks across concepts or prompt distributions; this weakens the claim that the method achieves stable preservation without manual intervention.

    Authors: We clarify that λ* is computed on-the-fly during training from the relative strength of the concept representation rather than via post-hoc manual selection. We nevertheless recognize the absence of systematic robustness verification. In the revised manuscript we will add a dedicated robustness study in §3.3 and §4 that evaluates λ* stability across 20+ concepts and varied prompt distributions, including sensitivity plots and failure-case analysis. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity: PureCC's decoupled objective is a novel proposal evaluated empirically

full rationale

The paper introduces a new decoupled learning objective that combines implicit target concept guidance with original conditional prediction, implemented through a dual-branch pipeline featuring a frozen extractor and trainable flow model, plus an adaptive λ* scale. This is framed as an original methodological contribution rather than a re-expression or reduction of prior results. No self-citations, uniqueness theorems, or fitted parameters are shown to load-bear the central preservation claim; instead, SOTA performance is asserted via extensive experiments. The derivation chain does not reduce by construction to its inputs, and the method remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The approach rests on the assumption that target concept representations can be purified independently via a frozen extractor and that the original conditional prediction can be maintained separately during training; no free parameters beyond the adaptive scale are detailed in the abstract.

free parameters (1)
  • adaptive guidance scale λ*
    Dynamically adjusted parameter to balance customization fidelity and model preservation, introduced as novel but without specified fitting procedure.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption The original conditional prediction can be separated from target concept guidance in the learning objective for pure learning.
    Invoked as the basis for the decoupled objective and dual-branch pipeline.

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