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Tiled Prompts: Overcoming Prompt Misguidance in Image and Video Super-Resolution

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Tiled prompts overcome prompt misguidance in super-resolution by conditioning each latent tile on its own local text description.

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The paper establishes that global captions in latent-tiled diffusion super-resolution produce both omission of local details and commission of irrelevant guidance, resulting in hallucinations and tile artifacts. Tiled Prompts fixes this by generating a separate prompt for every tile and running the diffusion process under the corresponding local posterior. A reader cares because the fix adds little compute yet improves fidelity and perceptual quality on real high-resolution images and videos, and it works uniformly for both images and video sequences. The core mechanism is the shift from one shared semantic prior to many tile-specific priors.

Core claim

A single global caption used with latent tiling causes prompt misguidance: coarse text misses localized details (omission errors) and supplies locally irrelevant guidance (commission errors). Tiled Prompts generates a tile-specific prompt for each latent tile and performs super-resolution under the locally text-conditioned posterior, resolving both error types with minimal overhead. Experiments on high-resolution real-world images and videos confirm consistent gains in perceptual quality and fidelity together with fewer hallucinations and tile-level artifacts than global-prompt baselines.

What carries the argument

Tiled Prompts framework that generates and applies a distinct text prompt to each latent tile rather than a single global caption.

If this is right

  • Consistent gains in perceptual quality and fidelity appear on real high-resolution images and videos.
  • Hallucinations and tile-level artifacts decrease compared with global-prompt baselines.
  • The same tiled-prompt procedure unifies image and video super-resolution without separate pipelines.
  • Overhead remains minimal because prompt generation is performed once per tile before diffusion.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same local-prompt idea could be tested on other tiled diffusion tasks such as inpainting or outpainting where global text also produces local inconsistencies.
  • Automatic methods for creating the per-tile prompts might be swapped in without changing the rest of the pipeline, offering a modular upgrade path.
  • Real-time or streaming video applications could benefit if the tile prompts are pre-computed or predicted from neighboring frames.

Load-bearing premise

Tile-specific prompts can be generated accurately enough to correct both omission and commission errors in local regions while adding only minimal overhead.

What would settle it

A controlled test set of high-resolution images and videos in which tiled-prompt outputs show no measurable reduction in hallucination rate or tile artifacts relative to the global-prompt baseline when measured by the same perceptual and fidelity metrics.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2602.03342 by Bryan Sangwoo Kim, Jong Chul Ye, Jonghyun Park.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: (Left) Relying on a single, global prompt for the latent tiling strategy during super-resolution causes prompt misguidance, leading to suboptimal reconstructions. (Right) Using tiled prompts solves ambiguity and provides accurate localized guidance needed to reconstruct high-quality details. For example, text on signs are correctly generated only when their corresponding prompts are provided. Abstract. Tex… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: (a) Baseline Methods: Conditioning super-resolution models solely on a sin￾gle global text prompt demonstrates the problem of prompt misguidance. The global prompt, while broadly describing the image, proves insufficient to constrain the fine￾grained super-resolution process. (b) Our Method (Tiled Prompts): Our frame￾work leverages dense, context-aware tiled prompts for each region. This localized tex￾tual… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Our Tiled Prompts framework for VSR divides the low-resolution video into a grid of spatio-temporal blocks (or volumes), where each block is tiled both spatially and temporally. A VLM then analyzes the local video content and generates a detailed text prompt to guide the reconstruction of the specific block. This trend toward text-conditioned super-resolution extends naturally to Video Super-Resolution (VS… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative results for image super-resolution. (a,b) Input: The low-resolution input and a cropped tile to be upsampled. (c) SR with Global Prompt: The base￾line result using only a single, coarse global prompt. As the text prompt does not pro￾vide sufficient guidance, super-resolution results are inaccurate. (d) SR with Tiled Prompt (Ours): Our method uses dense, localized textual guidance to generate ac… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative results for video super-resolution. (a,b) Input: A low-resolution input frame and its cropped tile before SR. (c) SR with Global Prompt: Using only a coarse global prompt does not provide sufficient guidance, causing inaccurate SR results. (d) SR with Tiled Prompt (Ours): Our method of using dense, localized textual guidance proves effectively reconstructs details in videos [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:fi… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: NIQE (lower is better), CLIPIQA and MUSIQ (higher is better) are re￾ported across varying CFG scales, showing that tiled (local) prompts yield increasingly stronger improvements over the global prompt baseline as CFG increases. 5.3 Further Discussion Runtime Analysis. Tab. 4 shows that the additional computation introduced by our framework incurs negligible overhead relative to the overall super-resolution… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: Additional qualitative results on the SISR model DiT4SR comparing (a,b) the input image and its low-resolution crop, (c) SR results using the global prompt, and (d) SR results using the tiled prompt. The text prompt below depicts a relevant part of the tiled prompt used to mitigate prompt misguidance and effectively guide the super-resolution process [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Additional qualitative results on the VSR model STAR comparing (a,b) the input image and its low-resolution crop, (c) SR results using the global prompt, and (d) SR results using the tiled prompt. The text prompt below depicts a relevant part of the tiled prompt used to mitigate prompt misguidance and effectively guide the super-resolution process [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_8.png] view at source ↗
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Text-conditioned diffusion models have advanced image and video super-resolution by using prompts as semantic priors, and modern super-resolution pipelines typically rely on latent tiling to scale to high resolutions. In practice, a single global caption is used with the latent tiling, often causing prompt misguidance. Specifically, a coarse global prompt often misses localized details (errors of omission) and provides locally irrelevant guidance (errors of commission) which leads to substandard results at the tile level. To solve this, we propose Tiled Prompts, a unified framework for image and video super-resolution that generates a tile-specific prompt for each latent tile and performs super-resolution under locally text-conditioned posteriors to resolve prompt misguidance with minimal overhead. Our experiments on high resolution real-world images and videos show that tiled prompts bring consistent gains in perceptual quality and fidelity, while reducing hallucinations and tile-level artifacts that can be found in global-prompt baselines. Project Page: https://bryanswkim.github.io/tiled-prompts/.

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes Tiled Prompts, a unified framework for diffusion-based image and video super-resolution that replaces a single global caption with per-tile text prompts generated for each latent tile. This is intended to correct prompt misguidance arising from errors of omission (missed local details) and commission (locally irrelevant guidance) when latent tiling is used to scale to high resolutions, while incurring only minimal overhead. Experiments on high-resolution real-world images and videos are reported to yield consistent gains in perceptual quality and fidelity together with fewer hallucinations and tile-level artifacts relative to global-prompt baselines.

Significance. If the quantitative results and ablations hold, the work supplies a lightweight, practical fix for a recurring limitation in tiled high-resolution generation pipelines. The unified treatment of images and video, together with the emphasis on local semantic conditioning, could be adopted quickly in existing SR workflows and may reduce the need for heavier architectural changes.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of 'consistent gains in perceptual quality and fidelity' and 'reducing hallucinations and tile-level artifacts' is stated without any numerical metrics, dataset sizes, or baseline comparisons; the full manuscript must supply tables reporting LPIPS, FID, or human preference scores together with statistical significance to substantiate the claim.
  2. [§3] §3 (Method): the mechanism for generating tile-specific prompts is described only at a high level; it is unclear whether a VLM is applied independently per tile, how tile context or overlap is handled, and whether any verification of prompt accuracy (e.g., CLIP similarity to local ground-truth regions) is performed. This detail is load-bearing because inaccurate local prompts would fail to resolve omission/commission errors and could introduce new artifacts.
  3. [§4] §4 (Experiments): no ablation isolating the contribution of prompt quality from the mere act of tiling is reported. Without such controls it remains possible that observed improvements stem from increased conditioning diversity rather than the proposed correction of misguidance, undermining the causal link asserted in the abstract.
minor comments (2)
  1. Figure captions should explicitly state the resolution of the input images/videos and the number of tiles used so that readers can reproduce the exact experimental setting.
  2. [Abstract] The project-page URL in the abstract should be checked for accessibility and should contain the promised code and model weights.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback and positive assessment of the significance of Tiled Prompts. We address each major comment point by point below, indicating planned revisions where they strengthen the manuscript without altering its core contributions.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim of 'consistent gains in perceptual quality and fidelity' and 'reducing hallucinations and tile-level artifacts' is stated without any numerical metrics, dataset sizes, or baseline comparisons; the full manuscript must supply tables reporting LPIPS, FID, or human preference scores together with statistical significance to substantiate the claim.

    Authors: The full manuscript already supplies the requested tables in §4, including LPIPS, FID, and human preference scores with baseline comparisons on datasets of specified sizes. To directly address the abstract's conciseness, we will revise it to include key quantitative highlights (e.g., average metric gains) drawn from those tables while remaining within length limits. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3] §3 (Method): the mechanism for generating tile-specific prompts is described only at a high level; it is unclear whether a VLM is applied independently per tile, how tile context or overlap is handled, and whether any verification of prompt accuracy (e.g., CLIP similarity to local ground-truth regions) is performed. This detail is load-bearing because inaccurate local prompts would fail to resolve omission/commission errors and could introduce new artifacts.

    Authors: We agree the current description in §3 is high-level. The framework applies a VLM independently to each latent tile's visual features, incorporates overlapping tile context via shared global scene information, and blends adjacent prompts for consistency. No explicit post-generation verification (such as CLIP similarity checks) is performed. We will expand §3 with additional procedural details, pseudocode, and a brief discussion of prompt accuracy to make the mechanism fully transparent. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [§4] §4 (Experiments): no ablation isolating the contribution of prompt quality from the mere act of tiling is reported. Without such controls it remains possible that observed improvements stem from increased conditioning diversity rather than the proposed correction of misguidance, undermining the causal link asserted in the abstract.

    Authors: We respectfully note that the existing experimental design already isolates the contribution of prompt quality. All reported baselines employ identical latent tiling and diffusion pipelines; the sole variable is global versus per-tile prompt conditioning. Observed gains in perceptual quality, fidelity, and reduced tile artifacts are therefore attributable to the correction of omission/commission errors rather than tiling or diversity effects alone. We will add a clarifying sentence in §4 to make this isolation explicit. revision: no

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical framework with independent experimental support

full rationale

The paper introduces Tiled Prompts as a practical framework for addressing prompt misguidance via per-tile prompt generation in diffusion-based super-resolution. No equations, derivations, or fitted parameters are present that could reduce to self-definition or construction. Claims rest on experimental results from high-resolution images and videos rather than any self-referential logic, self-citation chains, or renamed known results. The central mechanism (tile-specific prompting) is presented as a novel engineering choice with reported perceptual gains, not as a quantity derived from its own inputs.

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