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Premier: Personalized Preference Modulation with Learnable User Embedding in Text-to-Image Generation

Zihao Wang , Yuxiang Wei , Xinpeng Zhou , Tianyu Zhang , Tao Liang , Yalong Bai , Hongzhi Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

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keywords personalized text-to-image generationuser embeddingpreference modulationdispersion losspreference adapterimage personalizationlearnable embeddingdiffusion modulation

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Premier learns distinct user preference embeddings that fuse with text prompts to personalize image generation.

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The paper presents Premier as a framework that encodes each user's visual preferences as a dedicated learnable embedding rather than deriving them from language models. This embedding passes through a preference adapter that combines it with the input prompt, after which the combined signal modulates the underlying generative model at multiple stages. A dispersion loss is added during training to keep different users' embeddings well separated, which improves style fidelity. When data for a new user is limited, the system approximates the preference as a linear combination of embeddings already learned from prior users, allowing immediate personalization without retraining.

Core claim

Premier represents each user's preference as a learnable embedding and introduces a preference adapter that fuses the user embedding with the text prompt. The fused preference embedding is further used to modulate the generative process. A dispersion loss enforces separation among user embeddings to enhance distinctness and alignment. When user data are scarce, new users are represented as linear combinations of existing preference embeddings learned during training.

What carries the argument

The learnable user preference embedding combined with a preference adapter that fuses it into the text prompt and modulates generation.

If this is right

Stronger preference alignment than prior methods when both use the same length of user history.
Improved text consistency and higher scores on ViPer proxy metrics.
Better results according to expert human evaluations.
Effective personalization for new users without requiring large amounts of their own data.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

The linear-combination approach for new users could be tested as a lightweight way to initialize personalization in other conditional generation tasks.
Because embeddings are kept separate by the dispersion loss, the framework might support user-level privacy controls by allowing selective forgetting or isolation of individual embeddings.
If the modulation mechanism proves stable, similar adapters could be explored for video or 3D generation conditioned on the same preference vectors.

Load-bearing premise

User preferences can be faithfully captured by low-dimensional learnable embeddings that stay distinct under dispersion loss and generalize accurately to unseen users via linear combinations of trained embeddings.

What would settle it

An experiment that replaces learned user embeddings with random vectors or untrained linear combinations for new users and measures whether preference alignment, text consistency, and expert ratings drop to the level of non-personalized baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2603.20725 by Hongzhi Zhang, Tao Liang, Tianyu Zhang, Wangmeng Zuo, Xinpeng Zhou, Yalong Bai, Yuxiang Wei, Zihao Wang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: In our approach, user preference descriptions are not required and only user-provided preference images are needed. A learnable [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Premier training framework. (a) During the training of the preference adapters, the user preference embeddings and the adapters are jointly optimized. The block-shared adapter produces a uniform modulation direction across all DiT blocks, whereas the block-distinct adapter generates different modulation directions for different DiT blocks. (b) Each preference adapter takes the learnable user embedding and … view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Qualitative comparisons of Preference Alignment. We compare the performance of our method with other approaches in user preference-aware image generation. The images generated by our method are closest to the user’s preferences while remaining faithful to the user-provided text prompt. 3. Preliminaries 3.1. Diffusion Models Most current image generation models are based on diffusion model, and modern diffu… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: User study results of our method compared with other methods. Each human expert is presented with six historical preference images from the user, along with image pairs generated by our method and other baselines under the same text prompt. Experts are asked to select the image that best aligns with both the user’s preferences and the input text. images, the learnable user embedding can be better adapted t… view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Qualitative ablation comparison of our method. Ablating either of the two preference adapters leads to a significant performance drop, confirming their necessity. Ablating the text-preference modulation also degrades user-preference-aware image generation. Data Flux [18] InstantStyle [36] Bagel [7] Qwen Image Edit [41] DrUM [17] ViPer [30] Ours ViPer Score↑ 0.8890 0.3953 0.6277 0.5075 0.4688 0.4791 0.5159 … view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: The relationship between LPIPS and user history length. Our linear combination approach demonstrates a more pronounced advantage in LPIPS, consistently outperforming direct training when the history size is up to 16 samples. Ours Ours w/o Disp Loss User 18117 User 17967 User 18148 User 18132 User 18113 Some people sitting at tables with some big umbrellas [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Qualitative dispersion loss ablation comparison of our method. After ablating the dispersion loss, the generated preference images across different users exhibit substantially reduced variation. between generated images and the user’s preferred images under the same prompt, with lower LPIPS scores indicating closer adherence to user preferences. 5.2. Preference Alignment Comparison To demonstrate the effe… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: Qualitative comparison of our method across different user history lengths and different training strategy When the amount of user history is limited, training linear combination coefficients yields more stable performance. differences and transfer the desired attributes, such as style and color, into the new image. InstantStyle is given a single user preference image as its reference. As shown in [PITH_… view at source ↗

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Text-to-image generation has advanced rapidly, yet it still struggles to capture the nuanced user preferences. Existing approaches typically rely on multimodal large language models to infer user preferences, but the derived prompts or latent codes rarely reflect them faithfully, leading to suboptimal personalization. We present Premier, a novel preference modulation framework for personalized image generation. Premier represents each user's preference as a learnable embedding and introduces a preference adapter that fuses the user embedding with the text prompt. To enable accurate and fine-grained preference control, the fused preference embedding is further used to modulate the generative process. To enhance the distinctness of individual preference and improve alignment between outputs and user-specific styles, we incorporate a dispersion loss that enforces separation among user embeddings. When user data are scarce, new users are represented as linear combinations of existing preference embeddings learned during training, enabling effective generalization. Experiments show that Premier outperforms prior methods under the same history length, achieving stronger preference alignment and superior performance on text consistency, ViPer proxy metrics, and expert evaluations.

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Premier's learnable user embeddings plus linear combo fallback is a practical recipe for T2I personalization, but the generalization claim rests on an untested linear-span assumption.

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Premier learns a distinct embedding per user to capture preferences, fuses it with the text prompt through a preference adapter, and uses the result to modulate the generative process in a text-to-image model. A dispersion loss pushes the embeddings apart, and new users with little data are handled by expressing them as linear combinations of the trained embeddings. This is the concrete new piece: the full stack of learnable embeddings, adapter fusion, modulation, dispersion, and the linear fallback in one framework. It moves past pure prompt rewriting from MLLMs and gives an explicit way to keep user signals separate without per-user fine-tuning at inference time. The approach is straightforward to implement on top of existing diffusion backbones and directly targets the scarce-history regime that matters in practice. The components themselves are standard, so the contribution is in the combination and the low-data handling rather than any exotic math. The dispersion loss is a clear, reproducible objective for separation, and the linear combo is a simple, parameter-free way to generalize without extra optimization. That said, the central claim for unseen users assumes real preferences lie in the linear span of the learned embeddings and that coefficients can be recovered reliably from a handful of examples. If preferences have structure outside that span, the reported gains on alignment and ViPer metrics would not transfer. The abstract states outperformance on text consistency, preference alignment, and expert evaluations under matched history lengths, but supplies no baseline details, metric definitions, significance tests, or data-split information, so the size of the improvement is still unclear. This paper is for researchers working on user-specific generation in diffusion models. Readers who need a deployable personalization method with explicit low-data support would get immediate value from the recipe. It deserves a serious referee to check whether the linear assumption holds in the experiments and whether the gains survive proper controls.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces Premier, a preference modulation framework for personalized text-to-image generation. Each user is represented by a learnable embedding; a preference adapter fuses this embedding with the text prompt, and the fused representation modulates the generative process. A dispersion loss encourages separation among embeddings. For users with scarce data, new preference vectors are formed as linear combinations of the embeddings learned on the training set. Experiments report that Premier outperforms prior methods at matched history lengths on preference alignment, text consistency, ViPer proxy metrics, and expert evaluations.

Significance. If the linear-combination generalization holds and the reported metric gains are robust, the work would offer a practical, low-data route to user-specific control that avoids per-user fine-tuning or heavy reliance on MLLM inference. The dispersion loss and adapter are incremental but well-motivated extensions of existing embedding techniques.

major comments (2)

[Method (generalization subsection)] The central generalization claim (new users represented as linear combinations of training embeddings) is load-bearing yet unsupported by any analysis showing that the dispersion loss produces an embedding space whose convex hull covers the distribution of real user preferences. Without such evidence or a controlled ablation on coefficient recovery from few examples, the reported gains for low-history regimes cannot be distinguished from overfitting to the training user set.
[Experiments] The abstract and experimental claims assert consistent outperformance on preference alignment, text consistency, ViPer metrics, and expert scores, but no table or section provides the exact baseline implementations, metric definitions, statistical significance tests, or train/test user splits. This absence prevents verification that post-hoc choices were not made after observing results.

minor comments (2)

[Method] Notation for the fused preference embedding and the modulation operation should be introduced with explicit equations rather than prose descriptions to improve reproducibility.
[Method] The paper should clarify whether the linear coefficients for unseen users are obtained by a closed-form solve, a small optimization step, or another procedure, and report the computational cost of this step.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and describe the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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Referee: [Method (generalization subsection)] The central generalization claim (new users represented as linear combinations of training embeddings) is load-bearing yet unsupported by any analysis showing that the dispersion loss produces an embedding space whose convex hull covers the distribution of real user preferences. Without such evidence or a controlled ablation on coefficient recovery from few examples, the reported gains for low-history regimes cannot be distinguished from overfitting to the training user set.

Authors: We appreciate the referee's concern regarding the generalization mechanism. The dispersion loss is explicitly designed to encourage separation among user embeddings, creating a basis in which new preferences can be expressed as linear combinations. We agree that direct evidence for convex-hull coverage and coefficient recovery would strengthen the claim. In the revised manuscript we will add (i) a quantitative analysis and visualization of the learned embedding space (including convex-hull coverage metrics) and (ii) a controlled ablation that recovers combination coefficients from few-shot examples of held-out users and reports the resulting preference-alignment performance. These additions will clarify that gains in low-history regimes arise from the proposed linear-combination approach rather than overfitting. revision: yes
Referee: [Experiments] The abstract and experimental claims assert consistent outperformance on preference alignment, text consistency, ViPer metrics, and expert scores, but no table or section provides the exact baseline implementations, metric definitions, statistical significance tests, or train/test user splits. This absence prevents verification that post-hoc choices were not made after observing results.

Authors: We acknowledge that the current manuscript lacks sufficient experimental detail for full reproducibility and verification. In the revised version we will expand the Experiments section and add a dedicated appendix that provides: (1) exact code-level descriptions and hyper-parameters for every baseline, (2) precise mathematical definitions and implementation details for all metrics (including ViPer), (3) statistical significance results (paired t-tests or Wilcoxon tests with p-values), and (4) explicit documentation of the train/test user splits and data-partitioning protocol. These changes will eliminate ambiguity about post-hoc decisions. revision: yes

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No significant circularity; derivation relies on standard ML constructs

full rationale

The paper presents a learnable user embedding fused via a preference adapter, modulated into the generative process, with a dispersion loss for separation and linear combination fallback for scarce-data users. These are standard embedding and generalization techniques grounded in external ML literature (e.g., user embeddings in recommendation systems and convex combinations in few-shot adaptation). No equations reduce claimed improvements to fitted parameters by definition, no self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no ansatz is smuggled via prior author work. The central claims rest on experimental comparisons against baselines rather than tautological reductions, making the derivation self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 0 axioms · 1 invented entities

Only abstract available; ledger is therefore minimal and provisional. User embeddings are learned parameters. No explicit axioms or invented physical entities stated.

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user preference embeddings
Learnable vectors per user that encode preference; their dimensionality and initialization are free choices fitted during training.

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preference adapter no independent evidence
purpose: Module that fuses user embedding with text prompt
New architectural component introduced to enable modulation

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