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arxiv: 2606.31924 · v1 · pith:4XGH5EQFnew · submitted 2026-06-30 · 💻 cs.CV

InstanceControl: Controllable Complex Image Generation without Instance Labeling

Xiaoyu Liu , Huan Wang , Fan Li , Zhixin Wang , Jiaqi Xu , Ming Liu , Wangmeng Zuo This is my paper

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keywords controllable image generationmulti-instance scenesvision-language modelsinstance masksadaptive mask refinementdiffusion modelsattribute confusionlabel-free control
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A vision-language model can automatically match text instance descriptions to regions in visual conditions, enabling precise multi-object image control without manual labeling.

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

The paper seeks to establish that controllable generation of complex scenes containing multiple distinct objects can succeed without the usual requirement of hand-labeled instance masks. Existing methods suffer from attribute confusion because they cannot reliably link specific text descriptions to the right parts of inputs such as depth or edge maps. InstanceControl uses a VLM to extract instance descriptions from the prompt and to predict matching masks from the visual conditions, then refines those masks adaptively as generation proceeds. If this works, users could produce detailed, correctly attributed scenes from ordinary prompts and conditions alone.

Core claim

InstanceControl establishes instance-level correspondences by having the VLM parse descriptions from the text prompt and predict instance masks from the visual conditions, then applies adaptive mask refinement during the diffusion process to handle prediction noise, resulting in accurate control over multiple instances in generated images.

What carries the argument

VLM-driven automatic parsing of instance descriptions paired with mask prediction from visual conditions, followed by adaptive refinement of those masks inside the generation loop.

If this is right

  • Multi-instance scenes can be generated from standard text prompts and visual conditions without any instance-level annotation step.
  • Attribute confusion between objects decreases relative to prior controllable diffusion methods that lack explicit instance association.
  • The same visual condition inputs used by ControlNet-style models become sufficient for precise per-object control once VLM parsing is added.
  • Generation quality measured by fidelity and instance accuracy improves over current state-of-the-art approaches on complex scenes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same parsing-plus-refinement pattern could be tested on video or 3D generation tasks that also require region-text alignment.
  • If future VLMs produce cleaner masks, the adaptive refinement module might be simplified or removed while retaining performance.
  • Downstream applications such as interactive scene editing could adopt the method to let users specify object properties via text alone.

Load-bearing premise

The VLM can reliably parse instance descriptions from prompts and predict accurate instance masks from visual conditions, with the adaptive refinement sufficient to handle any noise in those predictions.

What would settle it

Run the method on a collection of prompts describing scenes with many similar or overlapping objects; if attribute swaps such as color or identity between instances remain frequent in the outputs, the central claim does not hold.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.31924 by Fan Li, Huan Wang, Jiaqi Xu, Ming Liu, Wangmeng Zuo, Xiaoyu Liu, Zhixin Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Our proposed InstanceControl achieves fine-grained control over instance at￾tributes in complex multi-instance scenarios. In contrast, FLUX ControlNet [18] often struggles with attribute confusion. Incorrect instances are marked with red boxes, and the corresponding instance descriptions are also highlighted in the prompt. Abstract. Controllable image generation methods, such as ControlNet, have demonstrat… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: The proposed InstanceControl framework operates in two stages: instance-level text-visual condition association and instance-aware controllable generation. In the first stage, a VLM is used to establish instance-level correspondences C between text prompts and visual conditions. To mitigate noise in predicted masks, the second stage introduces a mask refinement module that adjusts mpred i to mrfn i based o… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Qualitative comparisons in multi-instance scenarios across various image prompts and visual conditions. Our InstanceControl achieves significantly finer at￾tribute control for each instance compared to existing methods. Implementation Details. Our training process consists of two primary stages. In the first stage, we employ the pretrained Sa2VA [59] as our backbone. Low￾Rank Adaptation (LoRA) modules, wit… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Visualization of learned correspondences between text prompts and visual con￾ditions, alongside generated images under different instance numbers [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Visualization of the interactive mask correction [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_5.png] view at source ↗
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Controllable image generation methods, such as ControlNet, have demonstrated a remarkable capacity to introduce visual conditions(e.g., depth maps) to guide image generation. However, these methods often struggle with complex multi-instance scenes, frequently leading to attribute confusion among instances. While recent approaches attempt to mitigate this via manual instance labeling, such requirements are labor-intensive. In this paper, we propose InstanceControl, a novel multi-instance controllable generation method that eliminates the need for instance labeling. We identify the primary bottleneck in existing methods as the inability to accurately associate instance descriptions with their corresponding regions within visual conditions. To address this, we leverage the Vision-Language Model (VLM) to establish instance-level correspondences between text prompts and visual conditions. Specifically, the VLM automatically parses instance descriptions from the text prompts and simultaneously predicts instance masks based on the visual conditions. Furthermore, since the predicted masks may contain noise, we introduce an adaptive mask refinement strategy that dynamically refines these instance masks during the generation process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving superior fidelity and precise instance-level control.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes InstanceControl, a method for multi-instance controllable image generation (e.g., using depth or Canny conditions) that avoids manual instance labeling. It relies on a VLM to automatically parse instance descriptions from text prompts and predict corresponding instance masks directly from the visual conditions, followed by an adaptive mask refinement step during the diffusion process. The authors claim this yields superior fidelity and precise instance-level control compared to prior state-of-the-art methods.

Significance. If the core technical claims are substantiated, the work would address a practical limitation in controllable generation for complex scenes by removing labor-intensive labeling. The use of VLMs to establish text-to-condition correspondences is a conceptually interesting direction, and the adaptive refinement is a reasonable engineering response to prediction noise. However, the absence of supporting validation for the VLM step on non-RGB inputs substantially reduces the assessed significance.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the VLM 'simultaneously predicts instance masks based on the visual conditions' (depth maps, edges, etc.) is load-bearing for the no-labeling contribution, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative mask-quality metrics, ablation studies, or fine-tuning details demonstrating reliable performance on inputs outside standard VLM RGB training distributions.
  2. [Method] Method description: The adaptive mask refinement strategy is presented as sufficient to correct noise in VLM predictions, but without concrete implementation details, equations, or ablation results quantifying its effect on final instance control accuracy, it is impossible to verify whether misalignment in the initial masks is actually resolved.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: Typo/missing space in 'conditions(e.g., depth maps)'.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments correctly identify areas where additional evidence and detail would strengthen the presentation of our claims. We address each point below and will revise the manuscript to incorporate the requested validation and implementation specifics.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The central claim that the VLM 'simultaneously predicts instance masks based on the visual conditions' (depth maps, edges, etc.) is load-bearing for the no-labeling contribution, yet the manuscript provides no quantitative mask-quality metrics, ablation studies, or fine-tuning details demonstrating reliable performance on inputs outside standard VLM RGB training distributions.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript lacks direct quantitative support for VLM mask prediction on non-RGB inputs. The current evaluation focuses on end-to-end generation quality rather than isolated mask metrics. In the revision we will add a dedicated evaluation subsection reporting mask-quality metrics (e.g., mean IoU against human-annotated references) for depth and Canny conditions on a held-out set, plus an ablation that measures the impact of removing the VLM correspondence step. We will also explicitly state that the VLM is used zero-shot without fine-tuning. These additions will directly substantiate the load-bearing claim. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method] Method description: The adaptive mask refinement strategy is presented as sufficient to correct noise in VLM predictions, but without concrete implementation details, equations, or ablation results quantifying its effect on final instance control accuracy, it is impossible to verify whether misalignment in the initial masks is actually resolved.

    Authors: We concur that the current description of adaptive mask refinement is insufficiently detailed. The revision will expand the method section with the exact algorithmic procedure, including the mathematical formulation for timestep-dependent mask updating (the probability adjustment rule and the stopping criterion), pseudocode, and a new ablation table that isolates the refinement module's contribution to instance-level metrics such as attribute-binding accuracy and mask alignment error. This will enable verification that initial misalignments are resolved. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; empirical method with external VLM component

full rationale

The paper describes an empirical pipeline that invokes an off-the-shelf VLM to parse instance descriptions and predict masks from control signals, then applies adaptive refinement. No equations, fitted parameters, or derivations are present. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, and no input is renamed as a prediction. The central claim therefore rests on the (unverified here) performance of the external VLM rather than reducing to a self-referential definition or fit.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

No free parameters, axioms, or invented entities are described in the abstract; this is an applied machine learning method relying on existing VLM capabilities.

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