#machine learning
May 2026
Beyond Pairwise Preferences: Listwise Reward-Aware Alignment for Diffusion Models
Diffusion LAIR is proposed, a reward-aware listwise preference optimization method for diffusion models that outperforms strong preference optimization baselines on SD1.5 and SDXL across text-to-image generation, compositional generation, and image editing benchmarks.
Austin S. Wang, Jiaqi Han, S. Ermon et al.
· arXiv.org · 1 citation