Verifiable visual rewards let image generators train on synthetic scenes and transfer to natural prompts

Authors show that deterministic Python verifiers, replacing learned reward models, improve counting and spatial relation accuracy in text-to-image models.

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Shuyue Stella Li · Xiaochuang Han · Yulia Tsvetkov · Luke Zettlemoyer

University of Washington

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The authors propose VVR, the first framework for programmatically verifiable image rewards.

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Programmatically verifiable visual rewards, trained with reinforcement learning, transfer from synthetic geometric scenes to natural image prompts, improving instruction following.

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