NoisePO: Efficient Semantic Noise Generation and Ranking for Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Synthesis

Diffusion-based methods have achieved remarkable success in photorealistic image generation, leveraging iterative denoising steps to improve image quality. However, multi-step denoising often suffers from error accumulation-similar to exposure bias in autoregressive models-due to suboptimal noise estimation, which can lead to degraded semantic alignment and image fidelity. To tackle the challenge of suboptimal inner latent representations in generation and improve the inner latent, this paper introduces a novel method NoisePO, an efficient semantic noise preference optimization framework. NoisePO employs a semantic noise preference optimization generative adversarial network (NPO-GAN) and noise ranking methods to search for semantically relevant noises based on textual conditions, thus eliminating undesired semantic features while emphasizing the necessary semantic ones. Specifically, NoisePO utilizes a light NPO-GAN to generate semantic noises that encourage the latent at the previous step to incorporate more semantic information from the caption. Then, light ranking models are employed to filter out low-quality noises and select the best noise. Experimental results demonstrate that NoisePO consistently outperforms the baselines across widely used frameworks, achieving notable improvements in image quality, semantic consistency, and user-specific alignment as measured by IS, FID, CLIP, and other metrics. These results indicate that NoisePO effectively enhances synthesis quality and strengthens text-image alignment.