Personalized Preference Fine-tuning of Diffusion Models
Meihua Dang, Anikait Singh, Linqi Zhou, Stefano Ermon, Jiaming Song
Abstract
RLHF techniques like DPO can significantly improve the generation quality of text-to-image diffusion models. However, these methods optimize for a single reward that aligns model generation with population-level preferences, neglecting the nuances of individual users' beliefs or values. This lack of personalization limits the efficacy of these models. To bridge this gap, we introduce PPD, a multi-reward optimization objective that aligns diffusion models with personalized preferences. With PPD, a diffusion model learns the individual preferences of a population of users in a fewshot way, enabling generalization to unseen users. Specifically, our approach (1) leverages a vision-language model (VLM) to extract personal preference embeddings from a small set of pairwise preference examples, and then (2) incorporates the embeddings into diffusion models through cross attention. Conditioning on user embeddings, the textto-image models are fine-tuned with the DPO objective, simultaneously optimizing for alignment with the preferences of multiple users. Empirical results demonstrate that our method effectively optimizes for multiple reward functions and can interpolate between them during inference. In realworld user scenarios, with as few as four preference examples from a new user, our approach achieves an average win rate of 76% over Stable Cascade, generating images that more accurately reflect specific user preferences. → Equal contributions. Work done during MD's internship at Luma AI.
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