2026
From Broad Exploration to Stable Synthesis: Entropy-Guided Optimization for Autoregressive Image Generation
ICLR 2026poster
Combining Chain-of-Thought (CoT) with Reinforcement Learning (RL) improves text-to-image (T2I) generation, yet the underlying interaction between CoT's exploration and RL's optimization remains unclear. We present a systematic entropy-based analysis that yields three key insights: (1) CoT expands th…