2026
DETONATE – A Benchmark for Text-to-Image Alignment and Kernelized Direct Preference Optimization
Renjith Prasad Kaippilly Mana, Abhilekh Borah, Hasnat Md Abdullah, Chathurangi Shyalika, Gurpreet Singh, Ritvik Garimella +6
AAAI 2026technical
Alignment is crucial for text-to-image (T2I) models to ensure that the generated images faithfully capture user intent while maintaining safety and fairness. Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a key alignment technique for large language models (LLMs), and its influence is now exten