Beyond Starry Night: Shortcut-Aware Control-State Planning for Artist-Grounded Text to Image Generation

arXiv:2608.06751 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-07 · Read on arXiv

Kuan Xing, Ye Wang, Changyi Gan, Yuheng Li, Thao Nguyen, Yi Chang, Yilin Wang

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-07

Updated: 2026-08-10

Comments: 47 pages, 13 figures, including appendices. Kuan Xing and Ye Wang contributed equally

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Composition — 62× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Planner — 41× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generator — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• World Model — 11× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Nano Banana Pro — 9× in this paper
• Calibration — 8× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Ablation — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Commentary — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 6× in this paper · explained in 10 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 6× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Personalization — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Confidence Calibration — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 4× in this paper · explained in 14 episodes
• LLM judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Papers — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Sufficiency — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Iterative Refinement — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Shortcut Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Shortcut Substitution Rate — 3× in this paper
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Downstream Tasks — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Protocol — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformers — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Coherence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Nash Equilibrium — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Prompt Adherence — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Rectified Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Preservation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Shortcut-Aware Artistic Control Planning — 1× in this paper
• Structural Control — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-language models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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• HunyuanImage 3.0 Technical Report
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• DreamSim: Learning New Dimensions of Human Visual Similarity using Synthetic Data
• Does AI See like Art Historians? Interpreting How Vision Language Models Recognize Artistic Style
• LongCat-Image Technical Report
• Tool Learning with Foundation Models
• Grounded SAM: Assembling Open-World Models for Diverse Visual Tasks
• Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning
• StyleDrop: Text-to-Image Generation in Any Style
• Qwen-Image Technical Report
• PhotoAgent: Exploratory Visual Aesthetic Planning with Large Vision Models
• IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
• Agent Banana: High-Fidelity Image Editing with Agentic Thinking and Tooling
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• AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea
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