DiffExp: Efficient Exploration in Reward Fine-tuning for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Daewon Chae, June Suk Choi, Jinkyu Kim, Kimin Lee
2/19/2025
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Fine-tuning text-to-image diffusion models to maximize rewards has proven effective for enhancing model performance. However, reward fine-tuning methods often suffer from slow convergence due to online sample generation. Therefore, obtaining diverse samples with strong reward signals is crucial for improving sample efficiency and overall performance. In this work, we introduce DiffExp, a simple yet effective exploration strategy for reward fine-tuning of text-to-image models. Our approach employs two key strategies: (a) dynamically adjusting the scale of classifier-free guidance to enhance sample diversity, and (b) randomly weighting phrases of the text prompt to exploit high-quality reward signals. We demonstrate that these strategies significantly enhance exploration during online sample generation, improving the sample efficiency of recent reward fine-tuning methods, such as DDPO and AlignProp.

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@article{chae2025diffexp,
  title  = {DiffExp: Efficient Exploration in Reward Fine-tuning for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models},
  author = {Daewon Chae and June Suk Choi and Jinkyu Kim and Kimin Lee},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2502.14070},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14070v1}
}

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