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Creative Image Generation with Diffusion Model

Published: January 29, 2026 | arXiv ID: 2601.22125v1

By: Kunpeng Song, Ahmed Elgammal

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computers create brand new, surprising pictures.

Business Areas:
Image Recognition Data and Analytics, Software

Creative image generation has emerged as a compelling area of research, driven by the need to produce novel and high-quality images that expand the boundaries of imagination. In this work, we propose a novel framework for creative generation using diffusion models, where creativity is associated with the inverse probability of an image's existence in the CLIP embedding space. Unlike prior approaches that rely on a manual blending of concepts or exclusion of subcategories, our method calculates the probability distribution of generated images and drives it towards low-probability regions to produce rare, imaginative, and visually captivating outputs. We also introduce pullback mechanisms, achieving high creativity without sacrificing visual fidelity. Extensive experiments on text-to-image diffusion models demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of our creative generation framework, showcasing its ability to produce unique, novel, and thought-provoking images. This work provides a new perspective on creativity in generative models, offering a principled method to foster innovation in visual content synthesis.

Country of Origin
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ United States

Page Count
21 pages

Category
Computer Science:
CV and Pattern Recognition