FoR-SALE: Frame of Reference-guided Spatial Adjustment in LLM-based Diffusion Editing

arXiv:2509.23452v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current text-to-image generation models, even state-of-the-art models, exhibit a significant performance gap when spatial expressions are described from non-camera perspectives. To address this limitation, we propose Frame of Reference-guided Spatial Adjustment in LLM-based Diffusion Editing (FoR-SALE), an extension of the Self-correcting LLM-controlled Diffusion (SLD). FoR-SALE first evaluates the alignment between a given text and an initially generated image, and then refines the image based on the expressed FoR in the spatial description. It employs vision modules to extract the spatial configuration of the generated image and simultaneously maps the spatial expression to a corresponding camera perspective. This unified perspective enables direct evaluation of alignment between language and vision. When misalignment is detected, the required editing operations are generated and applied. FoR-SALE introduces novel latent-space operations to adjust the facing direction and depth of generated images. We evaluate FoR-SALE on three benchmarks designed to assess spatial understanding with FoR: FoR-LMD, FoREST, and FoREST-G, with the latter providing diagnostic subsets covering multi-object scenes, expanded relation types, and naturalized prompts to test the generality of our framework. Our framework improves the performance of SOTA T2I models by up to 7.0 pp using only a single round of correction.

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Source: arXiv cs.CL | 2026-08-12