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arxiv: 2605.14876 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-14 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.AI

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Unlocking Complex Visual Generation via Closed-Loop Verified Reasoning

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CLVR couples verified logical planning with pixel diffusion, uses proxy reinforcement learning on distilled histories, and merges weights to cut inference to 4 NFEs while outperforming open-source T2I models on complex benchmarks.

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Text-to-image models usually create an entire picture in one pass, which works for simple scenes but fails when descriptions involve many objects, relations, or sequences. CLVR breaks generation into explicit reasoning steps: it plans the scene in language, generates image patches, then uses a visual checker to confirm each step matches the plan before continuing. An automated engine creates training data by running this loop and keeping only verified trajectories. To train the planner without unstable long contexts, the system distills past steps into short reward signals via Proxy Prompt Reinforcement Learning. Finally, a weight-merging trick called Delta-Space Weight Merge combines alignment knowledge with fast distillation priors so each denoising step needs only four network evaluations instead of dozens. Experiments claim the resulting system beats other open models and nears closed commercial systems on benchmarks that test detailed, multi-object scenes.

Core claim

CLVR outperforms existing open-source baselines across multiple benchmarks and approaches the performance of proprietary commercial models, unlocking general test-time scaling capabilities for complex visual generation.

Load-bearing premise

The automated data engine with step-level visual verification can reliably synthesize reasoning trajectories that are free of planning hallucinations and representative of real user prompts.

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Despite rapid advancements, current text-to-image (T2I) models predominantly rely on a single-step generation paradigm, which struggles with complex semantics and faces diminishing returns from parameter scaling. While recent multi-step reasoning approaches show promise, they are hindered by ungrounded planning hallucinations lacking verification, monolithic post-hoc reflection, long-context optimization instabilities, and prohibitive inference latency. To overcome these bottlenecks, we propose the Closed-Loop Visual Reasoning (CLVR) framework, a comprehensive system that deeply couples visual-language logical planning with pixel-level diffusion generation. CLVR introduces an automated data engine with step-level visual verification to synthesize reliable reasoning trajectories, and proposes Proxy Prompt Reinforcement Learning (PPRL) to resolve long-context optimization instabilities by distilling interleaved multimodal histories into explicit reward signals for accurate causal attribution. Furthermore, to mitigate the severe latency bottleneck caused by iterative denoising, we propose $\Delta$-Space Weight Merge (DSWM), a theoretically grounded method that fuses alignment weights with off-the-shelf distillation priors, reducing the per-step inference cost to just 4 NFEs without requiring expensive re-distillation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CLVR outperforms existing open-source baselines across multiple benchmarks and approaches the performance of proprietary commercial models, unlocking general test-time scaling capabilities for complex visual generation.

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Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

2 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on the assumption that visual verification can be automated reliably and that weight merging preserves alignment without re-training; no explicit free parameters are named but reward-signal distillation and merge coefficients are implicit tuning points.

free parameters (2)
  • PPRL reward distillation coefficients
    Distilled from interleaved multimodal histories; values chosen to stabilize long-context training.
  • DSWM merge weights
    Fused alignment weights with distillation priors; scaling factors required to achieve 4-NFE performance.
axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Step-level visual verification can detect and filter planning hallucinations without introducing new biases
    Invoked in the automated data engine description.
  • domain assumption Delta-space weight merge preserves generative quality while reducing NFEs
    Stated as theoretically grounded but no derivation supplied in abstract.

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