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CoherenDream: Boosting Holistic Text Coherence in 3D Generation via Multimodal Large Language Models Feedback

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Pith's one-line read Feeding multimodal-LLM text-alignment feedback into score distillation as a correction term fixes object omissions and relational errors in text-to-3D generation.

desk verdict Real novelty in MLLM-guided SDS for 3D, with solid ablations; but the gradient derivation is heuristic and the evaluation is too thin for the claims—still deserves review. read the letter →

arxiv 2504.19860 v3 pith:AL7NYIYH submitted 2025-04-28 cs.CV

classification cs.CV
keywords text-to-3DgenerationscoredistillationsamplingmultimodallargelanguagemodelstextualcoherencescenegraphviewclassificationLLM-layoutinitializationmultiviewconsistency
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) turns a 2D diffusion model into a 3D generator, but when the prompt names several objects with relations, the per-view optimization drifts: objects get dropped and spatial relations go wrong. The paper tries to fix this drift by feeding semantic feedback from a multimodal large language model (MLLM) directly into the SDS gradient as a correction term. The proposed objective, Textual Coherent Score Distillation (TCSD), adds $\lambda\,\delta(T,\hat{x}_0)$ to the diffusion noise prediction, where $\delta$ is the gradient of the critic's cross-entropy loss on one-step-denoised renderings against prompt-derived scene graphs, object lists, and view labels. The authors also fine-tune a critic they call 3DLLaVA-CRITIC on diffusion-noisy multiview grids and warm the 3D representation up with an LLM-chosen layout. On a 45-prompt TIFA subset, CoherenDream improves the TIFA score from 77.4 to 81.4 relative to the strongest multi-view SDS baseline, with gains also on VQAScore and CLIP.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the textual-consistent noise prediction $\hat{\epsilon}_\Phi=\epsilon_\Phi+\lambda\,\delta(T,\hat{x}_0)$, where $\delta(T,\hat{x}_0)=\nabla_{x_t}L_{\mathrm{ce}}(T,f_{\mathrm{cr}}(\hat{x}_0))$ is the gradient of an MLLM critic's cross-entropy loss against prompt-derived targets on a one-step-denoised rendering. It turns a language-model judgment of which objects, relations, and views are present into a differentiable correction to the SDS update direction. The critic is decomposed into three question-answering tasks (scene graph generation, multi-label object classification, and view classification) so the feedback can target global semantics, missing objects, and geometry separately. The auxiliary LLM-layout initialization plays a supporting role by fitting the density field's occupancy to a rough box layout during the first hundreds of steps, so the diffusion prior starts from a semantically plausible arrangement.

What would settle it

Take a fixed 3D scene whose prompt and renderings are deliberately mismatched, for example a prompt naming two macaws playing chess but a scene containing one macaw and no chessboard; one-step denoise renderings across a range of noise levels and check whether the TCSD correction $\delta(T,\hat{x}_0)$ points in the same direction as a trusted alignment score or human judgment. Systematic sign disagreement at high noise would show the feedback proxy is unreliable there.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that the accumulated view-independent bias of SDS can be corrected online by an MLLM that reads the current renderings and reports how faithfully they answer prompt-derived questions. Writing the ideal distribution as $\hat{p}_t(x_t\mid y)=p_t(x_t\mid y)\,p(y\mid x_t)$ and using the score-function identity $\nabla_{x_t}\log p_t(x_t\mid y)=-\epsilon_\Phi/\sqrt{1-\alpha_t}$, the paper replaces the unknown term $\nabla_{x_t}\log p(y\mid x_t)$ with $\lambda\,\nabla_{x_t}L_{\mathrm{ce}}(T,f_{\mathrm{cr}}(\hat{x}_0))$ evaluated on the one-step denoising $\hat{x}_0$, yielding the corrected noise prediction $\hat{\epsilon}_\Phi=\epsilon_\Phi+\lambda\,\delta(T,\hat{x}_0)$ in Eq. (7). The correction is computed for three guidance tasks: scene graph generation, multi-label object classification, and view classification, and it is what lets the optimization steer toward a distribution in which all named objects and their relations appear in a holistic three-dimensional representation. The paper further claims that fine-tuning the critic on view-aware, diffusion-noisy grid images and initializing the scene from an LLM-generated layout make this feedback accurate enough to produce text-coherent results that a vanilla SDS baseline misses.

Load-bearing premise

The correction term assumes the fine-tuned MLLM's cross-entropy loss on one-step-denoised renderings is a faithful, properly scaled differentiable proxy for how well the prompt matches the image, so a miscalibrated critic could push the 3D scene away from user intent.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • TCSD can be applied on top of existing SDS variants: integrating it with JointDreamer fixes omitted objects, and combining it with variational score distillation adds texture fidelity while keeping prompt alignment.
  • Because the correction acts on the noise prediction rather than replacing the diffusion model, it preserves the base model's generalization and avoids fine-tuning a diffusion model on 3D datasets.
  • The three-task feedback decomposition gives a practical recipe for using MLLMs as optimizers, not just evaluators, in generative 3D pipelines.
  • Using TCSD with a holistic NeRF representation yields more faithful object interactions than compositional methods that optimize objects separately.
  • CoherenDream's training time stays comparable to the baseline (about 60 minutes), so the semantic feedback adds little computational overhead.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The TCSD correction is effectively a differentiable semantic reward, so the same one-step-denoising trick could transfer to image-to-3D or test-time prompt-adherence settings where a critic can be queried on intermediate outputs.
  • Because $\hat{x}_0$ gets blurrier at high noise levels, the reliability of $\delta$ should degrade there; annealing $\lambda$ by noise level or scheduling which guidance tasks fire at which timesteps is a natural testable improvement.
  • Comparing the direction of the TCSD correction with a trusted reference alignment signal (such as human preference ratings) would diagnose how much the critic's loss can be trusted; the paper's own failure cases show attribute leakage when prompt supervision is weak.
  • The view-aware data collection pipeline consumes only rendered grids, so the same critic recipe could be reused for Gaussian-splatting or mesh-based 3D generators.
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Referee Report

5 major / 8 minor

Summary. The paper proposes CoherenDream, a text-to-3D generation framework that augments Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) with feedback from a multimodal large language model (MLLM). The central contribution is Textual Coherent Score Distillation (TCSD), which modifies the SDS noise prediction as \hat{\epsilon}_\Phi = \epsilon_\Phi + \lambda\cdot\delta(T,\hat{x}_0), where \delta is the gradient of an MLLM cross-entropy loss evaluated on one-step denoised renderings against scene-graph, object, and view targets. The authors fine-tune a 3DLLaVA-CRITIC model on a view-aware dataset generated with GPT-4o, and they introduce an LLM-layout initialization that warms up the NeRF density field. Experiments on a 45-prompt TIFA subset report improved TIFA, VQAScore, and CLIP scores over MVDream, DreamView, and JointDreamer, with additional ablations, comparisons to compositional methods and native 3D models, and integration experiments with JSD and VSD.

Significance. If the central mechanism is validated, integrating MLLM feedback directly into SDS is a promising and timely direction that could mitigate the view-independent bias accumulation in multi-object text-to-3D generation. The paper appears to be the first to embed an MLLM in the SDS optimization loop, and the view-aware data collection pipeline, the decomposition of alignment feedback into scene-graph, object, and view tasks, and the extensive qualitative comparisons are useful contributions. The compatibility of TCSD with JSD and VSD demonstrates that the approach is modular and could be adopted by other SDS variants. However, the current evidence does not establish that the added gradient is a faithful alignment-score correction: the derivation is heuristic, the critic validation is circular, and the headline quantitative evaluation is based on a small prompt subset with nonstandard aggregation and no error bars. The paper's own failure cases further show that the MLLM feedback can inject attribute biases, so the central claim requires additional calibration and controlled experiments.

major comments (5)
  1. [Textual Coherent Score Distillation (TCSD), Eqs. (4)-(7)] The substitution of \nabla_{\mathbf{x}_t}\log p(y|\mathbf{x}_t) by \lambda\cdot\nabla_{\mathbf{x}_t} L_{\mathrm{ce}}(T, f_{\mathrm{cr}}(\hat{\mathbf{x}}_0)) is asserted rather than derived or calibrated. The cross-entropy of an autoregressive MLLM is a token-prediction loss on 2x2 grid images, not a calibrated estimate of the probability that \mathbf{x}_t is aligned with the user prompt. Moreover, \hat{\mathbf{x}}_0 is obtained by one-step denoising, whereas the critic's training images were generated with 5/20/50 denoising steps (Appendix, "View-aware Image Generation Details"), so at the large timesteps used early in SDS the critic operates far outside its training distribution. I request either a derivation of this replacement with error bounds, or a calibration experiment showing that L_{\mathrm{ce}} correlates with human-judged text alignment on SDS-like noisy renderings, and a control experiment comparing optimization trajectories with and without the MLLM term.
  2. [Quantitative Comparison, Table 1] The headline improvement is based on a curated 45-prompt subset of TIFA v1.0 with no error bars, confidence intervals, or significance tests. The aggregation rules are nonstandard and differ across metrics: TIFA is the intersection of correct answers across 10 uniformly sampled azimuths, VQAScore is the maximum across viewpoints, and CLIP is the average across views. These choices can systematically favor different failure modes; for example, max-aggregated VQAScore rewards methods that occasionally produce a single good view, while intersection-based TIFA penalizes view inconsistency. The paper should justify these aggregation choices, report per-prompt scores and variance, and ideally evaluate on the full TIFA set or another standardized benchmark to establish that the observed 4.0-point TIFA improvement is not an artifact of prompt selection or aggregation.
  3. [Quantitative evaluation for 3DLLaVA-CRITIC, Table 2 and Appendix "Quality of 3DLLaVA-CRITIC"] The validation of the critic is circular: GPT-4o generated the fine-tuning labels in the view-aware data collection pipeline, and GPT-4o also scores the critic's responses as correct or incorrect in the reported validation. The accuracies (T_sg 0.76, T_ob 0.89, T_view 0.87) therefore measure agreement with the same labeler that created the training data, not true accuracy on an independent ground truth. Since the critic's feedback directly steers the SDS gradient, an independent human evaluation on a sampled subset, or a held-out set annotated by a different source, is necessary to trust the TCSD results and to determine whether the critic's errors introduce biases into the generated 3D assets.
  4. [Guidance Task Combo, Eq. (7)] The task weights \lambda_{\mathrm{sg}}=1, \lambda_{\mathrm{ob}}=0.5, and \lambda_{\mathrm{view}}=0.1 are fixed without a sensitivity analysis or any comparison of gradient magnitudes between the SDS noise term \epsilon_\Phi and the MLLM feedback term \lambda\cdot\delta. The paper also notes that view classification slows training and is therefore computed only every 20 iterations, which changes the effective weight of that task across time. Without ablations that vary these weights, or at least report the norm of the feedback gradient relative to the SDS gradient during optimization, it is unclear whether the MLLM term dominates, is negligible, or is balanced at different phases of training; the reported improvements could be highly sensitive to these ad-hoc values.
  5. [Limitation and Fig. 19] The acknowledged failure cases, attribute leakage (the "green" from the stool influencing the monkey) and missed attributes (the pig's "reclined position" not rendered), show that the MLLM feedback can inject biases rather than consistently correct view-independent drift. This directly qualifies the central claim that TCSD "steers the optimization toward a textual-consistent distribution." The paper should analyze why these biases arise, for example whether the scene-graph format over-weights object presence and under-weights attributes and relations, and should propose a mitigation or at least quantify the frequency of such failures across a larger prompt set.
minor comments (8)
  1. [Baselines Setup] In the Appendix, "1DreamView" should be "DreamView", and in the qualitative comparison section "our Conherent" should be "our CoherenDream".
  2. [Framework of CoherenDream] In "Guidance Tasks", "equipe" should be "equip", and in "LLM-layout Initialization", "traption" should be "trapping"; in Fig. 6, "TCDC" should be "TCSD".
  3. [Preliminaries, Eq. (2)] The notation E_{t,\epsilon_\Phi} is ambiguous because the sampling distributions of t and \epsilon are not defined; please specify the noise schedule, the range of t, and the distribution of \epsilon.
  4. [Eq. (5) and Guidance Task Combo] The symbol \lambda is used both for \sqrt{1-\alpha_t} in Eq. (5) and for the task weights \lambda_{\mathrm{sg}}, \lambda_{\mathrm{ob}}, \lambda_{\mathrm{view}}; please use a distinct symbol for the task weights to avoid confusion.
  5. [References and notation] The model name appears variously as "3DLLaV A-CRITIC", "3DLLaVA-CRITIC", and "3DLlava-CRITIC"; please standardize, and the reference list entry for LLaVA-OneVision is incomplete.
  6. [Fig. 16, layout prompt] The example JSON in the layout generation prompt contains syntax errors, including double braces and a trailing comma, which would not parse; please fix the example.
  7. [Quantitative Comparison] The paper refers to a "curated 45-prompt subset" of TIFA v1.0 but does not specify the curation procedure or list the prompts; adding a supplementary prompt list would aid reproducibility.
  8. [Table 4 in Appendix] The heading "Quantity ablation study" should be "Quantitative ablation study", and the object classification prompt in Table 3 lacks an output format example, making it hard to reproduce the model's structured output.

Circularity Check

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Main TIFA/CLIP evaluation is external and not circular; only the Table 2 validation of 3DLLaVA-CRITIC is self-referential, with GPT-4o serving as both labeler and judge.

  1. fitted input called prediction [Section 3DLLaVA-CRITIC / quantitative evaluation of 3DLLaVA-CRITIC (Table 2)]
    "In the absence of a ground-truth dataset, we construct 30 prompts for T_sg and T_ob, and randomly choose 10 objects across 10 camera poses for T_view. For each validation sample, GPT-4o is given both models’ responses alongside the reference answer and tasked with scoring each as correct (1) or incorrect (0)."

    The reference answers in this validation come from the same GPT-4o annotation step that produced the critic's instruction-tuning data ('we curate 307,409 grid images and then prompt GPT-4o ... to generate scene graphs, view prompts, and perform object extraction'). GPT-4o is then asked to judge whether the fine-tuned critic matches those references. The resulting Table 2 'accuracy' is therefore agreement with the teacher that generated the labels, not an independent measure of critic quality. This is a narrow evaluation of the auxiliary critic, however, and does not by itself establish the paper's central text-to-3D claim, which is supported by external TIFA/CLIP/VQAScore numbers.

full rationale

The central derivation is not circular: TCSD takes the standard SDS gradient and adds an MLLM-feedback correction term. Equation (5)'s replacement of ∇_x_t log p(y|x_t) by λ·∇_x_t Lce(T, f_cr(x̂_0)) is an unverified approximation rather than a definitional equivalence; it may be a correctness or calibration risk, but it does not reduce the prediction to the input. The headline results in Table 1 (TIFA, VQAScore, CLIP) are evaluated with external benchmarks and are not constructed from the method's fitted values. The LLM-layout initialization is an initialization heuristic, not a fitted parameter disguised as a prediction. The only identifiable circular element is the Table 2 validation of 3DLLaVA-CRITIC, where GPT-4o both generated the training references and scores the validation answers; that makes the reported critic accuracy an agreement-with-teacher measure. Since this affects an auxiliary component and not the main external evaluation, the overall circularity score is low.

Assumptions & free parameters 4 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The TCSD 'derivation' rests on a learned critic (a large fitted function), hand-chosen combination weights, and a heuristic substitution of MLLM cross-entropy for the score of p(y|x_t). The LLM-layout warm-up adds another GPT-4-dependent prior. These are the main charges the reader pays beyond the SDS baseline.

free parameters (4)
  • 3DLLaVA-CRITIC fine-tuned weights (LoRA and multimodal MLP adapter) = Trained on 307,409 GPT-4o-annotated grid images, LLaVA-OneVision 0.5B base
    The feedback gradient that defines TCSD is produced by this learned critic; its quality and biases are not controlled by the paper's derivation.
  • lambda_sg, lambda_ob, lambda_view task weights = 1.0, 0.5, 0.1
    Chosen by hand in the Guidance Task Combo section; they control the balance of scene graph, object, and view feedback in delta_CoherenDream.
  • sigma (surface weight decay hyperparameter in LLM-layout loss) = Not reported
    Controls how quickly the layout constraint decays away from the surface; tuned by hand, value omitted.
  • Warm-up schedule N and layout loss weight decay = 600 steps, decay from 1 to 1e-3
    Hand-set schedule that determines how much the LLM layout constrains the final shape.
assumptions (5)
  • standard math Score identity gradient of log p_t(x_t|y) equals -1/sqrt(1-alpha_t) times the noise prediction (standard diffusion score matching).
    Invoked in Eq. (3) of Preliminaries to construct the textual-consistent noise prediction.
  • standard math SDS gradient ignores the UNet Jacobian, approximating the KL gradient by the noise-prediction residual.
    Adopted from Poole et al. 2023, Eq. (2), and reused for TCSD in Eq. (7).
  • ad hoc to paper MLLM cross-entropy L_ce(T, f_cr(hat_x0)) is a faithful differentiable proxy for -log p(y|x_t).
    Eq. (5)-(6) replace the score of the ideal text-consistent distribution with the gradient of the critic's language loss on one-step denoised images; the paper gives no calibration or error analysis for this substitution.
  • domain assumption One-step denoising approximates the clean image for feedback computation.
    Eq. (6) computes feedback on hat_x0 = (x_t - sqrt(1-alpha_t) epsilon_Phi)/sqrt(alpha) instead of the noisy x_t, assuming the one-step estimate is informative enough for semantic critique.
  • domain assumption GPT-4-generated LLM layouts provide plausible spatial priors for initialization.
    LLM-layout Initialization fits the NeRF density to occupancy defined by GPT-generated bounding boxes; this assumes those boxes are semantically correct and that the warm-up improves rather than biases the scene.

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Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) has achieved remarkable success in text-to-3D content generation. However, SDS-based methods struggle to maintain semantic fidelity for user prompts, particularly when involving multiple objects with intricate interactions. While existing approaches often address 3D consistency through multiview diffusion model fine-tuning on 3D datasets, this strategy inadvertently exacerbates text-3D alignment degradation. The limitation stems from SDS's inherent accumulation of view-independent biases during optimization, which progressively diverges from the ideal text alignment direction. To alleviate this limitation, we propose a novel SDS objective, dubbed as Textual Coherent Score Distillation (TCSD), which integrates alignment feedback from multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Our TCSD leverages cross-modal understanding capabilities of MLLMs to assess and guide the text-3D correspondence during the optimization. We further develop 3DLLaVA-CRITIC - a fine-tuned MLLM specialized for evaluating multiview text alignment in 3D generations. Additionally, we introduce an LLM-layout initialization that significantly accelerates optimization convergence through semantic-aware spatial configuration. Our framework, CoherenDream, achieves consistent improvement across multiple metrics on TIFA subset.As the first study to incorporate MLLMs into SDS optimization, we also conduct extensive ablation studies to explore optimal MLLM adaptations for 3D generation tasks.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. Textual Coherent 3D Generation with CoherenDream. By integrating multimodal LLM feedback into SDS opti￾mization, our Textual Coherent Score Distillation corrects view-bias drift and yields faithful, text-aligned 3D content. properly contextualized within SDS optimization, as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Overview of CoherenDream framework. CoherenDream involves LLM-Layout initialization, textual coherent score distillation and 3DLLaVA-CRITIC with three kinds of guidance tasks, producing text-3D aligned results from MLLM feedback. Thus, the textual consistent gradient of Textual Coherent Score Distillation can be reformulated by Eq. (2) and ideal noise prediction in Eq. (5) as follows: ∇θLT CSD(θ) ≜ Et,ϵΦ [w(t)(ˆϵΦ(x… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. View-aware data collection pipeline for 3DLLaVA-CRITIC that consist of (1) using LLM to gener￾ate diverse coarse text prompt and corresponding layout and rendering from random viewpoints in Blender; (2) random sampling images from T2I diffusion model conditioned on layout image and randomly assembling into a 2×2 grid im￾age; (3) employing GPT-4o to extract semantic annotation, including scene graph and view directio… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Qualitative comparison with representative methods. The results indicate that existing text-to-3D generation meth￾ods do not produce textual consistent results, involving objects omissions or unnatural interactions (highlighted in red). Con￾versely, our CoherenDream ge…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparing TCSD with Original SDS. Original SDS exhibits bias accumulation issues resulting in object omissions, while TCSD leverages a dynamic MLLM asses￾sor to produce coherent results in a holistic 3D space. responding to textual description benefiting from effective…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Incremental ablations on techniques in CoherenDream framework, which enhances text alignment. Text-to-Image from MVDream CraftsMan3D Direct3D Text+MV Image-to-3D Hunyuan3D-2 CoherenDream Image-to-3D Image-to-Texture from Hunyuan3D CraftsMan3D (5min) Direct3D (1min) [P…
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Compare with native 3D model in text-to-image-to-3D pipeline. Ablation on LLM-Layout Initialization and 3DLLaVA￾CRITIC. We conduct incremental ablations on tech￾niques in CoherenDream, focusing on LLM-Layout Initial￾ization and the fine-tuned 3DLLaVA-CRITIC. As shown i…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Training loss of 3DLLaVA-CRITIC. View-aware Image Generation Details. We construct a view-aware image dataset to bridge the gap between nat￾ural images and the conditional image distributions sam￾pled from diffusion models during SDS optimization. This dataset is desig…
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Qualitative results of our 3DLLaVA-CRITIC compared to original LLaVA. SC: generated scene graph; OBJ: predicted multi-label classification; View: view classification; Cap: generated caption. the global prompt. For example, the global prompt “A chef is chopping vegetabl…
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison on aggregated loss curve of LMLLM during score distillation between our 3DLLaVA￾CRITIC and original LLaVA. (MLLM) demonstrates a capacity to generate more accurate scene graphs that align better with instruction requirements. We also present the loss curve …
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Ablation Study on Guidance Tasks with TCSD. Scene Graph Generation task provides valuable global semantic guidance, resulting in coherent geometric structures, although it may overlook some text-specific details. The Multi-label Clas￾sification task ensures correspond…
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Integrating TCSD with other SDS Variants.(a) Enhancing prompt alignment: Integrating TCSD with JSD im￾proves textual alignment in JointDreamer, preventing object omission (e.g., child and butterfly) while maintaining original texture style. (b) Improving texture fidel…
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Figure 13. Figure 13: More comparison with GraphDreamer, which encounter unnatural decomposition leading to objects being fully obscured by others. In contrast, TCSD leverages a dynamic MLLM assessor to produce coherent results in a holistic 3D space. CoherenDream GraphDreamer GALA3D A bla…
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Comparison with Compositional Methods. Computation Overhead Comparison We evaluate the computational efficiency of our method by comparing the average training time and peak memory us￾age with baseline models under the same settings as reported in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:fi…
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Visualization of samples in view-aware dataset [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_15.png]
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Prompt for layout generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_16.png]
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Figure 17. Figure 17: More results of CoherenDream [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_17.png]
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Figure 18. Figure 18: More comparison of text-to-3D generation [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_18.png]
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Figure 19. Figure 19: Failure cases of CoherenDream [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_19.png]

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