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Record W4415123913 · doi:10.1109/tmc.2025.3620352

Distributed and Controllable Mobile Text-to-Image Generation With User Preference Guarantee

2025· article· en· W4415123913 on OpenAlex
Yuxin Kong, Peng Yang, Xue Qin, Jizhe Zhou, Xuemin Shen

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicVideo Analysis and Summarization
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Waterloo
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMobile edge computingAdaptabilityReinforcement learningTransmission (telecommunications)Mobile deviceEnhanced Data Rates for GSM EvolutionImage qualityResource allocation

Abstract

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In this paper, we investigate controllable mobile text-to-image generation at scale, considering diverse user preferences. In particular, we observe that, by incorporating visual conditions (<italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">e.g.,</i> Canny maps and depth maps) as supplementary inputs alongside text prompts, fine-grained and controllable image generation could be achieved. To this end, we propose a system design for distributed and controllable mobile text-to-image generation by leveraging edge computing. This system can satisfy diverse user-specified quality preferences at reduced transmission cost through effective cooperation of mobile and edge computing. In particular, the proposed system consists of a <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Visual Condition Engineering</i> module and a <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Distributed Denoising Control</i> module. Since extensive profiling reveals that different visual conditions affect both generation quality and sensitivity to image encoding parameters, the first module selects the optimal configuration of user-specific visual condition on mobile devices. Key to this module is a Pareto Frontier-based model which subtly balances user-preferred generation quality and transmission efficiency. The second module enables collaborative generation by adaptively distributing denoising tasks between mobile devices and the edge server, according to their available computing resources. At the core of this module is an efficient deep reinforcement learning algorithm designed to optimize the dynamic distribution of denoising tasks. By integrating the deep diffusion model, this algorithm achieves superior action space exploration capabilities while maintaining fast convergence and reliable execution, thereby facilitating enhanced adaptability under variable computing resource scenarios. Extensive experimental results reveal that, the designed system can achieve a reduction in transmission cost by over 90% and enhance user satisfaction by up to 18%, with consistent performance across various diffusion models under diverse resource constraints.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.867
Threshold uncertainty score0.678

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.226 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it