Papers › GlyphControl: Glyph Conditional Control for Visual Text Generation

GlyphControl: Glyph Conditional Control for Visual Text Generation

29 May 2023NeurIPS 2023 11arXiv:2305.18259archive 2025-07-28

Yukang Yang, Dongnan Gui, Yuhui Yuan, Weicong Liang, Haisong Ding, Han Hu, Kai Chen

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in developing diffusion-based text-to-image generative models capable of generating coherent and well-formed visual text. In this paper, we propose a novel and efficient approach called GlyphControl to address this task. Unlike existing methods that rely on character-aware text encoders like ByT5 and require retraining of text-to-image models, our approach leverages additional glyph conditional information to enhance the performance of the off-the-shelf Stable-Diffusion model in generating accurate visual text. By incorporating glyph instructions, users can customize the content, location, and size of the generated text according to their specific requirements. To facilitate further research in visual text generation, we construct a training benchmark dataset called LAION-Glyph. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach by measuring OCR-based metrics, CLIP score, and FID of the generated visual text. Our empirical evaluations demonstrate that GlyphControl outperforms the recent DeepFloyd IF approach in terms of OCR accuracy, CLIP score, and FID, highlighting the efficacy of our method.

PaperPDFConference PDFCodeCode Syntology ran

In Syntology View this paper on Syntology: its repositories, every harvested function with whether it ran, its licence and the call to fetch it.

Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.

For agents, Syntology's MCP tool lists every function and class Syntology harvested from this paper and whether it ran (how to connect): get_harvested_code_for_paper(arxiv_id="2305.18259")

Code

Syntology Ran 4 of 9 code samples harvested from 1 repository linked to this paper; 5 have no recorded run. Of those that ran: 4 ran with no contract checked.

By repository: official repository: 9 samples from 1 repository, 4 ran. The run record, sample by sample. “Ran” means executed on a synthesized input, not that the code is correct or reproduces the paper.

aigtext/glyphcontrol-release officialmentioned in papermentioned on GitHubpytorch report

Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

9 samples harvested; 4 ran; 0 honoured the contract we drafted; 5 have no recorded run. Read from Syntology's graph 2026-09-25; that is when this build read the record, not when the samples ran.

4ran
5unverified

Licence: 0 of the 9 samples are pointer only, meaning Syntology does not serve that copy's text. This page shows no code text for any sample; each one links to its file in the repository.

Harvested from aigtext/glyphcontrol-release. “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized input. It does not mean the output is correct, and nothing here reproduces the paper's results. “Honoured” and “violated” refer to a contract Syntology drafted from the code itself; “our draft was wrong” and “fixture could not drive it” are failures of Syntology's instrument, not of the code.

Each sample ends with its code_sha256, Syntology's identity for that exact code. An agent fetches the stored sample with Syntology's MCP tool get_code(code_sha256="…") (how to connect); click an identity to copy that call.

Repository labels, per sample. official repository: The archive marks this repository official for the paper. named in the paper: The archive records that the paper mentions this repository; it is not marked official. community (archive-listed): In the archive's code links for this paper, not marked official and not recorded as mentioned in the paper. found in paper text by Syntology: Syntology found this repository in the paper's own text; whether it is the authors' implementation is not asserted. community: Not in the archive's code links for this paper; a community repository Syntology harvested. Samples from a repository marked official are listed first. Licence labels name the repository's licence as recorded at harvest. “Pointer only” means Syntology does not serve that copy's text, for one of four reasons: no licence file was found; the licence was not identified; the licence is recorded as permissive but that copy's record is not marked cleared; or the licence is outside the permissive list Syntology serves text under (MIT, Apache-2.0, BSD and similar). Some licences outside that list permit redistribution, such as WTFPL, and GPL-3.0 under its conditions; they are simply not on the list. Hover a licence label for the reason. File links open the file on GitHub at the default branch, which may have changed since the harvest.

CrossAttention aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository ran MIT (permissive) · 8f64e619c23619c5 · report
MemoryEfficientCrossAttention aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository ran MIT (permissive) · 2c8910dba7592809 · report
QKVAttention aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository ran MIT (permissive) · 4bed2e5daf64df72 · report
QKVAttentionLegacy aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository ran MIT (permissive) · ba0567fc5b71dbf6 · report
AttentionBlock aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · e59c125335cdce0a · report
BasicTransformerBlock aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · c8644b25d74977f2 · report
ControlNet aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 1e1a7f7b69eb27b1 · report
SpatialTransformer aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 97e5c1d4532076bf · report
TimestepEmbedSequential aigtext/glyphcontrol-release/cldm/cldm.py official repository unverified MIT (permissive) · 48f3e455f9262eb2 · report

Tasks

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)Text Generation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.

Methods

CLIP

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections