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ARXIV:2603.26128 · GENERATIVE IMAGE MODELS · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:54 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26128GENERATIVE IMAGE MODELSSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:54 UTCFRESHNESS STALEMridul Khurana · Amin Karimi Monsefi · Justin Lee · Medha Sawhney · David Carlyn · Julia Chae · +6 at arXiv
A lightweight adapter for text-to-image models that uses vision taxonomy embeddings to achieve highly accurate species-level image generation, even for rare or unseen species.
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Pain A lightweight adapter for text-to-image models that uses vision taxonomy embeddings to achieve highly accurate species-level image generation, even for rare or unseen species.
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A lightweight adapter for text-to-image models that uses vision taxonomy embeddings to achieve highly accurate species-level image generation, even for rare or unseen species. Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image synthesis, existing models often…
Accurately generating images across the Tree of Life is difficult: there are over 10M distinct species on Earth, many of which differ only by subtle visual traits. Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image synthesis,…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TaxaAdapter consistently improves morphology fidelity and species-identity accuracy over strong baselines, with a cleaner architecture and training recipe. Code availability…
Generative Image Models moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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A lightweight adapter for text-to-image models that uses vision taxonomy embeddings to achieve highly accurate species-level image generation, even for rare or unseen species.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26128A lightweight adapter for text-to-image models that uses vision taxonomy embeddings to achieve highly accurate species-level image generation, even for rare or unseen species.
Abstract
Accurately generating images across the Tree of Life is difficult: there are over 10M distinct species on Earth, many of which differ only by subtle visual traits. Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image synthesis, existing models often fail to capture the fine-grained visual cues that define species identity, even when their outputs appear photo-realistic. To this end, we propose TaxaAdapter, a simple and lightweight approach that incorporates Vision Taxonomy Models (VTMs) such as BioCLIP to guide fine-grained species generation. Our method injects VTM embeddings into a frozen text-to-image diffusion model, improving species-level fidelity while preserving flexible text control over attributes such as pose, style, and background. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TaxaAdapter consistently improves morphology fidelity and species-identity accuracy over strong baselines, with a cleaner architecture and training recipe. To better evaluate these improvements, we also introduce a multimodal Large Language Model-based metric that summarizes trait-level descriptions from generated and real images, providing a more interpretable measure of morphological consistency. Beyond this, we observe that TaxaAdapter exhibits strong generalization capabilities, enabling species synthesis in challenging regimes such as few-shot species with only a handful of training images and even species unseen during training. Overall, our results highlight that VTMs are a key ingredient for scalable, fine-grained species generation.
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A lightweight adapter for text-to-image models that uses vision taxonomy embeddings to achieve highly accurate species-level image generation, even for rare or unseen species. Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image synthesis, existing models often fail to capture the f...
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Accurately generating images across the Tree of Life is difficult: there are over 10M distinct species on Earth, many of which differ only by subtle visual traits. Despite the remarkable progress in text-to-image synthesis, existing models often fail to capture the fine-grained...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TaxaAdapter consistently improves morphology fidelity and species-identity accuracy over strong baselines, with a cleaner architecture and training recipe. Code avai...
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Generative Image Models moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
Our method injects VTM embeddings into a frozen text-to-image diffusion model, improving species-level fidelity while preserving flexible text control over attributes such as pose, style, and background.
The abstract explicitly states this as the core contribution and the results tables show significant improvements in metrics like BioCLIP score for TaxaAdapter compared to baselines.
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T axaAdapter (w/BioCLIP) 29.87 0.7345 61.98% 82.96%26.6921.76 0.33 0.81 0.28 0.92
This is a specific numerical result directly presented in Table 3, comparing TaxaAdapter with a key baseline.
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Beyond this, we observe that TaxaAdapter exhibits strong generalization capabilities, enabling species synthesis in challenging regimes such as few-shot species with only a handful of images and even species unseen during training.
The abstract mentions this capability, and Table 4 provides specific FID and LPIPS scores for TaxaAdapter in 'Single training image' and 'Less than 5 training images' scenarios, showing competitive or superior performance.
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T axaAdapter (w/BioCLIP)32.120.74259.81% 83.78%30.44 25.07 0.41
This is a specific numerical result directly presented in Table 3, indicating the performance of TaxaAdapter with a specific VTM.
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The dual conditioning streams are fused through a decoupled cross-attention mechanism, where the tax
The abstract and Figure 2 clearly describe this architectural detail as a core part of the proposed method.
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Fig. 5:Qualitative results on OOD species generation. TaxaAdapter demon-strates strong zero-shot morphological consistency on unseen classes.
Figure 5 provides qualitative examples of TaxaAdapter generating images for OOD species, and the accompanying text explicitly states its strong zero-shot consistency.
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T axaAdapter (w/BioCLIP) 29.87 0.7345 61.98% 82.96%26.6921.76 0.33 0.81 0.28 0.92
These are specific numerical results directly presented in Table 3, showing the effectiveness of TaxaAdapter in species classification accuracy.
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Our method injects VTM embeddings into a frozen text-to-image diffusion model, improving species-level fidelity while preserving flexible text control over attributes such as pose, style, and background.
The abstract explicitly states this as the core contribution, and the results tables show significant improvements in metrics like BioCLIP score for TaxaAdapter compared to baselines.
partial
T axaAdapter (w/BioCLIP) 29.87 0.7345 61.98% 82.96%26.6921.76 0.33 0.81 0.28 0.92
This is a specific numerical result directly presented in Table 3, comparing TaxaAdapter to a strong baseline.
partial
Beyond this, we observe that TaxaAdapter exhibits strong generalization capabilities, enabling species synthesis in challenging regimes such as few-shot species with only a handful of training images and even species unseen during training.
The abstract highlights this generalization capability, and Table 4 provides specific FID and LPIPS scores for TaxaAdapter in 'Single training image' and 'Less than 5 training images' scenarios, showing competitive performance.
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The dual conditioning streams are fused through a decoupled cross-attention mechanism, where the tax
Figure 2 visually depicts this mechanism, and the text describes it as a key component of the pipeline.
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T axaAdapter (w/BioCLIP) 29.87 0.7345 61.98% 82.96%26.6921.76 0.33 0.81 0.28 0.92
This is a specific numerical result directly presented in Table 3, comparing TaxaAdapter to a strong baseline.
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