A curated list of papers on Image-Generation-RL.

📚 Table of Contents

1. Survey & Overview
2. AR Based RL
3. Diffusion Based RL
4. Video RL
5. Image Edit RL
6. Reward Model
7. Image Generation COT

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1. Survey & Overview

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2. AR Based RL

• BLIP3o-NEXT
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• AR-GRPO: Training Autoregressive Image Generation Models via Reinforcement Learning
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• X-Omni: Reinforcement Learning Makes Discrete Autoregressive Image Generative Models Great Again
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• T2I-R1:Reinforcing Image Generation with Collaborative Semantic-level and Token-level CoT
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• Delving into RL for Image Generation with CoT: A Study on DPO vs. GRPO
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• Can We Generate Images with CoT? Let’s Verify and Reinforce Image Generation Step by Step
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3. Diffusion Based RL

• Diffusion Model as a Noise-Aware Latent Reward Model for Step-Level Preference Optimization
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• Flow-GRPO: Training Flow Matching Models via Online RL
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• DanceGRPO: Unleashing GRPO on Visual Generation
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• MIXGRPO: UNLOCKING FLOW-BASED GRPO EFFICIENCY WITH MIXED ODE-SDE
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• TempFlow-GRPO: When Timing Matters for GRPO in Flow Models
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• Pref-GRPO: Pairwise Preference Reward-based GRPO for Stable Text-to-Image Reinforcement Learning
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• Visual-CoG: Stage-Aware Reinforcement Learning with Chain of Guidance for Text-to-Image Generation
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• Directly Aligning the Full Diffusion Trajectory with Fine-Grained Human Preference
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• DiffusionNFT: Online Diffusion Reinforcement with Forward Process
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

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4. Video RL

• InfLVG: Reinforce Inference-Time Consistent Long Video Generation with GRPO
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• Improving Video Generation with Human Feedback
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• Video Generation Models Are Good Latent Reward Models
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5. Image Edit RL

• Skywork UniPic 2.0: Building Kontext Model with Online RL for Unified Multimodal Model
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• OneReward: Unified Mask-Guided Image Generation via Multi-Task Human Preference Learning
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• MM-R1: Unleashing the Power of Unified Multimodal Large Language Models for Personalized Image Generation
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• UniWorld-V2: Reinforce Image Editing with Diffusion Negative-Aware Finetuning and MLLM Implicit Feedback
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• EditScore: Unlocking Online RL for Image Editing via High-Fidelity Reward Modeling
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

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6. Reward Model

• RewardDance: Reward Scaling in Visual Generation
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7. Image Generation COT

• Interleaving Reasoning for Better Text-to-Image Generation
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

• FLUX-Reason-6M & PRISM-Bench: A Million-Scale Text-to-Image Reasoning Dataset and Comprehensive Benchmark
  Year: 2025 📄 Paper | 💻 Code | 🌐 Project

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