IPAdapter-Instruct: Resolving Ambiguity in Image-based Conditioning
  using Instruct Prompts
Authors: name: Ciara Rowles; name: Shimon Vainer; name: Dante De Nigris; name: Slava Elizarov; name: Konstantin Kutsy; name: Simon Donné
Published: 2024-08-06 14:08:22

Abstract: Diffusion models continuously push the boundary of state-of-the-art image
generation, but the process is hard to control with any nuance: practice proves
that textual prompts are inadequate for accurately describing image style or
fine structural details (such as faces). ControlNet and IPAdapter address this
shortcoming by conditioning the generative process on imagery instead, but each
individual instance is limited to modeling a single conditional posterior: for
practical use-cases, where multiple different posteriors are desired within the
same workflow, training and using multiple adapters is cumbersome. We propose
IPAdapter-Instruct, which combines natural-image conditioning with ``Instruct''
prompts to swap between interpretations for the same conditioning image: style
transfer, object extraction, both, or something else still? IPAdapterInstruct
efficiently learns multiple tasks with minimal loss in quality compared to
dedicated per-task models.