hpsv3 1.0.0
HPSv3: Towards Wide-Spectrum Human Preference Score - A VLM-based preference model for image quality assessment
License: MIT
Requires Python: >=3.8
Keywords: machine learning, computer vision, human preference, image quality, VLM, multimodal

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# 🎯 HPSv3: Towards Wide-Spectrum Human Preference Score (ICCV 2025)

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<sup>1</sup>Mizzen AI&ensp;&ensp; <sup>2</sup>King’s College London&ensp;&ensp; <sup>3</sup>Shanghai Jiaotong University&ensp;&ensp; <sup>4</sup>CUHK MMLab&ensp;&ensp; <sup>5</sup>Shanghai AI Laboratory&ensp;&ensp; <sup>6</sup>CPII, InnoHK&ensp;&ensp; 

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**Yuhang Ma**<sup>1,3*</sup>&ensp; **Yunhao Shui**<sup>1,4*</sup>&ensp; **Xiaoshi Wu**<sup>2</sup>&ensp; **Keqiang Sun**<sup>1,2†</sup>&ensp; **Hongsheng Li**<sup>2,4,5†</sup>

<sup>1</sup>Mizzen AI&ensp;&ensp; <sup>2</sup>CUHK MMLab&ensp;&ensp; <sup>3</sup>King’s College London&ensp;&ensp; <sup>4</sup>Shanghai Jiaotong University&ensp;&ensp; 

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<sup>*</sup>Equal Contribution&ensp; <sup>†</sup>Equal Advising

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## 📖 Introduction

This is the official implementation for the paper: [HPSv3: Towards Wide-Spectrum Human Preference Score]().
First, we introduce a VLM-based preference model **HPSv3**, trained on a "wide spectrum" preference dataset **HPDv3** with 1.08M text-image pairs and 1.17M annotated pairwise comparisons, covering both state-of-the-art and earlier generative models, as well as high- and low-quality real-world images. Second, we propose a novel reasoning approach for iterative image refinement, **CoHP(Chain-of-Human-Preference)**, which efficiently improves image quality without requiring additional training data.

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  <img src="assets/teaser.png" alt="Teaser" width="900"/>
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## ✨ Updates

- **[2025-8-05]** 🎉 We release HPSv3: inference code, training code, cohp code and model weights.

## 📑 Table of Contents
1. [🚀 Quick Start](#🚀-quick-start)
2. [🌐 Gradio Demo](#🌐-gradio-demo)
3. [🏋️ Training](#🏋️-training)
4. [📊 Benchmark](#📊-benchmark)
5. [🎯 CoHP (Chain-of-Human-Preference)](#🎯-cohp-chain-of-human-preference)

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## 🚀 Quick Start

HPSv3 is a state-of-the-art human preference score model for evaluating image quality and prompt alignment. It builds upon the Qwen2-VL architecture to provide accurate assessments of generated images.

### 💻 Installation

<!-- # Method 1: Pypi download and install for inference.
pip install hpsv3 -->

```bash

# Install locally for development or training.
git clone https://github.com/MizzenAI/HPSv3.git
cd HPSv3

conda env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate hpsv3
# Recommend: Install flash-attn
pip install flash-attn==2.7.4.post1

pip install -e .
```

### 🛠️ Basic Usage

#### Simple Inference Example

```python
from hpsv3 import HPSv3RewardInferencer

# Initialize the model
inferencer = HPSv3RewardInferencer(device='cuda')

# Evaluate images
image_paths = ["assets/example1.png", "assets/example2.png"]
prompts = [
  "cute chibi anime cartoon fox, smiling wagging tail with a small cartoon heart above sticker",
  "cute chibi anime cartoon fox, smiling wagging tail with a small cartoon heart above sticker"
]

# Get preference scores
rewards = inferencer.reward(image_paths, prompts)
scores = [reward[0].item() for reward in rewards]  # Extract mu values
print(f"Image scores: {scores}")
```

---

## 🌐 Gradio Demo

Launch an interactive web interface to test HPSv3:

```bash
python gradio_demo/demo.py
```

The demo will be available at `http://localhost:7860` and provides:

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  <img src="assets/gradio.png" alt="Gradio Demo" width="500"/>
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## 🏋️ Training

### 📁 Dataset

#### Human Preference Dataset v3

Human Preference Dataset v3 (HPD v3) comprises 1.08M text-image pairs and 1.17M annotated pairwise data. To modeling the wide spectrum of human preference, we introduce newest state-of-the-art generative models and high quality real photographs while maintaining old models and lower quality real images.

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<summary>Detail information of HPD v3</summary>

| Image Source | Type | Num Image | Prompt Source | Split |
|--------------|------|-----------|---------------|-------|
| High Quality Image (HQI) | Real Image | 57759 | VLM Caption | Train & Test |
| MidJourney | - | 331955 | User | Train |
| CogView4 | DiT | 400 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Test |
| FLUX.1 dev | DiT | 48927 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Infinity | Autoregressive | 27061 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Kolors | DiT | 49705 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| HunyuanDiT | DiT | 46133 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Stable Diffusion 3 Medium | DiT | 49266 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Stable Diffusion XL | Diffusion | 49025 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Pixart Sigma | Diffusion | 400 | HQI+HPDv2+JourneyDB | Test |
| Stable Diffusion 2 | Diffusion | 19124 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| CogView2 | Autoregressive | 3823 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| FuseDream | Diffusion | 468 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| VQ-Diffusion | Diffusion | 18837 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Glide | Diffusion | 19989 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Stable Diffusion 1.4 | Diffusion | 18596 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Stable Diffusion 1.1 | Diffusion | 19043 | HQI+JourneyDB | Train & Test |
| Curated HPDv2 | - | 327763 | - | Train |
</details>

#### Download HPDv3
```
HPDv3 is comming soon! Stay tuned!
```
<!-- ```bash
huggingface-cli download --repo-type dataset MizzenAI/HPDv3 --local-dir /your-local-dataset-path
``` -->

#### Pairwise Training Data Format

**Important Note: For simplicity, path1's image is always the prefered one**

```json
[
  {
    "prompt": "A beautiful landscape painting",
    "path1": "path/to/better/image.jpg",
    "path2": "path/to/worse/image.jpg",
    "confidence": 0.95
  },
  ...
]
```

### 🚀 Training Command

```bash
# Use Method 2 to install locally
git clone https://github.com/MizzenAI/HPSv3.git
cd HPSv3

conda env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate hpsv3
# Recommend: Install flash-attn
pip install flash-attn==2.7.4.post1

pip install -e .

# Train with 7B model
deepspeed hpsv3/train.py --config hpsv3/config/HPSv3_7B.yaml
```

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<summary>Important Config Argument</summary>

| Configuration Section | Parameter | Value | Description |
|----------------------|-----------|-------|-------------|
| **Model Configuration** | `rm_head_type` | `"ranknet"` | Type of reward model head architecture |
| | `lora_enable` | `False` | Enable LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) for efficient fine-tuning. If `False`, language tower is fully trainable|
| | `vision_lora` | `False` | Apply LoRA specifically to vision components. If `False`, vision tower is fully trainable|
| | `model_name_or_path` | `"Qwen/Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct"` | Path to the base model checkpoint |
| **Data Configuration** | `confidence_threshold` | `0.95` | Minimum confidence score for training data |
| | `train_json_list` | `[example_train.json]` | List of training data files |
| | `test_json_list` | `[validation_sets]` | List of validation datasets with names |
| | `output_dim` | `2` | Output dimension of the reward head for $\mu$ and $\sigma$|
| | `loss_type` | `"uncertainty"` | Loss function type for training |
</details>

---

## 📊 Benchmark
To evaluate **HPSv3 preference accuracy** or **human preference score of image generation model**, follow the detail instruction is in [Evaluate Insctruction](evaluate/README.md)

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<summary> Preference Accuracy of HPSv3 </summary>

| Model | ImageReward | Pickscore | HPDv2 | HPDv3 |
|------|-------------|-----------|-------|-------|
| [CLIP ViT-H/14](https://huggingface.co/laion/CLIP-ViT-H-14-laion2B-s32B-b79K) | 57.1 | 60.8 | 65.1 | 48.6 |
| [Aesthetic Score Predictor](https://github.com/christophschuhmann/improved-aesthetic-predictor) | 57.4 | 56.8 | 76.8 | 59.9 |
| [ImageReward](https://github.com/THUDM/ImageReward) | 65.1 | 61.1 | 74.0 | 58.6 |
| [PickScore](https://github.com/yuvalkirstain/PickScore) | 61.6 | <u>70.5</u> | 79.8 | <u>65.6</u> |
| [HPS](https://github.com/tgxs002/align_sd) | 61.2 | 66.7 | 77.6 | 63.8 |
| [HPSv2](https://github.com/tgxs002/HPSv2) | 65.7 | 63.8 | 83.3 | 65.3 |
| [MPS](https://github.com/Kwai-Kolors/MPS) | **67.5** | 63.1 | <u>83.5</u> | 64.3 |
| HPSv3 | <u>66.8</u> | **72.8** | **85.4** | **76.9** |

</details>

<details open>
<summary> Image Generation Benchmark of HPSv3 </summary>

| Model | Overall | Characters | Arts | Design | Architecture | Animals | Natural Scenery | Transportation | Products | Others | Plants | Food | Science |
|------|---------|------------|------|--------|--------------|---------|-----------------|----------------|----------|--------|--------|------|---------|
| Kolors | **10.55** | **11.79** | **10.47** | **9.87** | <u>10.82</u> | **10.60** | 9.89 | <u>10.68</u> | <u>10.93</u> | **10.50** | **10.63** | <u>11.06</u> | <u>9.51</u> |
| Flux-dev | <u>10.43</u> | <u>11.70</u> | <u>10.32</u> | 9.39 | **10.93** | <u>10.38</u> | <u>10.01</u> | **10.84** | **11.24** | <u>10.21</u> | 10.38 | **11.24** | 9.16 |
| Playgroundv2.5 | 10.27 | 11.07 | 9.84 | <u>9.64</u> | 10.45 | <u>10.38</u> | 9.94 | 10.51 | <u>10.62</u> | 10.15 | <u>10.62</u> | 10.84 | 9.39 |
| Infinity | 10.26 | 11.17 | 9.95 | 9.43 | 10.36 | 9.27 | **10.11** | 10.36 | 10.59 | 10.08 | 10.30 | 10.59 | **9.62** |
| CogView4 | 9.61 | 10.72 | 9.86 | 9.33 | 9.88 | 9.16 | 9.45 | 9.69 | 9.86 | 9.45 | 9.49 | 10.16 | 8.97 |
| PixArt-Σ | 9.37 | 10.08 | 9.07 | 8.41 | 9.83 | 8.86 | 8.87 | 9.44 | 9.57 | 9.52 | 9.73 | 10.35 | 8.58 |
| Gemini 2.0 Flash | 9.21 | 9.98 | 8.44 | 7.64 | 10.11 | 9.42 | 9.01 | 9.74 | 9.64 | 9.55 | 10.16 | 7.61 | 9.23 |
| SDXL | 8.20 | 8.67 | 7.63 | 7.53 | 8.57 | 8.18 | 7.76 | 8.65 | 8.85 | 8.32 | 8.43 | 8.78 | 7.29 |
| HunyuanDiT | 8.19 | 7.96 | 8.11 | 8.28 | 8.71 | 7.24 | 7.86 | 8.33 | 8.55 | 8.28 | 8.31 | 8.48 | 8.20 |
| Stable Diffusion 3 Medium | 5.31 | 6.70 | 5.98 | 5.15 | 5.25 | 4.09 | 5.24 | 4.25 | 5.71 | 5.84 | 6.01 | 5.71 | 4.58 |
| SD2 | -0.24 | -0.34 | -0.56 | -1.35 | -0.24 | -0.54 | -0.32 | 1.00 | 1.11 | -0.01 | -0.38 | -0.38 | -0.84 |

</details>

---

## 🎯 CoHP (Chain-of-Human-Preference)

COHP is our novel reasoning approach for iterative image refinement that efficiently improves image quality without requiring additional training data. It works by generating images with multiple diffusion models, selecting the best one using reward models, and then iteratively refining it through image-to-image generation.

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  <img src="assets/cohp.png" alt="cohp" width="600"/>
</p>

### 🚀 Usage

#### Basic Command

```bash
python hpsv3/cohp/run_cohp.py \
    --prompt "A beautiful sunset over mountains" \
    --index "sample_001" \
    --device "cuda:0" \
    --reward_model "hpsv3"
```

#### Parameters

- `--prompt`: Text prompt for image generation (required)
- `--index`: Unique identifier for saving results (required)  
- `--device`: GPU device to use (default: 'cuda:1')
- `--reward_model`: Reward model for scoring images
  - `hpsv3`: HPSv3 model (default, recommended)
  - `hpsv2`: HPSv2 model
  - `imagereward`: ImageReward model
  - `pickscore`: PickScore model

#### Supported Generation Models

COHP uses multiple state-of-the-art diffusion models for initial generation: **FLUX.1 dev**, **Kolors**, **Stable Diffusion 3 Medium**, **Playground v2.5**

#### How COHP Works

1. **Multi-Model Generation**: Generates images using all supported models
2. **Reward Scoring**: Evaluates each image using the specified reward model
3. **Best Model Selection**: Chooses the model that produced the highest-scoring image
4. **Iterative Refinement**: Performs 5 rounds of image-to-image generation to improve quality
5. **Adaptive Strength**: Uses strength=0.8 for rounds 1-2, then 0.5 for rounds 3-5

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## 🦾 Results as Reward Model

We perform [DanceGRPO](https://github.com/XueZeyue/DanceGRPO) as the reinforcement learning method. Here are some results.
All experiments using the same setting and we use **Stable Diffusion 1.4** as our backbone.

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  <img src="assets/rl1.jpg"  width="600"/>
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  <img src="assets/rl2.jpg"  width="600"/>
</p>


### More Results of HPsv3 as Reward Model (Stable Diffusion 1.4)
<p align="center">
  <img src="assets/rl_teaser.jpg" alt="cohp" width="600"/>
</p>

## 📚 Citation

If you find HPSv3 useful in your research, please cite our work:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{hpsv3,
  title={HPSv3: Towards Wide-Spectrum Human Preference Score},
  author={Ma, Yuhang and Wu, Xiaoshi and Sun, Keqiang and Li, Hongsheng},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
  year={2025}
}
```


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## 🙏 Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the [VideoAlign](https://github.com/KwaiVGI/VideoAlign) codebase for providing valuable references.

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## 💬 Support

For questions and support:
- **Issues**: [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/MizzenAI/HPSv3/issues)
- **Email**: yhshui@mizzen.ai & yhma@mizzen.ai