Dual-Seed Evolutionary Algorithm for Noise Optimization in Diffusion Models

Abstract

Diffusion models have emerged as state-of-the-art generative methods, particularly excelling in conditional tasks such as prompt-driven image synthesis. While recent research emphasizes the pivotal role of noise seeds in enhancing text-image alignment and generating human-preferred outputs,these works predominantly rely on random Gaussian noise or heuristic local adjustments, , overlooking the potential of global optimization trategies to systematically improve generation quality. To bridge this gap, we propose Seed Optimization based on Evolution (SOE), a hybrid framework that integrates global evolutionary search with local semantic refinement. The global evolutionary stage conducts seed selection by jointly optimizing text-image alignment (via CLIP-Score) and human preference estimation (via ImageReward), while the local stage employs diffusion inversion to inject conditional semantics into the noise seed. Together, these components constitute a model-agnostic, training-free optimization framework for conditional diffusion models. Extensive experiments across various diffusion models demonstrate that SOE consistently improves semantic fidelity and visual quality, highlighting its generalizability and potential as a plug-and-play enhancement for generative diffusion pipelines.