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Research

Set by what breaks.
Not by what scores.

We train and evaluate our own models, so the agenda comes from the failures people actually hit rather than from a leaderboard.

Focus areas

Four open problems

Ordered by how often users raise them, which is also the order we work on them.

01

Style consistency across a set

Generating one good image is close to solved. Generating forty that belong together is not. We are working on conditioning that holds a look stable across seeds, subjects and aspect ratios.

02

Structure the eye checks first

Hands, teeth, reflections, and text inside an image. People forgive a soft background; they do not forgive six fingers. Most of our evaluation weight sits here.

03

Fewer steps, same quality

Every step is compute someone pays for. Work on schedulers and distillation aims to hold output quality while cutting the number of passes needed to reach it.

04

Provenance that survives

Content credentials are easy to attach and easy to strip. We are interested in marking that survives a screenshot, a re-encode and a crop.

How we evaluate

Benchmarks we do not fully trust

Automated image-quality scores reward images that look plausible at a glance. They are poor at catching the failures that actually cause someone to throw a generation away and start again.

So alongside standard metrics we run structured human review on a fixed prompt set, weighted toward the failure categories above, and we track how often a generation gets regenerated — the most honest quality signal we have.

An abstract field of blue and magenta light, suggesting a diffusion process.
What we measure

Four signals we actually watch

  • A fixed prompt set, re-run in full on every model revision
  • Human review weighted toward structural failures, not overall prettiness
  • Regeneration rate, tracked as a proxy for how often we got it wrong
  • Style drift measured across a whole set rather than per image
Publications

Nothing published yet

We have not published papers. When we do they will be listed here rather than announced and never linked. In the meantime the work shows up in the model, and the gallery is the honest version of a results table.

Working on the same problems?

If you break our model in an interesting way, we want the prompt that did it.