SPF-Portrait: Towards Pure Text-to-Portrait Customization with Semantic Pollution-Free Fine-Tuning

Fine-tuning a pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) model on a tailored portrait dataset is the mainstream method for text-to-portrait customization. However, existing methods often severely impact the original model's behavior (e.g., changes in ID, layout, etc.) while customizing portrait attributes. To address this issue, we propose SPF-Portrait, a pioneering work to purely understand customized target semantics and minimize disruption to the original model. In our SPF-Portrait, we design a dual-path contrastive learning pipeline, which introduces the original model as a behavioral alignment reference for the conventional fine-tuning path. During the contrastive learning, we propose a novel Semantic-Aware Fine Control Map that indicates the intensity of response regions of the target semantics, to spatially guide the alignment process between the contrastive paths. It adaptively balances the behavioral alignment across different regions and the responsiveness of the target semantics. Furthermore, we propose a novel response enhancement mechanism to reinforce the presentation of target semantics, while mitigating representation discrepancy inherent in direct cross-modal supervision. Through the above strategies, we achieve incremental learning of customized target semantics for pure text-to-portrait customization. Extensive experiments show that SPF-Portrait achieves state-of-the-art performance. Project page:this https URL

@article{xian2025_2504.00396,
  title={ SPF-Portrait: Towards Pure Text-to-Portrait Customization with Semantic Pollution-Free Fine-Tuning },
  author={ Xiaole Xian and Zhichao Liao and Qingyu Li and Wenyu Qin and Pengfei Wan and Weicheng Xie and Long Zeng and Linlin Shen and Pingfa Feng },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.00396},
  year={ 2025 }
}