SPF-Portrait : Towards Pure Portrait Customization with Semantic Pollution-Free Fine-tuning

Xiaole Xian★ ♱ ♡, Zhichao Liao★ ♱ ♤, Qingyu Li, Wenyu Qin, Pengfei Wan, Weicheng Xie✉ ♡,
Long Zeng✉ ♤, Linlin Shen, Pingfa Fengn
Co-first authors (equal contribution)  Corresponding author 
Work done during internship at KwaiVGI, Kuaishou Technology 
Shenzhen University,  Tsinghua University,  Kuaishou Technology 

SPF-Portrait: We introduce a training pipeline eliminates the pollution during human attributes of fine-tuning.

Abstract

Fine-tuning a pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) model on a tailored portrait dataset is the mainstream method for text-driven customization of portrait attributes. Due to Semantic Pollution during fine-tuning, existing methods struggle to maintain the original model's behavior and achieve incremental learning while customizing target attributes. To address this issue, we propose SPF-Portrait, a pioneering work to purely understand customized semantics while eliminating semantic pollution in text-driven portrait customization. In our SPF-Portrait, we propose a dual-path pipeline that introduces the original model as a reference for the conventional fine-tuning path. Through contrastive learning, we ensure adaptation to target attributes and purposefully align other unrelated attributes with the original portrait. We introduce a novel Semantic-Aware Fine Control Map, which represents the precise response regions of the target semantics, to spatially guide the alignment process between the contrastive paths. This alignment process not only effectively preserves the performance of the original model but also avoids over-alignment. Furthermore, we propose a novel response enhancement mechanism to reinforce the performance of target attributes, while mitigating representation discrepancy inherent in direct cross-modal supervision. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SPF-Portrait achieves state-of-the-art performance.

SPF-Portrait Overview

Given a batch data of image-text pairs, SPF-Portrait can adapt the T2I model to the new concepts without semantic pollution. The fine-tuned T2I model can achieve the target attributes while inherits the original model's pretrained priors including text understanding, layout details and so on.

More visualization Results

Qualitative Comparisons with SOTA methods. We compare ours with naive fine-tuning, PEFT-based methods (LoRA, AdaLoRA) and the decoupled methods (Tokencompose, Magenet). Please zoom in for more details. Our approach not only achieves the target semantics, but also better preserves the behavior of the original model.

BibTeX

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      @article{xian2025spf,
        title={SPF-Portrait: Towards Pure Portrait Customization with Semantic Pollution-Free Fine-tuning},
        author={Xian, Xiaole and Liao, Zhichao and Li, Qingyu and Qin, Wenyu and Wan, Pengfei and Xie, Weicheng and Zeng, Long and Shen, Linlin and Feng, Pingfa},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.00396},
        year={2025}
        }