MoA: Mixture-of-Attention for Subject-Context Disentanglement in
  Personalized Image Generation
Kuan-Chieh Wang Daniil Ostashev Yuwei Fang Sergey Tulyakov Kfir Aberman
We introduce a new architecture for personalization of text-to-image
diffusion models, coined Mixture-of-Attention (MoA). Inspired by the
Mixture-of-Experts mechanism utilized in large language models (LLMs), MoA
distributes the generation workload between two attention pathways: a
personalized branch and a non-personalized prior branch. MoA is designed to
retain the original model's prior by fixing its attention layers in the prior
branch, while minimally intervening in the generation process with the
personalized branch that learns to embed subjects in the layout and context
generated by the prior branch. A novel routing mechanism manages the
distribution of pixels in each layer across these branches to optimize the
blend of personalized and generic content creation. Once trained, MoA
facilitates the creation of high-quality, personalized images featuring
multiple subjects with compositions and interactions as diverse as those
generated by the original model. Crucially, MoA enhances the distinction
between the model's pre-existing capability and the newly augmented
personalized intervention, thereby offering a more disentangled subject-context
control that was previously unattainable. Project page:
https://snap-research.github.io/mixture-of-attention