Adv-GRPO: How Adversarial Reinforcement Learning Revolutionizes AI Image Generation

The Image as Its Own Reward: How Adversarial Reinforcement Learning Finally Fixes AI Image Generation What if the biggest problem in AI image generation isn’t the model’s ability, but how we tell it what “good” means? For years, researchers have struggled with a fundamental misalignment in reinforcement learning for text-to-image models: our reward functions keep teaching models to game the system rather than create genuinely better images. This article explores Adv-GRPO, a framework that treats images as their own reward source, eliminating reward hacking while delivering measurable improvements in quality, aesthetics, and text alignment. Why Do Existing RL Methods for …