---
title: CTRL-X
sdk: gradio
short_description: Structure and Appearance Control
app_file: app_ctrlx.py
---
# Ctrl-X: Controlling Structure and Appearance for Text-To-Image Generation Without Guidance (NeurIPS 2024)

<a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07540"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/arXiv-Paper-red"></a> 
<a href="https://genforce.github.io/ctrl-x"><img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Project-Page-yellow"></a>
[![GitHub](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/genforce/ctrl-x?style=social)](https://github.com/genforce/ctrl-x)

[Kuan Heng Lin](https://kuanhenglin.github.io)<sup>1*</sup>, [Sicheng Mo](https://sichengmo.github.io/)<sup>1*</sup>, [Ben Klingher](https://bklingher.github.io)<sup>1</sup>, [Fangzhou Mu](https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~fmu/)<sup>2</sup>, [Bolei Zhou](https://boleizhou.github.io/)<sup>1</sup> <br>
<sup>1</sup>UCLA&emsp;<sup>2</sup>NVIDIA <br>
<sup>*</sup>Equal contribution <br>

![Ctrl-X teaser figure](docs/assets/teaser_github.jpg)

## Getting started

### Environment setup

Our code is built on top of [`diffusers v0.28.0`](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers). To set up the environment, please run the following.
```
conda env create -f environment.yaml
conda activate ctrlx
```

### Gradio demo

We provide a user interface for testing our method. Running the following command starts the demo.
```
python3 app_ctrlx.py
```
Have fun playing around! :D

## Contact

For any questions, thoughts, discussions, and any other things you want to reach out for, please contact [Kuan Heng (Jordan) Lin](https://kuanhenglin.github.io) (kuanhenglin@ucla.edu).

## Reference

If you use our code in your research, please cite the following work.

```bibtex
@inproceedings{lin2024ctrlx,
    author = {Lin, {Kuan Heng} and Mo, Sicheng and Klingher, Ben and Mu, Fangzhou and Zhou, Bolei},
    booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
    title = {Ctrl-X: Controlling Structure and Appearance for Text-To-Image Generation Without Guidance},
    year = {2024}
}
```