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arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-08

Tree-of-Thoughts Reasoning for Text-to-Image In-Context Learning

Stepanida Alekseeva, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan Lee

In text-to-image in-context learning (T2I-ICL), a model has to infer a latent compositional pattern from fewshot demonstrations for generating a query image. Recent studies show that state-of-the-art multimodal large language models struggle with this setting, particularly due to limited compositional reasoning and sensitivity to prompt construction. In this work, we propose a Tree-of-Thoughts (ToT) reasoning framework for T2I-ICL that introduces a multi-stage reasoning and selection layer that generates, evaluates, and selects among multiple candidate hypotheses before constructing the final prompt for image synthesis. By exploring alternative reasoning branches and selecting a coherent interpretation, the proposed approach mitigates prompt ambiguity and compositional errors. We implement the proposed approach in a complete ToT-T2IICL inference pipeline and evaluate it on the CoBSAT benchmark. Both qualitative and quantitative results show that structured multi-branch reasoning leads to more consistent and semantically aligned image generation compared to baseline and Chain-of-Thought prompting strategies, without any additional training or fine-tuning.

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