Fixing Ideogram 4's Banner and Boosting Prompt Adherence by Fine-Tuning the Text Encoder
mrjackspade · reddit · 2026-09-03
The author fine-tuned only Ideogram 4's text encoder — no changes to the model or environment — to remove the grey banner from natural-language prompts and improve prompt adherence. Using 4000 teacher/student prompt pairs (students as raw NL prompts, teachers processed by Nemotron's "Magic Prompt" instruction), the TE was trained to elicit the same response from student prompts as teacher prompts naturally produce. Rationale: the TE is already a language model, avoiding a second LM in the stack. Weights are open on Hugging Face.
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