BeyondAesthetics: CulturalCompetencein Text-to-ImageModels

In particular, we apply this approach to build CUBE (CUltural BEnchmark forText-to-Image models), afirst-of-its-kind benchmark toevaluate cultural competence of T2I models.2 CUBE covers cultural artifacts associated with 8 countries across different geo-cultural regions and along 3 concepts: cuisine, landmarks, and art. CUBE consists of 1) CUBE-1K, a set of high-quality prompts thatenable theevaluation ofcultural awareness, and2)CUBE-CSpace, a larger dataset of cultural artifacts that serves as grounding to evaluate cultural diversity.