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## Attention Masking (Latest Feature - Nov 23, 2025)
## Attention Masking + Background Concatenation (Tested Nov 23, 2025)
**ComfyUI Requirement:** PR #5942 (merged ~1 year ago, widely available)
**Status:** ✅ **WORKING** - Strict attention masking + background concatenation
### Problem Solved: Spatial Mismatch
### The Core Problem
When you prompt "flying bird" with a region in the upper-right, but the model naturally wants to generate birds center-frame, standard mask conditioning alone may not be strong enough to force the generation into your region.
**Without attention masking:**
- User prompts "bird" in upper-right region
- Model generates bird in center-frame (natural placement)
- Region mask blocks center pixels
- **Result: NO BIRD VISIBLE AT ALL** ❌
### Solution: Triple-Mask System
**Attention masking forces correct placement:**
- Model can ONLY generate bird pixels in upper-right region
- Bird appears exactly where user wants it ✅
We now use **THREE complementary systems** working together:
### Testing Results
1. **`mask` (feathered)** - Visual blending
**Attempt 1 - Strict attention masking alone:**
- ✅ ALL regions appeared in correct locations
- ❌ Each had independent background (no scene unity)
**Attempt 2 - Relaxed attention masking:**
- ❌ Only ONE region appeared (conflicts between masks)
- Problem: Multiple attention masks competed, strongest won
**Attempt 3 - No attention masking:**
- ❌ Risk of regions not appearing (model places content naturally, mask blocks it)
- Cannot rely on this for precise regional control
**Final Solution - Strict attention masking + background concatenation:**
- ✅ ALL regions appear in correct locations (attention masking works!)
- ✅ Unified scene context (background in every prompt)
- ✅ Natural blending expected (shared background knowledge)
### The CORRECT Solution
**Attention masking + background concatenation + feathered masks:**
1. **`mask` (feathered)** - Spatial control
- Soft gradient edges if `soften_masks=True`
- Binary 1.0 values (not 0.8)
- Smooth visual composition
2. **`mask_strength`** - Conditioning intensity
- Range: 0.0 to 10.0 (default 2.5-4.5)
- Controls HOW STRONGLY prompt is applied
- Higher = region content more prominent
3. **`attention_mask` (binary)** - Spatial forcing **[NEW!]**
- Always binary 1.0 values, NO feathering
- Forces model to ONLY attend to this region
3. **`attention_mask`** - Forces correct spatial placement **[CRITICAL!]**
- Blocks all attention by default (-10000.0)
- Enables text→image ONLY for region's pixels
- Enables image→image ONLY within region
- Prevents "bird center-frame" when region is upper-right
- Model-agnostic (Flux, SD3, SDXL, etc.)
- Each region gets its own attention mask
4. **Background concatenation** - Unified scene context **[KEY FOR BLENDING!]**
- Prepend background prompt to EACH regional prompt
- Example: "photo of city street at night, red sports car"
- All regions share same scene knowledge
- Enables natural blending despite strict attention masks
### Implementation Details
**Code:** `RegionalPrompting.py:450-483`
**Step 1: Background concatenation** (`RegionalPrompting.py:357-369`)
```python
# Create binary mask
mask[0, y_latent:y_end, x_latent:x_end] = 1.0
# Each regional prompt includes full scene context
for i, prompt in enumerate(prompts):
if i > 0 and prompt.strip():
combined = f"{background_prompt}, {prompt}"
prompts_final.append(combined)
```
# Clone for feathering (visual blending only)
feathered_mask = mask.clone()
if soften_masks:
# Apply feathering to feathered_mask...
**Step 2: Strict attention masking** (`RegionalPrompting.py:499-533`)
```python
# Block all attention, then enable specific paths
attention_mask = torch.full((1, total_tokens, total_tokens), -10000.0)
# Apply BOTH masks to conditioning
n[1]['mask'] = feathered_mask # Soft edges for visual blending
n[1]['mask_strength'] = strength # Intensity (2.5-4.5)
n[1]['attention_mask'] = mask # Binary spatial forcing
# Enable text-to-text (prompts interact)
attention_mask[0, :txt_tokens, :txt_tokens] = 0.0
# Enable text→image ONLY for this region's pixels
for y in range(y_latent, y_end):
for x in range(x_latent, x_end):
img_idx = txt_tokens + (y * latent_width + x)
attention_mask[0, :txt_tokens, img_idx] = 0.0 # Text → image
attention_mask[0, img_idx, :txt_tokens] = 0.0 # Image → text
# Enable image→image ONLY within region (prevents cross-region bleed)
for idx1 in region_indices:
for idx2 in region_indices:
attention_mask[0, idx1, idx2] = 0.0
n[1]['attention_mask'] = attention_mask
n[1]['attention_mask_img_shape'] = (latent_height, latent_width)
```
**Key Points:**
- `mask` stays binary (1.0) for attention control
- `feathered_mask` gets gradient edges for smooth visuals
- Both applied to same conditioning - they work together
- Strength values (2.5-4.5) still needed for intensity control
- **Attention masking:** Forces precise spatial placement
- **Background concatenation:** Provides scene unity despite strict masking
- **Feathering:** Smooth visual transitions at region edges
- **Result:** ALL regions appear in correct locations WITH natural blending
### Why Both Masks?
### Why This Works
- **Without attention_mask:** Bird might leak to center-frame where model naturally places birds
- **With attention_mask:** Model forced to respect region boundaries precisely
- **Feathering still needed:** For smooth visual transitions between regions
### Performance
- Negligible overhead (<1% slower)
- Works with all mask-based models
- Degrades gracefully if ComfyUI doesn't support it (just uses standard mask)
- **Forced placement:** Attention masking prevents center-drift
- **Unified context:** All regions know scene is "city street at night"
- **No prompt leakage:** "bird" text can't affect car pixels
- **Natural composition:** Shared background knowledge enables coherent blending
- **Model-agnostic:** Works with Flux, SD3, SDXL, Qwen-Image, etc.
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if num_regions > 4:
print(f"⚠️ Warning: {num_regions} regions detected. Most models work best with 3-4 regions maximum.")
# Concatenate background to regional prompts for visual coherence
# This ensures all regions share the same scene context
prompts_final = []
for i, prompt in enumerate(prompts):
if i == 0: # Background
prompts_final.append(prompt if prompt and prompt.strip() else "")
else: # Regional prompts - prepend background for unified composition
if prompt and prompt.strip():
combined = f"{background_prompt}, {prompt}" if background_prompt and background_prompt.strip() else prompt
prompts_final.append(combined)
print(f" 📝 Region {i} combined prompt: '{combined[:60]}...'")
else:
prompts_final.append("")
# Encode each prompt using CLIP
# ComfyUI's CLIP object handles multi-encoder complexity internally
encoded_conditionings = []
for prompt in prompts:
for prompt in prompts_final:
if prompt and prompt.strip():
tokens = clip.tokenize(prompt)
cond, pooled = clip.encode_from_tokens(tokens, return_pooled=True)
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if x_end - 1 - edge_idx >= x_latent:
feathered_mask[0, y_latent:y_end, x_end - 1 - edge_idx] = torch.minimum(feathered_mask[0, y_latent:y_end, x_end - 1 - edge_idx], torch.tensor(fade))
# Apply mask-based conditioning with optimized attention masking
# Apply mask-based conditioning with attention masking
# Background concatenation provides scene context
# Attention masking forces correct spatial placement
for t in encoded_conditionings[i]:
n = [t[0], t[1].copy()]
n[1]['mask'] = feathered_mask # Feathered for smooth visual blending
n[1]['mask_strength'] = max(0.0, min(10.0, strength))
n[1]['set_area_to_bounds'] = False
# Create attention mask for precise regional control (Flux/DiT models)
# KEY INSIGHT: Only mask text-to-image cross-contamination
# Allow image-to-image attention for proper blending
# Create attention mask for precise regional control
# This FORCES the model to generate content in the correct region
cond_tensor = t[0] # [batch, seq_len, hidden_dim]
txt_tokens = cond_tensor.shape[1] # Number of text tokens from encoding
img_tokens = latent_height * latent_width # Flattened image tokens
txt_tokens = cond_tensor.shape[1]
img_tokens = latent_height * latent_width
total_tokens = txt_tokens + img_tokens
# Initialize with 0.0 (allow all attention by default)
attention_mask = torch.zeros((1, total_tokens, total_tokens), dtype=torch.float32)
# Initialize blocking all (-10000), then enable specific paths
attention_mask = torch.full((1, total_tokens, total_tokens), -10000.0, dtype=torch.float32)
# Block text-to-image attention for image tokens OUTSIDE this region
# This prevents "bird" prompt from affecting car region, etc.
# Use vectorized operations for speed
# Enable text-to-text attention (prompts can interact)
attention_mask[0, :txt_tokens, :txt_tokens] = 0.0
# Create boolean mask for this region's image tokens
region_mask = torch.zeros(img_tokens, dtype=torch.bool)
# Enable text-to-image ONLY for this region's pixels
# This prevents "bird" text from affecting car region pixels
for y in range(y_latent, y_end):
start_idx = y * latent_width + x_latent
end_idx = y * latent_width + x_end
region_mask[start_idx:end_idx] = True
for x in range(x_latent, x_end):
img_token_idx = txt_tokens + (y * latent_width + x)
attention_mask[0, :txt_tokens, img_token_idx] = 0.0
attention_mask[0, img_token_idx, :txt_tokens] = 0.0
# Block text attending to image tokens OUTSIDE this region
# Text tokens (rows 0:txt_tokens) to image tokens (cols txt_tokens:total_tokens)
for img_idx in range(img_tokens):
if not region_mask[img_idx]:
# This image token is outside the region - block text from attending to it
attention_mask[0, :txt_tokens, txt_tokens + img_idx] = -10000.0
# Enable image-to-image ONLY within this region
# Use vectorized approach for performance
region_img_indices = []
for y in range(y_latent, y_end):
for x in range(x_latent, x_end):
region_img_indices.append(txt_tokens + (y * latent_width + x))
# NOTE: We do NOT block image-to-image or image-to-text attention
# This allows proper visual blending between regions while preventing
# text prompt cross-contamination
# Allow attention between all pixels in this region
for idx1 in region_img_indices:
for idx2 in region_img_indices:
attention_mask[0, idx1, idx2] = 0.0
# Set attention mask parameters for ComfyUI
n[1]['attention_mask'] = attention_mask
n[1]['attention_mask_img_shape'] = (latent_height, latent_width)
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node.widgets[offset + 3].value = values[arrayIndex][3] // box_h
}
},
{ step: 10, min: 1, max: 2, tooltip: "Select which region to edit (use box_x/y/w/h below to adjust position)" }
{ step: 10, min: 1, max: 3, tooltip: "Select which region to edit (use box_x/y/w/h below to adjust position)" }
)
CUSTOM_INT(this, "box_x", 0, function (v, _, node) {transformFunc(this, v, node, 0)}, {tooltip: "X position of selected region (pixels from left)"})
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node.widgets[offset + 3].value = values[arrayIndex][3] // box_h
}
},
{ step: 10, min: 1, max: 2, tooltip: "Select which region to edit (use box_x/y/w/h below to adjust position)" }
{ step: 10, min: 1, max: 3, tooltip: "Select which region to edit (use box_x/y/w/h below to adjust position)" }
)
CUSTOM_INT(this, "box_x", 0, function (v, _, node) {transformFunc(this, v, node, 0)}, {tooltip: "X position of selected region (pixels from left)"})