Generative Vision Interview Questions #13 - The Cross-Attention Trap

Why traditional text conditioning quietly bleeds attributes across your generated image, and the bidirectional sequence fusion that finally fixes compositional binding.

You’re in a Senior AI Engineer interview at Midjourney and the interviewer asks:

“You switched your text-to-image model from cross-attention to joint attention. Walk me through what actually changes about how text and image tokens talk to each other, and what specific failure that fixes.”

Don’t say: “Joint attention is better because Stable Diffusion 3 us…