Edit-Compass and EditReward-Compass are new unified benchmarks for fine-grained image editing evaluation and realistic reward modeling in reinforcement learning optimization.
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Uniworld-V2: Reinforce Image Editing with Diffusion Negative-aware Finetuning and MLLM Implicit Feedback
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Instruction-based image editing has achieved remarkable progress; however, models solely trained via supervised fine-tuning often overfit to annotated patterns, hindering their ability to explore and generalize beyond training distributions. To this end, we introduce Edit-R1, a novel post-training framework for instruction-based image editing based on policy optimization. Specifically, we utilize Diffusion Negative-aware Finetuning (DiffusionNFT), a likelihood-free policy optimization method consistent with the flow matching forward process, thereby enabling the use of higher-order samplers and more efficient training. Another key challenge here is the absence of a universal reward model, resulting from the diverse nature of editing instructions and tasks. To bridge this gap, we employ a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) as a unified, training-free reward model, leveraging its output logits to provide fine-grained feedback. Furthermore, we carefully design a low-variance group filtering mechanism to reduce MLLM scoring noise and stabilize optimization. \texttt{UniWorld-V2}, trained with this framework, achieves \textbf{state-of-the-art} results on the ImgEdit and GEdit-Bench benchmarks, scoring 4.49 and 7.83, respectively. Crucially, our framework is model-agnostic, delivering substantial performance gains when applied to diverse base models like Qwen-Image-Edit and FLUX-Kontext, demonstrating its wide applicability. Code and models are publicly available to support further research.
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RewardHarness self-evolves a tool-and-skill library from 100 preference examples to reach 47.4% accuracy on image-edit evaluation, beating GPT-5, and yields stronger RL-tuned models.
GDMD replaces raw-sample rewards with distillation-gradient rewards in RL-guided diffusion distillation, yielding 4-step models that surpass their multi-step teachers on GenEval and human preference metrics.
UniGeo unifies geometric guidance across three levels in video models to reduce geometric drift and improve consistency in camera-controllable image editing.
UniEditBench unifies image and video editing evaluation with a nine-plus-eight operation taxonomy and cost-effective 4B/8B distilled MLLM evaluators that align with human judgments.
DLEBench is the first benchmark for small-scale object editing in instruction-based image editing models, using 1889 samples, seven instruction types, and a dual-mode evaluation protocol to reveal performance gaps in 10 tested models.
A new data pipeline using real photos, entity removal, and image-to-video models plus a cross-view attention loss enables text-driven generation of actors in reference scenes with improved alignment.
Semantic Generative Tuning uses image segmentation as a generative proxy to align misaligned representation spaces in unified multimodal models and improve both perception and generative layout fidelity.
Super-Linear Advantage Shaping (SLAS) introduces a non-linear geometric policy update for RL post-training of text-to-image models that reshapes the local policy space via advantage-dependent Fisher-Rao weighting to reduce reward hacking and improve performance over GRPO baselines.
Auto-Rubric as Reward externalizes VLM preferences into structured rubrics and applies Rubric Policy Optimization to create more reliable binary rewards for multimodal generation, outperforming pairwise models on text-to-image and editing benchmarks.
SpatialEdit provides a benchmark, large synthetic dataset, and baseline model for precise object and camera spatial manipulations in images, with the model beating priors on spatial editing.
GenEvolve introduces a self-evolving agent framework for image generation using tool-orchestrated trajectories and Visual Experience Distillation to achieve claimed SOTA results on benchmarks.
Edit-GRPO decouples editing and preservation objectives via region-specific signals in a policy optimization framework to improve locality in image editing tasks.
SenseNova-U1 presents native unified multimodal models that match top understanding VLMs while delivering strong performance in image generation, infographics, and interleaved tasks via the NEO-unify architecture.
Diff.-NPO frames diffusion alignment as a self-play game reaching Nash equilibrium and reports better text-to-image results than prior DPO-style methods.
SmartPhotoCrafter performs automatic photographic image editing by coupling an Image Critic module that identifies deficiencies with a Photographic Artist module that generates edits, trained via multi-stage pretraining, reasoning supervision, and reinforcement learning.
Z-Image is an efficient 6B-parameter foundation model for image generation that rivals larger commercial systems in photorealism and bilingual text rendering through a new single-stream diffusion transformer and streamlined training.
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Edit-Compass & EditReward-Compass: A Unified Benchmark for Image Editing and Reward Modeling
Edit-Compass and EditReward-Compass are new unified benchmarks for fine-grained image editing evaluation and realistic reward modeling in reinforcement learning optimization.
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Inline Critic Steers Image Editing
Inline Critic uses a learnable token to critique and steer a frozen image-editing model's intermediate layers during generation, delivering state-of-the-art results on GEdit-Bench, RISEBench, and KRIS-Bench.
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RewardHarness: Self-Evolving Agentic Post-Training
RewardHarness self-evolves a tool-and-skill library from 100 preference examples to reach 47.4% accuracy on image-edit evaluation, beating GPT-5, and yields stronger RL-tuned models.
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Guiding Distribution Matching Distillation with Gradient-Based Reinforcement Learning
GDMD replaces raw-sample rewards with distillation-gradient rewards in RL-guided diffusion distillation, yielding 4-step models that surpass their multi-step teachers on GenEval and human preference metrics.
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UniGeo: Unifying Geometric Guidance for Camera-Controllable Image Editing via Video Models
UniGeo unifies geometric guidance across three levels in video models to reduce geometric drift and improve consistency in camera-controllable image editing.
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UniEditBench: A Unified and Cost-Effective Benchmark for Image and Video Editing via Distilled MLLMs
UniEditBench unifies image and video editing evaluation with a nine-plus-eight operation taxonomy and cost-effective 4B/8B distilled MLLM evaluators that align with human judgments.
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DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model
DLEBench is the first benchmark for small-scale object editing in instruction-based image editing models, using 1889 samples, seven instruction types, and a dual-mode evaluation protocol to reveal performance gaps in 10 tested models.
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Setting the Stage: Text-Driven Scene-Consistent Image Generation
A new data pipeline using real photos, entity removal, and image-to-video models plus a cross-view attention loss enables text-driven generation of actors in reference scenes with improved alignment.
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Semantic Generative Tuning for Unified Multimodal Models
Semantic Generative Tuning uses image segmentation as a generative proxy to align misaligned representation spaces in unified multimodal models and improve both perception and generative layout fidelity.
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Power Reinforcement Post-Training of Text-to-Image Models with Super-Linear Advantage Shaping
Super-Linear Advantage Shaping (SLAS) introduces a non-linear geometric policy update for RL post-training of text-to-image models that reshapes the local policy space via advantage-dependent Fisher-Rao weighting to reduce reward hacking and improve performance over GRPO baselines.
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Auto-Rubric as Reward: From Implicit Preferences to Explicit Multimodal Generative Criteria
Auto-Rubric as Reward externalizes VLM preferences into structured rubrics and applies Rubric Policy Optimization to create more reliable binary rewards for multimodal generation, outperforming pairwise models on text-to-image and editing benchmarks.
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SpatialEdit: Benchmarking Fine-Grained Image Spatial Editing
SpatialEdit provides a benchmark, large synthetic dataset, and baseline model for precise object and camera spatial manipulations in images, with the model beating priors on spatial editing.
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GenEvolve: Self-Evolving Image Generation Agents via Tool-Orchestrated Visual Experience Distillation
GenEvolve introduces a self-evolving agent framework for image generation using tool-orchestrated trajectories and Visual Experience Distillation to achieve claimed SOTA results on benchmarks.
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Edit-GRPO: A Locality-Preserving Policy Optimization Framework for Image Editing
Edit-GRPO decouples editing and preservation objectives via region-specific signals in a policy optimization framework to improve locality in image editing tasks.
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SenseNova-U1: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with NEO-unify Architecture
SenseNova-U1 presents native unified multimodal models that match top understanding VLMs while delivering strong performance in image generation, infographics, and interleaved tasks via the NEO-unify architecture.
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Towards General Preference Alignment: Diffusion Models at Nash Equilibrium
Diff.-NPO frames diffusion alignment as a self-play game reaching Nash equilibrium and reports better text-to-image results than prior DPO-style methods.
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SmartPhotoCrafter: Unified Reasoning, Generation and Optimization for Automatic Photographic Image Editing
SmartPhotoCrafter performs automatic photographic image editing by coupling an Image Critic module that identifies deficiencies with a Photographic Artist module that generates edits, trained via multi-stage pretraining, reasoning supervision, and reinforcement learning.
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Z-Image: An Efficient Image Generation Foundation Model with Single-Stream Diffusion Transformer
Z-Image is an efficient 6B-parameter foundation model for image generation that rivals larger commercial systems in photorealism and bilingual text rendering through a new single-stream diffusion transformer and streamlined training.
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JoyAI-Image: Awaking Spatial Intelligence in Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation
JoyAI-Image unifies visual understanding and generation via an MLLM-MMDiT architecture with spatial training signals to reach competitive benchmark performance and stronger spatial intelligence.
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