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arxiv: 2509.20360 · v3 · submitted 2025-09-24 · 💻 cs.CV

EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning

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A single model unifies image and video editing and generation by converting all inputs to one token sequence that supports in-context learning across modalities.

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The paper presents EditVerse as a framework that treats text, images, and videos as parts of the same sequence of tokens fed into one model. Self-attention over this sequence lets the model pick up editing instructions from context examples and move knowledge between still-image tasks and video tasks without separate components for each. To make this possible for video, the authors built a pipeline that produced 232,000 video editing examples and trained the model jointly with large image and video collections. They also released EditVerseBench, a new test set for instruction-based video editing. The central claim is that this unified setup delivers stronger results than current separate systems and shows new abilities that emerge when modalities share the same learning process.

Core claim

By representing text, images, and videos as a single unified token sequence and applying self-attention, EditVerse enables robust in-context learning and natural cross-modal knowledge transfer inside one model. The approach supports flexible inputs and outputs of arbitrary resolutions and durations. Training combines a newly curated set of 232K video editing samples with large-scale image and video data. Experiments show the resulting model reaches state-of-the-art performance on both image and video editing and generation tasks while displaying emergent cross-modal capabilities.

What carries the argument

Unified token sequence representation of text, images, and video combined with self-attention to support in-context learning and cross-modal transfer.

If this is right

  • The same model can accept and produce outputs at any resolution or duration without architectural changes.
  • Editing instructions given in context transfer naturally from image examples to video outputs and vice versa.
  • Joint training on image and video data improves performance on both modalities beyond what separate training achieves.
  • A single trained system can replace multiple specialized tools for image generation, video generation, and their editing variants.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Developers could build applications that let users edit both photos and clips with the same interface and model weights.
  • The approach opens a path to test whether longer video sequences or mixed image-video prompts produce even stronger emergent behaviors.
  • If the token unification scales, future models might handle additional modalities such as audio or 3D content under the same mechanism.

Load-bearing premise

That turning every modality into tokens in one shared sequence and letting self-attention handle the rest will produce reliable in-context learning and cross-modal transfer without needing separate architectures or running into data problems.

What would settle it

A head-to-head test in which the unified model shows no improvement over separately trained image-only and video-only models on video editing accuracy or instruction following would disprove the benefit of the shared token sequence.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2509.20360 by Daniil Pakhomov, He Zhang, Nanxuan Zhao, Qiang Xu, Qing Liu, Shaoteng Liu, Soo Ye Kim, Tianyu Wang, Xuan Ju, Yijun Li, Yuanhao Cai, Yuqian Zhou, Zhe Lin, Zhifei Zhang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: The strong video editing performance of EditVerse [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of EditVerse. We design a unified framework for image and video editing and generation, which processes text and vision inputs into a unified sequence. The right part of the figure shows our positional embedding design. This framework leverages full self-attention to facilitate robust in-context learning and effective knowledge transfer among modalities. 3.1 INTERLEAVED TEXT AND VISION INPUT Follo… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Examples for the interleaved text and vision pattern. EditVerse is capable of processing image and video inputs and outputs of arbitrary resolution, duration, and sequential positions. 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Examples from the proposed EditVerseBench. EditVerseBench includes 200 editing pairs, evenly distributed across 20 editing categories as well as horizontal and vertical orientations. 7 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: User study on EditVerseBench. Comparison on EditVerseBench. Since InsV2V (Cheng et al., 2023) and Lucy Edit (Team, 2025) are the only open-source instruction-based video edit￾ing method that exactly matches our setting, we se￾lected two well-known training-free methods, To￾kenFlow (Qu et al., 2025) and STDF (Yatim et al., 2024), as well as a first-frame propagation method, Senorita-2M (Zi et al., 2025), fo… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of EditVerse and other video editing methods. EditVerse shows stronger context preservation and edit faithfulness. Complete comparisons are in the Appendix. Method ViCLIPdir ↑ ViCLIPout ↑ Tune-A-Video (Wu et al., 2023a) 0.131 0.242 TokenFlow (Qu et al., 2025) 0.128 0.237 STDF (Yatim et al., 2024) 0.093 0.227 Fairy (Wu et al., 2024) 0.140 0.197 InsV2V (Cheng et al., 2023) 0.174 0.236 SDEdit (M… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Compare EditVerse generated results with ground truth. Results show EditVerse can surpass ground-truth data quality by extracting knowledge from image and video generation data. 9 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Visualization of ablation on training data. Image data plays a critical role. Training Datasets VLM evaluation Video Quality Text Alignment Temporal Consistency Image Video Gen Video Edit Editing Quality Frame Video Pick Score CLIP DINO ✓ ✓ ✗ 3.62 18.64 22.31 20.44 93.48 90.27 ✗ ✗ ✓ 5.76 19.41 25.22 22.37 98.26 97.83 ✓ ✗ ✓ 6.52 19.81 25.78 22.63 98.24 97.97 ✗ ✓ ✓ 6.40 19.72 25.37 22.51 98.77 98.60 ✓ ✓ ✓ 6.… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Failure case examples of EditVerse. (a) The model fails to add object (treasure chest) at the correct position (at the man’s feet). (b) Generation of blurry artifacts within the edited region. Computational Cost. Our reliance on a full self-attention mechanism across a unified one￾dimensional token sequence, while powerful for in-context learning, leads to significant compu￾tational overhead. The concatena… view at source ↗
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Recent advances in foundation models highlight a clear trend toward unification and scaling, showing emergent capabilities across diverse domains. While image generation and editing have rapidly transitioned from task-specific to unified frameworks, video generation and editing remain fragmented due to architectural limitations and data scarcity. In this work, we introduce EditVerse, a unified framework for image and video generation and editing within a single model. By representing all modalities, i.e., text, image, and video, as a unified token sequence, EditVerse leverages self-attention to achieve robust in-context learning, natural cross-modal knowledge transfer, and flexible handling of inputs and outputs with arbitrary resolutions and durations. To address the lack of video editing training data, we design a scalable data pipeline that curates 232K video editing samples and combines them with large-scale image and video datasets for joint training. Furthermore, we present EditVerseBench, the first benchmark for instruction-based video editing covering diverse tasks and resolutions. Extensive experiments and user studies demonstrate that EditVerse achieves state-of-the-art performance, surpassing existing open-source and commercial models, while exhibiting emergent editing and generation abilities across modalities.

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Referee Report

2 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper introduces EditVerse, a unified framework for image and video generation and editing. All modalities (text, image, video) are represented as a single token sequence processed by self-attention, enabling in-context learning and cross-modal transfer. A scalable pipeline curates 232K video-editing samples for joint training with image/video data; EditVerseBench is introduced as the first instruction-based video editing benchmark. The central claims are SOTA performance over open-source and commercial models plus emergent cross-modal editing/generation abilities.

Significance. If the empirical results and cross-modal transfer are robustly verified, the work would advance unification of vision foundation models by showing that a single self-attention transformer over mixed tokens can handle arbitrary-resolution image and video tasks without modality-specific architectures, while addressing video data scarcity through curated training data.

major comments (2)
  1. Abstract: the SOTA and emergent-ability claims are stated without any quantitative metrics, ablation details, error bars, or data-exclusion criteria, which are load-bearing for verifying that the model surpasses existing open-source and commercial baselines.
  2. Data curation and joint-training description (around the 232K video samples): the claim of natural cross-modal knowledge transfer via unified tokens and self-attention lacks supporting controls such as modality-ablated runs or attention-map analysis; without these it remains unclear whether video performance gains arise from genuine transfer or simply from extra capacity and the larger image corpus.
minor comments (1)
  1. Clarify the exact tokenization scheme and positional encoding used for variable-duration videos and arbitrary resolutions to ensure reproducibility of the unified sequence handling.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the detailed and constructive review. We address each major comment below and indicate planned revisions to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: Abstract: the SOTA and emergent-ability claims are stated without any quantitative metrics, ablation details, error bars, or data-exclusion criteria, which are load-bearing for verifying that the model surpasses existing open-source and commercial baselines.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would be strengthened by including representative quantitative results. In the revised manuscript we will update the abstract to report key metrics from EditVerseBench (e.g., average gains over open-source and commercial baselines) together with explicit pointers to the full tables, ablations, error bars, and data-exclusion criteria already present in Sections 4 and 5. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Data curation and joint-training description (around the 232K video samples): the claim of natural cross-modal knowledge transfer via unified tokens and self-attention lacks supporting controls such as modality-ablated runs or attention-map analysis; without these it remains unclear whether video performance gains arise from genuine transfer or simply from extra capacity and the larger image corpus.

    Authors: We acknowledge that additional controls would provide stronger isolation of cross-modal transfer effects. Our current evidence rests on the observed emergent cross-modal editing/generation capabilities and the performance lift on video tasks when the model is trained jointly versus video-only. In the revision we will add attention-map visualizations to illustrate cross-modal attention patterns and expand the discussion of the unified token/self-attention design. Full modality-ablated training runs are not feasible given compute limits; we will therefore add an explicit limitations paragraph noting this constraint while clarifying why the architecture and in-context learning setup support transfer. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity; claims rest on empirical training, data curation, and external benchmarks

full rationale

The paper presents EditVerse as an architectural choice (unified token sequence + self-attention over mixed modalities) together with an independent data-curation pipeline that produces 232K video-editing samples. These are then used for joint training whose outputs are measured on the newly introduced EditVerseBench and via user studies against external open-source and commercial baselines. No derivation chain, equation, or fitted parameter is shown to reduce by construction to its own inputs; the central performance and emergence claims are therefore falsifiable against held-out data and do not rely on self-citation load-bearing or self-definitional loops.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

1 free parameters · 1 axioms · 0 invented entities

The framework rests on the standard transformer assumption that self-attention over mixed-modality tokens suffices for cross-modal transfer; the main added element is the engineering effort to curate video editing data rather than new mathematical axioms or invented physical entities.

free parameters (1)
  • tokenization and resolution handling parameters
    Arbitrary resolutions and durations are handled via the unified sequence; exact tokenization rules and padding strategies are not detailed in the abstract.
axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Self-attention on a unified token sequence enables robust in-context learning and natural cross-modal knowledge transfer.
    Stated directly in the abstract as the mechanism for unification.

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