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arxiv: 2508.02324 · v1 · submitted 2025-08-04 · 💻 cs.CV

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Qwen-Image Technical Report

Chenfei Wu , Jiahao Li , Jingren Zhou , Junyang Lin , Kaiyuan Gao , Kun Yan , Sheng-ming Yin , Shuai Bai
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Xiao Xu Yilei Chen Yuxiang Chen Zecheng Tang Zekai Zhang Zhengyi Wang An Yang Bowen Yu Chen Cheng Dayiheng Liu Deqing Li Hang Zhang Hao Meng Hu Wei Jingyuan Ni Kai Chen Kuan Cao Liang Peng Lin Qu Minggang Wu Peng Wang Shuting Yu Tingkun Wen Wensen Feng Xiaoxiao Xu Yi Wang Yichang Zhang Yongqiang Zhu Yujia Wu Yuxuan Cai Zenan Liu
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Qwen-Image uses progressive curriculum training and dual-encoding to advance complex text rendering and consistent image editing.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The authors present Qwen-Image as a model built to render detailed text accurately inside generated images and to edit existing images without unwanted changes. They collect and prepare large amounts of text-rich data, then train the model in stages that start with simple text and move up to full paragraphs. For editing they add a reconstruction task and process each input image in two ways—one path captures semantic meaning while the other preserves visual structure—so the edits stay faithful to both the prompt and the original picture. These choices produce stronger results on benchmarks for both generation and editing, including better handling of Chinese text. A reader would care because spelling words correctly in pictures and making precise edits remain hard problems for most image models.

Core claim

Through a data pipeline for text-rich examples, progressive curriculum training that scales from simple to paragraph-level text, and a dual-encoding approach that separately extracts semantic and reconstructive features from the input image, Qwen-Image improves text rendering in generation and maintains higher consistency during image editing.

What carries the argument

Progressive curriculum training combined with a dual-encoding mechanism that processes the original image once for semantic content and once for reconstructive detail.

Load-bearing premise

The performance gains in text rendering and editing consistency arise chiefly from the progressive curriculum and dual-encoding steps rather than from model scale or base model improvements alone.

What would settle it

An ablation study that trains the model without the progressive stages or without the dual-encoding and then measures the drop on text rendering and editing benchmarks.

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We present Qwen-Image, an image generation foundation model in the Qwen series that achieves significant advances in complex text rendering and precise image editing. To address the challenges of complex text rendering, we design a comprehensive data pipeline that includes large-scale data collection, filtering, annotation, synthesis, and balancing. Moreover, we adopt a progressive training strategy that starts with non-text-to-text rendering, evolves from simple to complex textual inputs, and gradually scales up to paragraph-level descriptions. This curriculum learning approach substantially enhances the model's native text rendering capabilities. As a result, Qwen-Image not only performs exceptionally well in alphabetic languages such as English, but also achieves remarkable progress on more challenging logographic languages like Chinese. To enhance image editing consistency, we introduce an improved multi-task training paradigm that incorporates not only traditional text-to-image (T2I) and text-image-to-image (TI2I) tasks but also image-to-image (I2I) reconstruction, effectively aligning the latent representations between Qwen2.5-VL and MMDiT. Furthermore, we separately feed the original image into Qwen2.5-VL and the VAE encoder to obtain semantic and reconstructive representations, respectively. This dual-encoding mechanism enables the editing module to strike a balance between preserving semantic consistency and maintaining visual fidelity. Qwen-Image achieves state-of-the-art performance, demonstrating its strong capabilities in both image generation and editing across multiple benchmarks.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 1 minor

Summary. The paper presents Qwen-Image, an image generation and editing foundation model in the Qwen series. It describes a data collection/filtering/synthesis pipeline combined with progressive curriculum training (non-text-to-text to paragraph-level) to improve complex text rendering, particularly for logographic languages such as Chinese. For editing consistency it introduces a multi-task setup (T2I, TI2I, and I2I reconstruction) plus a dual-encoding mechanism that routes the input image separately through Qwen2.5-VL (semantic) and a VAE encoder (reconstructive). The abstract asserts that these components yield state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks for both generation and editing.

Significance. If the performance claims and causal attributions hold, the work would supply a concrete, reproducible recipe for curriculum-based text rendering and dual-path latent alignment in diffusion-style models, with particular value for multilingual and text-heavy image tasks. The explicit separation of semantic and reconstructive pathways is a clear design choice that could be adopted more broadly.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and methods description: the central claim that progressive curriculum training and dual-encoding drive SOTA text-rendering and editing gains is unsupported because the manuscript supplies no quantitative benchmark scores, comparison tables, or error metrics. Without these data the attribution cannot be evaluated against simpler scaling baselines.
  2. [Training strategy] Training strategy section: no ablation experiments are reported that isolate the progressive curriculum (non-text-to-text to paragraph-level) or the dual-encoding (Qwen2.5-VL + VAE) from the effects of data volume or the base Qwen2.5-VL model. This omission leaves open the possibility that observed improvements are due to scale rather than the described mechanisms.
  3. [Multi-task training] Multi-task training description: the claim that adding I2I reconstruction aligns latent representations between Qwen2.5-VL and MMDiT is stated without any supporting alignment metrics, reconstruction error curves, or consistency scores on editing benchmarks.
minor comments (1)
  1. The abstract and methods text would benefit from explicit forward references to any tables or figures that contain the benchmark numbers once they are added.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below and have revised the manuscript accordingly to strengthen the presentation of results and supporting evidence.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract and methods description: the central claim that progressive curriculum training and dual-encoding drive SOTA text-rendering and editing gains is unsupported because the manuscript supplies no quantitative benchmark scores, comparison tables, or error metrics. Without these data the attribution cannot be evaluated against simpler scaling baselines.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract would benefit from more explicit quantitative grounding. The experiments section of the manuscript reports results on standard benchmarks including GenEval, DPG-Bench for generation and MagicBrush, Emu Edit for editing tasks. To directly address the concern, we have revised the abstract to reference these evaluations and inserted a new summary comparison table early in the experiments section that lists key metrics against baselines such as SD3 and Flux. This makes the performance claims and their attribution to the proposed methods immediately verifiable. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Training strategy] Training strategy section: no ablation experiments are reported that isolate the progressive curriculum (non-text-to-text to paragraph-level) or the dual-encoding (Qwen2.5-VL + VAE) from the effects of data volume or the base Qwen2.5-VL model. This omission leaves open the possibility that observed improvements are due to scale rather than the described mechanisms.

    Authors: We acknowledge that dedicated ablations would provide stronger causal evidence. The manuscript already includes comparisons against the base Qwen2.5-VL model and qualitative discussion of curriculum stages, but full-scale ablations were omitted due to computational cost. In the revision we have added a new subsection presenting smaller-scale ablation studies on the curriculum progression (non-text-to-text through paragraph-level) and dual-encoding variants, together with additional analysis arguing that the gains exceed what would be expected from data volume or base-model scaling alone. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Multi-task training] Multi-task training description: the claim that adding I2I reconstruction aligns latent representations between Qwen2.5-VL and MMDiT is stated without any supporting alignment metrics, reconstruction error curves, or consistency scores on editing benchmarks.

    Authors: We thank the referee for highlighting this gap. The multi-task setup is described in the methods, but explicit supporting measurements were not reported. We have added reconstruction error curves, latent alignment metrics (cosine similarity between Qwen2.5-VL and MMDiT representations), and editing consistency scores on the relevant benchmarks to the revised multi-task training subsection, directly substantiating the alignment claim. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: empirical training pipeline with no derivations or self-referential reductions

full rationale

The paper describes concrete engineering choices—large-scale data collection/filtering/synthesis, progressive curriculum (non-text-to-text to paragraph-level), multi-task training (T2I + TI2I + I2I reconstruction), and dual-encoding (separate Qwen2.5-VL semantic and VAE paths)—then reports benchmark outcomes. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations appear. Claims rest on external data and observed results rather than tautological reduction to inputs. This is a standard empirical technical report with independent content.

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Abstract provides no explicit free parameters, mathematical axioms, or newly postulated entities; the work relies on standard components (Qwen2.5-VL, MMDiT, VAE) and conventional ML training practices whose details are not enumerated.

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