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arxiv: 2606.05071 · v1 · pith:KVWDJ4H7new · submitted 2026-06-03 · 💻 cs.CV

InstantRetouch: Efficient and High-Fidelity Instruction-Guided Image Retouching with Bilateral Space

Jiarui Wu , Yujin Wang , Ruikang Li , Fan Zhang , Mingde Yao , Tianfan Xue This is my paper

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keywords image retouchingbilateral gridinstruction followingdiffusion distillationaffine transformscontent fidelityvariational score distillation
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A bilateral grid of affine transforms enables efficient, high-fidelity instruction-guided image retouching.

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

The paper aims to create a retouching method that follows language instructions to adjust colors and tones in photos without changing their geometry or texture. It addresses problems in diffusion models like content drift and slow processing by instead predicting a compact bilateral grid that applies affine transforms to the image. This approach maintains pixel-level accuracy while incorporating generative knowledge from a diffusion model through distillation. The result is faster edits that look natural and stay true to the original image content.

Core claim

By predicting a low-resolution bilateral grid of affine transforms that are sliced with a learned guidance map and applied to the full image, combined with distilling diffusion priors via Variational Score Distillation and a prompt alignment loss, the method achieves instruction-guided retouching that is both efficient and faithful to the input.

What carries the argument

low-resolution bilateral grid of affine transforms sliced using a learned guidance map

If this is right

  • Retouching becomes faster by avoiding iterative sampling steps of diffusion models.
  • Content drift is reduced because edits are applied directly via affine transforms on the original pixels.
  • High fidelity is preserved since the grid operates without altering geometry or texture.
  • Instruction following improves through the added prompt alignment loss in distillation.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The compact grid representation could support real-time retouching on resource-limited devices.
  • Similar distillation into bilateral space might apply to other pixel-precise editing tasks such as local tone mapping.
  • Combining the grid with additional spatial controls could allow more complex instruction-based edits without increasing compute.

Load-bearing premise

Distilling a multi-step diffusion model into the bilateral-grid framework via Variational Score Distillation plus prompt alignment loss transfers strong generative priors while preserving pixel-level fidelity and preventing content drift.

What would settle it

Run the method on images with fine details and check if the output exactly matches the input except for the specified color or tone changes, or measure latency and drift against diffusion baselines on the new benchmark.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.05071 by Fan Zhang, Jiarui Wu, Mingde Yao, Ruikang Li, Tianfan Xue, Yujin Wang.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparing our method with state-of-the-art image editing methods [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Our framework distills a multi-step diffusion teacher into a fast, one-step generator composed of two synergistic branches. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Visual comparisons of different image editing methods on our iRetouch benchmark. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Results of identity preservation comparison on the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Visualization of ablation study on the loss configuration [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗
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Language-guided photo retouching aims to adjust color and tone while preserving geometry and texture. Recently, diffusion-based retouching shows a superior visual quality, but often struggles with both fidelity issues due to its generative nature and efficiency because of its iterative sampling process. In this work, we propose an efficient and fidelity-preserving retouching method using bilateral space manipulation, which is both compact and content-decoupled. Specifically, instead of directly editing pixels or image latents, our model predicts a low-resolution bilateral grid of affine transforms, which are sliced using a learned guidance map and then applied to the full-resolution image. This approach yields both high fidelity and improved efficiency. To retain strong priors of a pretrained generative model, we distill a multi-step diffusion model into our bilateral grid framework using Variational Score Distillation, complemented by a prompt alignment loss to guide instruction-following behavior. Additionally, we introduce a new benchmark and evaluate our method across multiple dimensions: fidelity, instruction following, and efficiency. Compared to the latest retouch methods, like Gemini-2.5-Flash (Nano-Banana), our method can avoid content drift, significantly improve latency, and generate visually pleasing edits, while maintaining a high level of fidelity. Project page: https://openimaginglab.github.io/InstantRetouch/.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes InstantRetouch, a method for language-guided photo retouching that predicts a low-resolution bilateral grid of affine transforms (sliced via a learned guidance map) rather than editing pixels or latents directly. It distills a multi-step diffusion model into this bilateral-grid framework via Variational Score Distillation supplemented by a prompt alignment loss, introduces a new benchmark, and claims superior results versus recent methods including Gemini-2.5-Flash on fidelity, instruction following, latency, and avoidance of content drift while preserving geometry and texture.

Significance. If the empirical claims are substantiated, the bilateral-space formulation could supply a practical efficiency-fidelity trade-off for instruction-driven retouching by decoupling content via the grid structure while transferring generative priors through distillation; this would be relevant for real-time editing pipelines.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claims of avoiding content drift, significantly improved latency, and maintained high fidelity versus Gemini-2.5-Flash are stated without any quantitative metrics, error bars, ablation tables, or benchmark details; this absence prevents verification that the reported gains are not reducible to the choice of distillation loss or backbone.
  2. [Method (distillation paragraph)] The central technical assumption (that VSD plus prompt alignment loss into low-resolution bilateral affine transforms will reproduce diffusion priors while enforcing strict pixel-level fidelity and blocking content drift) lacks a supporting analysis or bound; the bilateral construction is described as content-decoupled but no derivation shows that upsampled affine slices remain below perceptual drift thresholds once the optimization-based VSD gradients are applied.
  3. [Experiments] The new benchmark is introduced and used to evaluate fidelity, instruction following, and efficiency, yet no description of its construction, size, diversity, or comparison to existing datasets is supplied, making it impossible to judge whether the cross-method superiority claims are load-bearing or circular.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract/Method] The abstract and method description would benefit from an explicit equation or diagram showing how the sliced affine transforms are upsampled and applied to the full-resolution input.
  2. [Method] Notation for the bilateral grid, guidance map, and affine parameters should be introduced consistently with a single table or figure to avoid ambiguity when reading the distillation objective.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

3 responses · 1 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. We address each major comment below and note revisions where the manuscript will be updated to improve clarity and substantiation.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the headline claims of avoiding content drift, significantly improved latency, and maintained high fidelity versus Gemini-2.5-Flash are stated without any quantitative metrics, error bars, ablation tables, or benchmark details; this absence prevents verification that the reported gains are not reducible to the choice of distillation loss or backbone.

    Authors: We agree the abstract would be strengthened by quantitative anchors. In revision we will insert concise metrics (e.g., latency reduction factor and fidelity scores versus Gemini-2.5-Flash) drawn from the experiments section, together with a reference to the benchmark. Full ablation tables comparing distillation losses and backbones already appear in the supplementary material and demonstrate that performance gains arise from the bilateral-grid formulation rather than loss choice alone. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Method (distillation paragraph)] The central technical assumption (that VSD plus prompt alignment loss into low-resolution bilateral affine transforms will reproduce diffusion priors while enforcing strict pixel-level fidelity and blocking content drift) lacks a supporting analysis or bound; the bilateral construction is described as content-decoupled but no derivation shows that upsampled affine slices remain below perceptual drift thresholds once the optimization-based VSD gradients are applied.

    Authors: The bilateral grid is content-decoupled by construction: each low-resolution affine transform is applied only within spatially localized bilateral cells defined by the learned guidance map, thereby preserving geometry and texture. Empirical evidence across the benchmark shows substantially lower content drift than direct latent editing. While a formal perceptual-drift bound is not derived, we will add a paragraph in the method section explaining the locality properties of the slicing operation and include additional qualitative examples that illustrate fidelity preservation under VSD optimization. revision: partial

  3. Referee: [Experiments] The new benchmark is introduced and used to evaluate fidelity, instruction following, and efficiency, yet no description of its construction, size, diversity, or comparison to existing datasets is supplied, making it impossible to judge whether the cross-method superiority claims are load-bearing or circular.

    Authors: We will expand the experiments section with a dedicated subsection describing benchmark construction, including image count, instruction diversity, scene variety, and explicit comparisons to prior retouching datasets. This addition will clarify that the reported superiority is evaluated on a standardized, independently constructed test set rather than a circular one. revision: yes

standing simulated objections not resolved
  • A formal mathematical derivation or bound showing that upsampled affine slices remain below perceptual drift thresholds under optimization-based VSD gradients.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: architecture and distillation are independent of target metrics

full rationale

The paper defines a bilateral-grid affine-transform predictor, trains it by distilling a separate pretrained diffusion model via VSD plus an auxiliary prompt-alignment loss, and evaluates on a newly introduced benchmark. No equation, loss term, or cited result is shown to be defined in terms of the final fidelity or drift metrics; the training objective does not contain the evaluation quantities as inputs, and no self-citation chain is invoked to justify uniqueness or force the architecture. The derivation therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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