Replacing an object with one that differs in category or shape requires complete source removal, natural target formation unconstrained by the source silhouette, and preservation of unrelated content. Existing training-free editors either localize edits from terminal predictions under source and target prompts or preserve unrelated content through spatially unselective source-feature reuse without explicit region discovery.
RefineEdit is a training‑free prompt‑to‑prompt image editing framework that uses a Generative Refinement Network to edit images by refining binary image codes. It couples edit localization with content generation, selecting editable positions based on signed probability differences between an editing branch and a source branch, and stabilizes edits with adaptive spatial freezing and finite bit locking. The method requires no additional training, external masks, or attention control, and outperforms other methods on PIE‑Bench in background‑preservation metrics and CLIP scores.
By Yulong Chen, Ziqian Zhang, Haoyu Zhang, Ao He, Senmao Li, Kai Wang
SR-Edit is a new image editing framework that uses iterative self‑refinement to improve fidelity. At each step it extracts precise, self‑consistent region separations from the model’s predictions and then enforces preservation in non‑edit areas with correction updates that stay aligned with the original sampling dynamics. Experiments show that SR‑Edit delivers better preservation and overall image quality than existing editing techniques.
By Andong Wang, Zehua Chen, Yuxuan Jiang, Jun Zhu
arXiv:2607.18227v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: In line with the prevailing direction of vision research, we explore the integration of both generation and editing capabilities for video and imag...
By Dingyun Zhang, Lixue Gong, Wei Liu
arXiv:2606. 13898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Creative image editing tools, such as Photoshop's Remove or Generative Fill buttons, are central to everyday customer use and account for a major share of traffic in Photoshop and Lightroom.
By Haoran You, Yotam Nitzan, Lingzhi Zhang, Yifan Gong, Mang-Tik Chiu, Connelly Barnes, Yan Kang, Yuqian Zhou, Eli Shechtman, Sohrab Amirghodsi
CoinVE-200K is a large, high‑quality dataset for compositional instruction‑guided video editing, featuring 1080p video‑editing pairs up to 201 frames long and containing 2–5 atomic editing operations per sample. The dataset covers diverse editing intents—targeting humans, objects, and backgrounds with addition, removal, modification, and stylization—while ensuring instruction faithfulness, visual quality, temporal consistency, and compositional diversity through a careful generation and filtering pipeline. CoinVE-Bench benchmarks these capabilities, and CoinVE-Edit, a 22B model built on Wan2.1‑T2V‑14B and Qwen3‑VL‑8B‑Instruct, demonstrates strong performance in instruction following, compositional editing accuracy, visual quality, and temporal consistency.
Edit‑VAR is a training‑free, inversion‑free framework that uses a pretrained visual autoregressive video model for text‑guided video editing. It encodes the source video into multi‑scale discrete tokens and applies probability‑guided conditional token replacement, attention‑guided token‑wise and scale‑aware modulation, and scale‑decoupled generation to preserve source appearance while enabling precise edits. The method also includes residual‑guided token pruning to reduce inference cost, and experimental results show it outperforms existing training‑free video editing methods in fidelity, source preservation, temporal coherence, and efficiency.
By Chongbo Zhao, Jiangming Wang, Xilai Wang, Xinyu Wang, Jingyi Tang, Chunjie Hao, Pengjie Song, Yue Ma
The paper introduces RC‑GRPO‑Editing, a region‑constrained Group Relative Policy Optimization framework for flow‑based image editing. It localizes exploration by decoupling initial noise perturbations to reduce background‑induced reward variance and adds an attention concentration reward to keep cross‑attention focused on the intended editing region. Experiments on CompBench demonstrate consistent gains in instruction adherence within the editing region while better preserving non‑target content.
By Zhuohan Ouyang, Zhe Qian, Wenhuo Cui, Chaoqun Wang
arXiv:2608.17566v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The quality and diversity of instruction-based video editing datasets are steadily improving, yet existing datasets mainly focus on single editing...
By Fuchen Long, Cong Wang, Zitao Gao, Wenhao Zhong, Yu Cheng, Xiaolu Hou, Yan Li, Xiao Cao, Xinlong Sun, Xi Chen, Yu Liu
arXiv:2503.09130v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: This paper presents InteractEdit, a novel framework for reference-free Human-Object Interaction (HOI) editing that tackles the challenging ta...
By Jiun Tian Hoe, Weipeng Hu, Wei Zhou, Chao Xie, Ziwei Wang, Xudong Jiang, Yap-Peng Tan, Chee Seng Chan
arXiv:2606. 14125v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inversion-based image editing offers flexible and training-free control but still struggles with inversion accuracy and the trade-off between editing fidelity and background preservation.
By Zheyuan Zhan, Hongchen Li, Can Wang, Yinfei Ma, Mingzhen Huang, Ruoshi Bai, Jiawei Chen, Siwei Lyu, Defang Chen
arXiv:2609.37492v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Instruction-guided image editing should change what the instruction names and leave the rest of the image untouched. In dual classifier-free guidance (...
By Zeyan Li, Wei Zhou, Hadi Amirpour, Minghao Zou, Panqi Yang, Jianfeng Xu