arXiv:2608. 09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression.
By Yuhan Li, Fangao Zeng, Sicong Kang, Mengfei Xu, Hao Zhou, Wei Li, Pipei Huang, Bingbing Ni
Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression. We instead take an RL-native perspective: diffusion RL already generates reward-scored finite-step trajectories, whose intermediate states provide a natural source of distillation supervision rather than a disposable byproduct of sampling.
Recent breakthroughs in instruction-based image editing have captured significant attention, as models are now capable of handling real-world editing demands with the practicality required by everyday users. However, editing models trained primarily for single-turn edits often break down in multi-turn editing--the natural interactive setting where a user iteratively refines an image based on the model's own previous outputs.
arXiv:2606. 14792v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RL-based post-training has been widely adopted to enable interleaved visual and textual reasoning in unified multimodal models capable of both text and image generation.
By Yoonjeon Kim, Yuhta Takida, Chieh-Hsin Lai, Eunho Yang, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv:2606. 00931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction-guided image editing is becoming a general interface for visual work, yet existing benchmarks still focus largely on narrow appearance edits and do not fully capture the diversity of real-image tasks in professional workflows.
By Fangzhou Lin, Peiran Li, Lingyu Xu, Wenjing Chen, Qianwen Ge, Shuo Xing, Mingyang Wu, Xiangbo Gao, Siyuan Yang, Kazunori Yamada, Ziming Zhang, Haichong Zhang, Zhen Dong, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Zhengzhong Tu
arXiv:2608. 08491v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models are a bottleneck for reinforcement learning in embodied AI.
By Yidong Wang, Yan Zhan, Ziteng Feng, Zhenyu Cui, Ziyi Zhou, Renzhao Liang, Jiaxuan Zhu, Zilei Yang, Yiran Zhao, Zhongkuan Mao, Bo Jia, Hanchu Ni, Chenggang Xie, Biao Liu, Yi Zhang, Yong Dai, Xiaozhu Ju, Wei Ye, Shikun Zhang
arXiv:2606. 08016v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current image editing software often hinges on fixed filters or expert tuning, leaving a gap between amateur users' intent and outcomes.
By Zichen Zhu, Yuheng Sun, Mingxuan Zhu, Wenjie Ma, Situo Zhang, Zhexiang Wang, Ziyue Yang, Danyang Zhang, Kunyao Lan, Zihan Zhao, Dingye Liu, Siqi Xiang, Lu Chen, Kai Yu
Recent advances in unified multimodal models have significantly improved text-guided image editing abilities. In particular, models such as Nano-Banana-Pro and GPT-Image-2 demonstrate emerging capabilities in multi-source image editing (MIE), including tasks such as object synthesis, person-background composition, and cross-image style fusion.
arXiv:2606. 19103v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in instruction-based image editing have enabled models to perform complex visual edits from natural language instructions.
By Mukund Khanna, Raj Singh Yadav, Kunal Singh
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) drives multimodal reasoning, but answer-level correctness does not guarantee that a vision-language model grounds its predictions in visual evidence. Existing visual-intervention methods contrast policy behavior on original and modified images, yet assign supervision by the type of intervention rather than its observed effect.
arXiv:2606. 17979v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing RL post-training methods for text-to-image generation usually convert the final-image reward into a single scalar advantage and apply it with the same strength to the entire generative trajectory.
By Jinjie Shen, Wei Deng, Xian Hu, Daiguo Zhou, Jian Luan
arXiv:2606. 11209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual question answering increasingly requires multi-step reasoning.
By Jingpei Wu, Xiao Han, Weixiang Shen, Boer Zhang, Zifeng Ding, Volker Tresp