The paper investigates Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) in Text-and-Image-to-Image (TI2I) flow matching for controllable image editing. It finds that CFG can be implicitly harmful during the noisy phase of flow modeling, reducing instruction following and controllability. The authors propose a simple early-flow correction that improves the alignment‑preservation tradeoff without additional cost, and validate the method on both pixel‑space and latent TI2I flows.
Despite remarkable progress in text-guided image editing, generative models frequently fail to preserve visual object consistency, defined as the preservation of a subject's key attributes throughout the editing process. We address this limitation through three contributions.
This survey reviews 490 papers on text‑to‑image synthesis (T2I) over the past decade, covering key model families such as GANs, autoregressive models, and diffusion models. It organizes recent research by problem areas—controllability, personalization, editing, preference alignment, efficiency, safety, and spatial consistency—rather than strictly chronologically. The paper also examines unified multimodal models, datasets, evaluation metrics, and discusses applications, challenges, and future research directions in T2I.
arXiv:2509. 24223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Editing the content of an image with a pretrained text-to-image model remains challenging.
arXiv:2604. 27147v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In generative modeling, we often wish to produce samples that maximize a user-specified reward such as aesthetic quality or alignment with human preferences, a problem known as \textit{guidance}.
arXiv:2606. 27377v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern image generation demands a single model that unifies diverse capabilities, including text-to-image (T2I), local editing, and global editing.
arXiv:2601. 19180v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inversion-free image editing using flow-based generative models challenges the prevailing inversion-based pipelines.
The paper introduces continuous adversarial flow models, a continuous-time flow framework trained with an adversarial objective that replaces the fixed mean-squared-error criterion of flow matching. By incorporating a learned discriminator, the method guides training toward a different generalized distribution, yielding samples more closely aligned with the target data distribution. Applied as a post‑training step, it markedly improves ImageNet 256px generation metrics—reducing the guidance‑free FID of latent‑space SiT from 8.26 to 3.63 and of pixel‑space JiT from 7.17 to 3.57—and also enhances guided generation and text‑to‑image benchmarks.
Semantically Aligned Gradient-Driven Context-Preserving Image Editing (IABEdit) is a model‑agnostic framework that embeds differentiable semantic verification into the training of generative image editors. By using a frozen vision‑language model to extract spatially‑aware descriptors from ground‑truth edits and a trainable aligner to reproduce them from generated outputs, the residual becomes a gradient that teaches the generator both what to edit and where, without adding inference‑time VLM cost. IABEdit is compatible with various backbones (e.g., U‑Net in Stable Diffusion and MMDiT in FLUX) and improves structural fidelity on MagicBrush, achieves state‑of‑the‑art instruction adherence on RealEdit and EMU Edit, and outperforms the proprietary Gemini agent on the D‑LORD surveillance benchmark under heavy occlusion. "whyItMatters":"IABEdit demonstrates that incorporating semantic verification during training can produce more accurate, well‑localized edits and outperform existing methods even in challenging surveillance scenarios, as shown by its superior metrics and human/GPT‑4o evaluations."
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...
arXiv:2602. 05951v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Flow matching has recently emerged as a promising alternative to diffusion-based generative models, particularly for text-to-image generation.
Diffusion and flow matching models have made significant progress in text-to-image generation, yet high computation, quadratic complexity, and large memory footprint hinder high-resolution synthesis and edge deployment. We propose Nexus, which integrates sparse architecture, linear complexity, and low-bit quantization.
arXiv:2605. 09233v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in visual generative models have enabled high-fidelity image editing guided by human instructions.