Unified models trained for both instruction-based image editing and text-to-image generation typically keep source-image conditioning throughout denoising. This study shows that for some edits, source attention naturally decreases during sampling, suggesting that switching to text-to-image conditioning for short intervals can improve edit quality without sacrificing perceptual preservation. Across three editors and four benchmarks, task switching balances quality and preservation, demonstrating that unified editors benefit from using both conditioning modes they are trained for.
By Lidia Troeshestova, Alexander Ustyuzhanin, Sergey Kastryulin
arXiv:2605. 31162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unconditional diffusion models offer powerful generative priors, yet steering them toward aesthetically enhanced outputs remains largely unexplored.
By Shreyansh Modi, Akshat Tomar, Aarush Aggarwal
The paper introduces "overpainting," a localized, context-aware image editing technique that allows users to specify precise or loose editing regions via a trimap. The method adapts a pretrained diffusion model with joint attention and low‑rank adaptation, incorporating attention‑dropout to balance noise, source, and mask inputs. An automated pipeline generates training data by pairing images from language‑based editing models, curating them, and extracting trimaps, enabling the model to perform a wide range of editing tasks.
By Sam Sartor, Iliyan Georgiev, Michael Fischer, Valentin Deschaintre, Pieter Peers
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:2509. 24223v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Editing the content of an image with a pretrained text-to-image model remains challenging.
By Jianxin Zhang, Clayton Scott
arXiv:2607. 19895v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-guided video editing with diffusion models is impractically slow, hindered by costly multi-step sampling and inversion.
By Habin Lim, Gyeong-Moon Park