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LEDITS++: Limitless Image Editing using Text-to-Image Models

arXiv 2311.16711 ↗First posted 28 Nov 2023cs.CV cs.AI cs.HCcited by 147

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Text-to-image diffusion models have recently received increasing interest for their astonishing ability to produce high-fidelity images from solely text inputs. Subsequent research efforts aim to exploit and apply their capabilities to real image editing. However, existing image-to-image methods are often inefficient, imprecise, and of limited versatility. They either require time-consuming finetuning, deviate unnecessarily strongly from the input image, and/or lack support for multiple, simultaneous edits. To address these issues, we introduce LEDITS++, an efficient yet versatile and precise textual image manipulation technique. LEDITS++'s novel inversion approach requires no tuning nor optimization and produces high-fidelity results with a few diffusion steps. Second, our methodology supports multiple simultaneous edits and is architecture-agnostic. Third, we use a novel implicit masking technique that limits changes to relevant image regions. We propose the novel TEdBench++ benchmark as part of our exhaustive evaluation. Our results demonstrate the capabilities of LEDITS++ and its improvements over previous methods.

Key facts. Cited by 147 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 42 of its 52 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 28 Nov 2023.

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  6. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
  7. 2022Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models17 Nov
  8. 2022eDiff-I: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with an Ensemble of Expert Denoisers2 Nov
  9. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance20 Oct
  10. 2022Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models17 Oct
  11. 2022Blended Latent Diffusion6 Jun
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  3. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec

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  1. 2024FlowEdit: Inversion-Free Text-Based Editing Using Pre-Trained Flow Modelscited by 214
  2. 2024Diffusion Model-Based Image Editing: A Surveycited by 212
  3. 2024Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 162
  4. 2024Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editingcited by 111
  5. 2024FireFlow: Fast Inversion of Rectified Flow for Image Semantic Editingcited by 66
  6. 2024Smoothed Energy Guidance: Guiding Diffusion Models with Reduced Energy Curvature of Attentioncited by 55
  7. 2024Diffusion Model-Based Video Editing: A Surveycited by 44
  8. 2024Add-it: Training-Free Object Insertion in Images With Pretrained Diffusion Modelscited by 42
  9. 2024Steering Rectified Flow Models in the Vector Field for Controlled Image Generationcited by 38
  10. 2025UniEdit-Flow: Unleashing Inversion and Editing in the Era of Flow Modelscited by 38
  11. 2024Customizing Text-to-Image Models with a Single Image Paircited by 36
  12. 2023Lightning-Fast Image Inversion and Editing for Text-to-Image Diffusion Modelscited by 34
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  3. 2024MagicQuill: An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing Systemcited by 30
  4. 2024Conditional Image Synthesis with Diffusion Models: A Surveycited by 29
  5. 2024DreamOmni: Unified Image Generation and Editingcited by 29
  6. 2025IMAGHarmony: Controllable Image Editing with Consistent Object Quantity and Layoutcited by 28
  7. 2024PrEditor3D: Fast and Precise 3D Shape Editingcited by 27
  8. 2024TurboEdit: Instant text-based image editingcited by 26
  9. 2025SliderSpace: Decomposing the Visual Capabilities of Diffusion Modelscited by 24
  10. 2025Training-Free Text-Guided Image Editing with Visual Autoregressive Modelcited by 21
  11. 2025Personalized Image Generation with Deep Generative Models: A Decade Surveycited by 20
  12. 2025ByteMorph: Benchmarking Instruction-Guided Image Editing with Non-Rigid Motionscited by 19
  13. 2025h-Edit: Effective and Flexible Diffusion-Based Editing via Doob's h-Transformcited by 18
  14. 2025VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Videocited by 17
  15. 2024Invertible Consistency Distillation for Text-Guided Image Editing in Around 7 Stepscited by 14
  16. 2025VideoHandles: Editing 3D Object Compositions in Videos Using Video Generative Priorscited by 14
  17. 2024Customizing Text-to-Image Diffusion with Object Viewpoint Controlcited by 13
  18. 2024Unleashing In-context Learning of Autoregressive Models for Few-shot Image Manipulationcited by 13
  19. 2024SPAgent: Adaptive Task Decomposition and Model Selection for General Video Generation and Editingcited by 11
  20. 2024Instruction-based Image Manipulation by Watching How Things Movecited by 11
  21. 2025Compass Control: Multi Object Orientation Control for Text-to-Image Generationcited by 11
  22. 2025Hallucination at a Glance: Controlled Visual Edits and Fine-Grained Multimodal Learningcited by 11
  23. 2026PromptRL: Prompt Matters in RL for Flow-Based Image Generationcited by 11
  24. 2024Reference-Based 3D-Aware Image Editing with Triplanescited by 9
  25. 2024Dormant: Defending against Pose-driven Human Image Animationcited by 9
  26. 2024PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editingcited by 9
  27. 2025DreamVE: Unified Instruction-based Image and Video Editingcited by 9
  28. 2025Charts Are Not Images: On the Challenges of Scientific Chart Editingcited by 9
  29. 2024Scaling Concept With Text-Guided Diffusion Modelscited by 8
  30. 2024Dual-Schedule Inversion: Training- and Tuning-Free Inversion for Real Image Editingcited by 8
  31. 2025PairEdit: Learning Semantic Variations for Exemplar-based Image Editingcited by 8
  32. 2025SAEdit: Token-level control for continuous image editing via Sparse AutoEncodercited by 8
  33. 2025Tight Inversion: Image-Conditioned Inversion for Real Image Editingcited by 7
  34. 2025InstantEdit: Text-Guided Few-Step Image Editing with Piecewise Rectified Flowcited by 7
  35. 2025Discrete Noise Inversion for Next-scale Autoregressive Text-based Image Editingcited by 7
  36. 2023Warping the Residuals for Image Editing with StyleGANcited by 6
  37. 2024Learn Once, Edit Anywhere: Visual Direction Transfer for Diffusion Modelscited by 6
  38. 2025TF-TI2I: Training-Free Text-and-Image-to-Image Generation via Multi-Modal Implicit-Context Learning in Text-to-Image Modelscited by 6

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