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GoodDrag: Towards Good Practices for Drag Editing with Diffusion Models

arXiv 2404.07206 ↗First posted 10 Apr 2024cs.CV cs.AI cs.GRcited by 34

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

Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we introduce GoodDrag, a novel approach to improve the stability and image quality of drag editing. Unlike existing methods that struggle with accumulated perturbations and often result in distortions, GoodDrag introduces an AlDD framework that alternates between drag and denoising operations within the diffusion process, effectively improving the fidelity of the result. We also propose an information-preserving motion supervision operation that maintains the original features of the starting point for precise manipulation and artifact reduction. In addition, we contribute to the benchmarking of drag editing by introducing a new dataset, Drag100, and developing dedicated quality assessment metrics, Dragging Accuracy Index and Gemini Score, utilizing Large Multimodal Models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed GoodDrag compares favorably against the state-of-the-art approaches both qualitatively and quantitatively. The project page is https://gooddrag.github.io.

Key facts. Cited by 34 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 47 of its 65 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 10 Apr 2024.

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  2. 2023The Blessing of Randomness: SDE Beats ODE in General Diffusion-based Image Editing2 Nov
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  9. 2021GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models20 Dec
  10. 2021Palette: Image-to-Image Diffusion Models10 Nov

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Citing papers per year: 2024: 8; 2025: 16; 2026: 10.

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  1. 2024SG-I2V: Self-Guided Trajectory Control in Image-to-Video Generationcited by 68
  2. 2024InstantDrag: Improving Interactivity in Drag-based Image Editingcited by 31
  3. 2025DragFlow: Unleashing DiT Priors with Region Based Supervision for Drag Editingcited by 29
  4. 2024FastDrag: Manipulate Anything in One Stepcited by 21
  5. 2024DragText: Rethinking Text Embedding in Point-based Image Editingcited by 13
  6. 2024CLIPDrag: Combining Text-based and Drag-based Instructions for Image Editingcited by 13
  7. 2024MvDrag3D: Drag-based Creative 3D Editing via Multi-view Generation-Reconstruction Priorscited by 13
  8. 2024Latent-Reframe: Enabling Camera Control for Video Diffusion Model without Trainingcited by 13
  9. 2025DragLoRA: Online Optimization of LoRA Adapters for Drag-based Image Editing in Diffusion Modelcited by 9
  10. 2024Localize, Understand, Collaborate: Semantic-Aware Dragging via Intention Reasonercited by 8
  11. 2025FlowDrag: 3D-aware Drag-based Image Editing with Mesh-guided Deformation Vector Flow Fieldscited by 8
  12. 2025DragNeXt: Rethinking Drag-Based Image Editingcited by 6
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  1. 2025ARAP-GS: Drag-driven As-Rigid-As-Possible 3D Gaussian Splatting Editing with Diffusion Priorcited by 5
  2. 2025Dragging with Geometry: From Pixels to Geometry-Guided Image Editingcited by 5
  3. 2025Streaming Drag-Oriented Interactive Video Manipulation: Drag Anything, Anytime!cited by 5
  4. 2025MIND-Edit: MLLM Insight-Driven Editing via Language-Vision Projectioncited by 4
  5. 2025LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondencecited by 4
  6. 2025Generative Blocks World: Moving Things Around in Picturescited by 2
  7. 2025GeoDiffusion: A Training-Free Framework for Accurate 3D Geometric Conditioning in Image Generationcited by 2
  8. 2025AttentionDrag: Exploiting Latent Correlation Knowledge in Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Image Editingcited by 1
  9. 2025TDEdit: A Unified Diffusion Framework for Text-Drag Guided Image Manipulationcited by 1
  10. 2025DirectDrag: High-Fidelity, Mask-Free, Prompt-Free Drag-based Image Editing via Readout-Guided Feature Alignmentcited by 1
  11. 2025ContextDrag: Precise Drag-Based Image Editing via Context-Preserving Token Injection and Position-Aligned Attentioncited by 1
  12. 2025RealDrag: The First Dragging Benchmark with Real Target Imagecited by 1
  13. 2026Geometric Image Editing via Effects-Sensitive In-Context Inpainting with Diffusion Transformerscited by 1
  14. 2026TrajLoom: Dense Future Trajectory Generation from Videocited by 1
  15. 2026PhyEdit: Towards Real-World Object Manipulation via Physically-Grounded Image Editingcited by 1
  16. 2026DynaDrag: Dynamic Drag-Style Image Editing by Motion Predictioncited by 0
  17. 2026Drag within Prior Distribution: Text-Conditioned Point-Based Image Editing within Distribution Constraintscited by 0
  18. 2026Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editingcited by 0
  19. 2026Thinking in Boxes: 3D Editing in Real Images Made Easycited by 0
  20. 2026In-context Region-based Drag: Drag Any Region to Any Shapecited by 0
  21. 2026Drag as Evidence: Motion-Grounded Latent Recomposition for Drag-Based Editingcited by 0
  22. 2026ThinkDrag: Semantic Drag-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoningcited by 0

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  1. 2024StableDrag: Stable Dragging for Point-based Image Editing
  2. 2024AdaptiveDrag: Semantic-Driven Dragging on Diffusion-Based Image Editing
  3. 2026Reproducing DragDiffusion: Interactive Point-Based Editing with Diffusion Models
  4. 2024RegionDrag: Fast Region-Based Image Editing with Diffusion Models
  5. 2024LightningDrag: Lightning Fast and Accurate Drag-based Image Editing Emerging from Videos
  6. 2023DragVideo: Interactive Drag-style Video Editing
  7. 2024Diffusion Model-Based Image Editing: A Survey
  8. 2024DiffUHaul: A Training-Free Method for Object Dragging in Images