# SeedEdit: Align Image Re-Generation to Image Editing

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06686 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.06686/

## Key facts

- Cited by 61 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 8 of its 15 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Nov 2024.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [Image generation, text-to-image and editing](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/image-generation-text-to-image-and-editing/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 8 of 8)

- [SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.01952/) (2023)
- [Scaling Rectified Flow Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.03206/) (2024)
- [GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10741/) (2021)
- [Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01626/) (2022)
- [MagicBrush: A Manually Annotated Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.10012/) (2023)
- [UltraEdit: Instruction-based Fine-Grained Image Editing at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2407.05282/) (2024)
- [HQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.09990/) (2024)
- [Paint by Inpaint: Learning to Add Image Objects by Removing Them First](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.18212/) (2024)

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 61)

- [Step1X-Edit: A Practical Framework for General Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.17761/) (2025)
- [Seedream 4.0: Toward Next-generation Multimodal Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.20427/) (2025)
- [ImgEdit: A Unified Image Editing Dataset and Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.20275/) (2025)
- [In-Context Edit: Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.20690/) (2025)
- [Seedance 2.0: Advancing Video Generation for World Complexity](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.14148/) (2026)
- [EasyControl: Adding Efficient and Flexible Control for Diffusion Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.07027/) (2025)
- [UniVideo: Unified Understanding, Generation, and Editing for Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.08377/) (2025)
- [GPT-IMAGE-EDIT-1.5M: A Million-Scale, GPT-Generated Image Dataset](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.21033/) (2025)
- [Seedream 2.0: A Native Chinese-English Bilingual Image Generation Foundation Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.07703/) (2025)
- [NextStep-1: Toward Autoregressive Image Generation with Continuous Tokens at Scale](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.10711/) (2025)
- [SeedEdit 3.0: Fast and High-Quality Generative Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.05083/) (2025)
- [UniEdit-Flow: Unleashing Inversion and Editing in the Era of Flow Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13109/) (2025)
- [DreamActor-M1: Holistic, Expressive and Robust Human Image Animation with Hybrid Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.01724/) (2025)
- [Selftok: Discrete Visual Tokens of Autoregression, by Diffusion, and for Reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.07538/) (2025)
- [Does FLUX Already Know How to Perform Physically Plausible Image Composition?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.21278/) (2025)
- [InstructX: Towards Unified Visual Editing with MLLM Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.08485/) (2025)
- [textttComplex-Edit: CoT-Like Instruction Generation for Complexity-Controllable Image Editing Benchmark](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2504.13143/) (2025)
- [ReasonEdit: Towards Reasoning-Enhanced Image Editing Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.22625/) (2025)
- [ByteMorph: Benchmarking Instruction-Guided Image Editing with Non-Rigid Motions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.03107/) (2025)
- [VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.10941/) (2025)
- [DreamPoster: A Unified Framework for Image-Conditioned Generative Poster Design](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.04218/) (2025)
- [VIVA: VLM-Guided Instruction-Based Video Editing with Reward Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.16906/) (2025)
- [TextPecker: Rewarding Structural Anomaly Quantification for Enhancing Visual Text Rendering](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.20903/) (2026)
- [EditMGT: Unleashing Potentials of Masked Generative Transformers in Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.11715/) (2025)
- [X2I: Seamless Integration of Multimodal Understanding into Diffusion Transformer via Attention Distillation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.06134/) (2025)
- [Image Editing As Programs with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.04158/) (2025)
- [GenSpace: Benchmarking Spatially-Aware Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.24870/) (2025)
- [Leveraging Verifier-Based Reinforcement Learning in Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.27505/) (2026)
- [Autoregressive Images Watermarking through Lexical Biasing: An Approach Resistant to Regeneration Attack](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.01011/) (2025)
- [MF-VITON: High-Fidelity Mask-Free Virtual Try-On with Minimal Input](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.08650/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We introduce SeedEdit, a diffusion model that is able to revise a given image with any text prompt. In our perspective, the key to such a task is to obtain an optimal balance between maintaining the original image, i.e. image reconstruction, and generating a new image, i.e. image re-generation. To this end, we start from a weak generator (text-to-image model) that creates diverse pairs between such two directions and gradually align it into a strong image editor that well balances between the two tasks. SeedEdit can achieve more diverse and stable editing capability over prior image editing methods, enabling sequential revision over images generated by diffusion models.