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FlowEdit: Inversion-Free Text-Based Editing Using Pre-Trained Flow Models

arXiv 2412.08629 ↗First posted 11 Dec 2024cs.CV cs.LGcited by 214

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Abstract (arXiv)

Editing real images using a pre-trained text-to-image (T2I) diffusion/flow model often involves inverting the image into its corresponding noise map. However, inversion by itself is typically insufficient for obtaining satisfactory results, and therefore many methods additionally intervene in the sampling process. Such methods achieve improved results but are not seamlessly transferable between model architectures. Here, we introduce FlowEdit, a text-based editing method for pre-trained T2I flow models, which is inversion-free, optimization-free and model agnostic. Our method constructs an ODE that directly maps between the source and target distributions (corresponding to the source and target text prompts) and achieves a lower transport cost than the inversion approach. This leads to state-of-the-art results, as we illustrate with Stable Diffusion 3 and FLUX. Code and examples are available on the project's webpage.

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  12. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,409
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  1. 2021SDEdit: Guided Image Synthesis and Editing with Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 1,903
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  11. 2023FateZero: Fusing Attentions for Zero-shot Text-based Video Editingcited by 462
  12. 2022Diffusion Models already have a Semantic Latent Spacecited by 324
  13. 2023DreamSim: Learning New Dimensions of Human Visual Similarity using Synthetic Datacited by 322
  14. 2022EDICT: Exact Diffusion Inversion via Coupled Transformationscited by 256
  15. 2023An Edit Friendly DDPM Noise Space: Inversion and Manipulationscited by 243
  16. 2024Taming Rectified Flow for Inversion and Editingcited by 200
  17. 2023Negative-prompt Inversion: Fast Image Inversion for Editing with Text-guided Diffusion Modelscited by 172
  18. 2022Generative Modelling With Inverse Heat Dissipationcited by 164
  19. 2024Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equationscited by 162
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  25. 2024TurboEdit: Text-Based Image Editing Using Few-Step Diffusion Modelscited by 64
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  27. 2024Zero-Shot Unsupervised and Text-Based Audio Editing Using DDPM Inversioncited by 58
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  30. 2023Posterior Distillation Samplingcited by 45
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  1. 2025In-Context Edit: Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformercited by 199
  2. 2025PixelDiT: Pixel Diffusion Transformers for Image Generationcited by 75
  3. 2025Pico-Banana-400K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editingcited by 58
  4. 2025ACE-Step: A Step Towards Music Generation Foundation Modelcited by 54
  5. 2025KV-Edit: Training-Free Image Editing for Precise Background Preservationcited by 47
  6. 2025EEdit: Rethinking the Spatial and Temporal Redundancy for Efficient Image Editingcited by 45
  7. 2025UniEdit-Flow: Unleashing Inversion and Editing in the Era of Flow Modelscited by 38
  8. 2025Reangle-A-Video: 4D Video Generation as Video-to-Video Translationcited by 35
  9. 2025In-Context Learning with Unpaired Clips for Instruction-based Video Editingcited by 34
  10. 2025FlowAlign: Trajectory-Regularized, Inversion-Free Flow-based Image Editingcited by 31
  11. 2025NANO3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Maskscited by 29
  12. 2025Follow-Your-Shape: Shape-Aware Image Editing via Trajectory-Guided Region Controlcited by 27
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  1. 2025FlowDirector: Training-Free Flow Steering for Precise Text-to-Video Editingcited by 24
  2. 2025DNAEdit: Direct Noise Alignment for Text-Guided Rectified Flow Editingcited by 22
  3. 2025Region-Constraint In-Context Generation for Instructional Video Editingcited by 22
  4. 2025Aligning Text to Image in Diffusion Models is Easier Than You Thinkcited by 21
  5. 2025HiFlow: Training-free High-Resolution Image Generation with Flow-Aligned Guidancecited by 21
  6. 2025EditP23: 3D Editing via Propagation of Image Prompts to Multi-Viewcited by 19
  7. 2025Multi-turn Consistent Image Editingcited by 17
  8. 2026ChordEdit: One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editingcited by 17
  9. 2026D-OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Continuously Tuning Step-Distilled Diffusion Modelscited by 17
  10. 2025Skyfall-GS: Synthesizing Immersive 3D Urban Scenes from Satellite Imagerycited by 16
  11. 2025FiVE: A Fine-grained Video Editing Benchmark for Evaluating Emerging Diffusion and Rectified Flow Modelscited by 15
  12. 2025ReFlex: Text-Guided Editing of Real Images in Rectified Flow via Mid-Step Feature Extraction and Attention Adaptationcited by 15
  13. 2025SplitFlow: Flow Decomposition for Inversion-Free Text-to-Image Editingcited by 15
  14. 2025Minimalist Concept Erasure in Generative Modelscited by 13
  15. 2025EditMGT: Unleashing Potentials of Masked Generative Transformers in Image Editingcited by 12
  16. 2025EasyV2V: A High-quality Instruction-based Video Editing Frameworkcited by 11
  17. 2025DynVFX: Augmenting Real Videos with Dynamic Contentcited by 9
  18. 2025Group Relative Attention Guidance for Image Editingcited by 8
  19. 2025FIA-Edit: Frequency-Interactive Attention for Efficient and High-Fidelity Inversion-Free Text-Guided Image Editingcited by 8
  20. 2025AnchorFlow: Training-Free 3D Editing via Latent Anchor-Aligned Flowscited by 8
  21. 2025MultiBanana: A Challenging Benchmark for Multi-Reference Text-to-Image Generationcited by 8
  22. 2025Zero-Shot Dynamic Concept Personalization with Grid-Based LoRAcited by 7
  23. 2025UniEdit-I: Training-free Image Editing for Unified VLM via Iterative Understanding, Editing and Verifyingcited by 7
  24. 2026From Scale to Speed: Adaptive Test-Time Scaling for Image Editingcited by 7
  25. 2025Training-Free Multi-Style Fusion Through Reference-Based Adaptive Modulationcited by 6
  26. 2025Exploring Cross-Modal Flows for Few-Shot Learningcited by 6
  27. 2025ConsistEdit: Highly Consistent and Precise Training-free Visual Editingcited by 6
  28. 2026Dual-Channel Attention Guidance for Training-Free Image Editing Control in Diffusion Transformerscited by 6
  29. 2026Stream3D: Sequential Multi-View 3D Generation via Evidential Memorycited by 6
  30. 2025Optimal Transport for Rectified Flow Image Editing: Unifying Inversion-Based and Direct Methodscited by 5
  31. 2025Training-Free Text-Guided Color Editing with Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformercited by 5
  32. 2025Taming Flow-based I2V Models for Creative Video Editingcited by 5
  33. 2025ManipShield: A Unified Framework for Image Manipulation Detection, Localization and Explanationcited by 5
  34. 2025FlowPortal: Residual-Corrected Flow for Training-Free Video Relighting and Background Replacementcited by 5
  35. 2025OmniRefiner: Reinforcement-Guided Local Diffusion Refinementcited by 5
  36. 2026Continuous Control of Editing Models via Adaptive-Origin Guidancecited by 5
  37. 2025EditCLIP: Representation Learning for Image Editingcited by 4
  38. 2025Delta Rectified Flow Sampling for Text-to-Image Editingcited by 4

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