# Dual-Schedule Inversion: Training- and Tuning-Free Inversion for Real Image Editing arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11152 ยท HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.11152/ ## Key facts - Cited by 8 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 50 of its 59 references that are in the map. - First posted on arXiv 15 Dec 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, 30 of 50) - [Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.11239/) (2020) - [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021) - [The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.03924/) (2018) - [Denoising Diffusion Implicit Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.02502/) (2020) - [Deep Unsupervised Learning using Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1503.03585/) (2015) - [Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.06125/) (2022) - [Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.11487/) (2022) - [Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.12598/) (2022) - [BLIP: Bootstrapping Language-Image Pre-training for Unified Vision-Language Understanding and Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.12086/) (2022) - [Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1907.05600/) (2019) - [GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10741/) (2021) - [DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.12242/) (2022) - [InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09800/) (2022) - [Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01626/) (2022) - [CLIPScore: A Reference-free Evaluation Metric for Image Captioning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2104.08718/) (2021) - [An Image is Worth One Word: Personalizing Text-to-Image Generation using Textual Inversion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.01618/) (2022) - [Rethinking the Role of Demonstrations: What Makes In-Context Learning Work?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2202.12837/) (2022) - [Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.10789/) (2022) - [Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.09794/) (2022) - [Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.09276/) (2022) - [Cascaded Diffusion Models for High Fidelity Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.15282/) (2021) - [Multi-Concept Customization of Text-to-Image Diffusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.04488/) (2022) - [Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.12572/) (2022) - [Vector Quantized Diffusion Model for Text-to-Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.14822/) (2021) - [MasaCtrl: Tuning-Free Mutual Self-Attention Control for Consistent Image Synthesis and Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.08465/) (2023) - [DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.11427/) (2022) - [Zero-shot Image-to-Image Translation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.03027/) (2023) - [ELITE: Encoding Visual Concepts into Textual Embeddings for Customized Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.13848/) (2023) - [FastComposer: Tuning-Free Multi-Subject Image Generation with Localized Attention](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.10431/) (2023) - [EDICT: Exact Diffusion Inversion via Coupled Transformations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.12446/) (2022) ## Built on by (most cited first, 8 of 8) - [OmniShow: Unifying Multimodal Conditions for Human-Object Interaction Video Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.11804/) (2026) - [SceneDecorator: Towards Scene-Oriented Story Generation with Scene Planning and Scene Consistency](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.22994/) (2025) - [Skywork UniPic 3.0: Unified Multi-Image Composition via Sequence Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.15664/) (2026) - [HiFi-Inpaint: Towards High-Fidelity Reference-Based Inpainting for Generating Detail-Preserving Human-Product Images](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.02210/) (2026) - [Trade-offs in Image Generation: How Do Different Dimensions Interact?](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.22100/) (2025) - [Semantic Granularity Navigation in Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.21190/) (2026) - [ReconPlusGen: Injecting Reconstruction Prior into Multi-view 3D Generation through Noise Inversion and Modulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.11129/) (2026) - [LAMS-Edit: Latent and Attention Mixing with Schedulers for Improved Content Preservation in Diffusion-Based Image and Style Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.02987/) (2026) ## Abstract (arXiv) Text-conditional image editing is a practical AIGC task that has recently emerged with great commercial and academic value. For real image editing, most diffusion model-based methods use DDIM Inversion as the first stage before editing. However, DDIM Inversion often results in reconstruction failure, leading to unsatisfactory performance for downstream editing. To address this problem, we first analyze why the reconstruction via DDIM Inversion fails. We then propose a new inversion and sampling method named Dual-Schedule Inversion. We also design a classifier to adaptively combine Dual-Schedule Inversion with different editing methods for user-friendly image editing. Our work can achieve superior reconstruction and editing performance with the following advantages: 1) It can reconstruct real images perfectly without fine-tuning, and its reversibility is guaranteed mathematically. 2) The edited object/scene conforms to the semantics of the text prompt. 3) The unedited parts of the object/scene retain the original identity.