# ComfyGPT: A Self-Optimizing Multi-Agent System for Comprehensive ComfyUI Workflow Generation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17671 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.17671/

## Key facts

- Cited by 14 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Software engineering coding agents, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 65 of its 78 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Mar 2025.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [Software engineering coding agents](https://mlsanity.com/agents/software-engineering-coding-agents/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 65)

- [Language Models are Few-Shot Learners](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2005.14165/) (2020)
- [High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10752/) (2021)
- [Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.02155/) (2022)
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- [DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.03300/) (2024)
- [Sentence-BERT: Sentence Embeddings using Siamese BERT-Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.10084/) (2019)
- [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)
- [DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2501.12948/) (2025)
- [Adding Conditional Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.05543/) (2023)
- [PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.02311/) (2022)
- [Qwen2.5 Technical Report](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.15115/) (2024)
- [You Only Look Once: Unified, Real-Time Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1506.02640/) (2015)
- [Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.12092/) (2021)
- [GLIDE: Towards Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing with Text-Guided Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.10741/) (2021)
- [OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2205.01068/) (2022)
- [Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.05499/) (2023)
- [Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.07682/) (2022)
- [Improving Factuality and Reasoning in Language Models through Multiagent Debate](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14325/) (2023)
- [IP-Adapter: Text Compatible Image Prompt Adapter for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.06721/) (2023)
- [AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.04725/) (2023)
- [T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.08453/) (2023)
- [Scaling Autoregressive Models for Content-Rich Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2206.10789/) (2022)
- [HuggingGPT: Solving AI Tasks with ChatGPT and its Friends in Hugging Face](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.17580/) (2023)
- [ChatGLM: A Family of Large Language Models from GLM-130B to GLM-4 All Tools](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.12793/) (2024)
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- [GLIGEN: Open-Set Grounded Text-to-Image Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2301.07093/) (2023)
- [Generative Adversarial Text to Image Synthesis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1605.05396/) (2016)

## Built on by (most cited first, 14 of 14)

- [ComfyUI-R1: Exploring Reasoning Models for Workflow Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.09790/) (2025)
- [COMFYCLAW: Self-Evolving Skill Harnesses for Image Generation Workflows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.01709/) (2026)
- [ComfySearch: Autonomous Exploration and Reasoning for ComfyUI Workflows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.04060/) (2026)
- [VisionCreator: A Native Visual-Generation Agentic Model with Understanding, Thinking, Planning and Creation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.02681/) (2026)
- [SymbOmni: Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.12042/) (2026)
- [Knowledge-Centric Agents for Workflow Generation in ComfyUI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.15845/) (2026)
- [OmniHarness: Harnessing Generalizable Visual Generation via Symbolic Policy Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.16057/) (2026)
- [Policy Optimized Text-to-Image Pipeline Design](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.21478/) (2025)
- [VisionCreator-R1: A Reflection-Enhanced Native Visual-Generation Agentic Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.08812/) (2026)
- [JarvisHub: An Open Harness for Canvas-Native Multimodal Creative Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.23588/) (2026)
- [Agentic Visual Generation: From Generative Models to Agentic Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.06758/) (2026)
- [Hierarchical Adaptive Consensus Network: A Dynamic Framework for Scalable Consensus in Collaborative Multi-Agent AI Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.17586/) (2025)
- [GLEaN: A Text-to-image Bias Detection Approach for Public Comprehension](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2604.09923/) (2026)
- [TemplateCraft: Agentic Visual Template Generation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2609.31451/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

ComfyUI is a popular workflow-based interface that allows users to customize image generation tasks through an intuitive node-based system. However, the complexity of managing node connections and diverse modules can be challenging for users. In this paper, we introduce ComfyGPT, a self-optimizing multi-agent system designed to generate ComfyUI workflows based on task descriptions automatically. The key innovations of ComfyGPT include: (1) consisting of four specialized agents to build a multi-agent workflow generation system: ReformatAgent, FlowAgent, RefineAgent, and ExecuteAgent; (2) focusing on generating precise node connections instead of entire workflows, improving generation accuracy; and (3) enhancing workflow generation through reinforcement learning. Moreover, we introduce FlowDataset, a large-scale dataset containing 13,571 workflow-description pairs, and FlowBench, a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating workflow generation systems. Additionally, we propose four novel evaluation metrics: Format Validation (FV), Pass Accuracy (PA), Pass Instruct Alignment (PIA), and Pass Node Diversity (PND). Experimental results demonstrate that ComfyGPT significantly outperforms existing LLM-based methods in workflow generation, making it a significant step forward in this field. Code is avaliable at https://github.com/comfygpt/comfygpt.