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Multi-turn Consistent Image Editing

arXiv 2505.04320 ↗First posted 7 May 2025cs.CVcited by 18

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Abstract (arXiv)

Many real-world applications, such as interactive photo retouching, artistic content creation, and product design, require flexible and iterative image editing. However, existing image editing methods primarily focus on achieving the desired modifications in a single step, which often struggles with ambiguous user intent, complex transformations, or the need for progressive refinements. As a result, these methods frequently produce inconsistent outcomes or fail to meet user expectations. To address these challenges, we propose a multi-turn image editing framework that enables users to iteratively refine their edits, progressively achieving more satisfactory results. Our approach leverages flow matching for accurate image inversion and a dual-objective Linear Quadratic Regulators (LQR) for stable sampling, effectively mitigating error accumulation. Additionally, by analyzing the layer-wise roles of transformers, we introduce a adaptive attention highlighting method that enhances editability while preserving multi-turn coherence. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework significantly improves edit success rates and visual fidelity compared to existing methods.

Key facts. Cited by 18 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026). Builds on 43 of its 53 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 May 2025.

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  1. 2026Agent Banana: High-Fidelity Image Editing with Agentic Thinking and Toolingcited by 19
  2. 2025DanceEditor: Towards Iterative Editable Music-driven Dance Generation with Open-Vocabulary Descriptionscited by 6
  3. 2025FreqEdit: Preserving High-Frequency Features for Robust Multi-Turn Image Editingcited by 6
  4. 2025Target-aware Image Editing via Cycle-consistent Constraintscited by 3
  5. 2026Why Do DiT Editors Drift? Plug-and-Play Low Frequency Alignment in VAE Latent Spacecited by 3
  6. 2026VDE Bench: Evaluating The Capability of Image Editing Models to Modify Visual Documentscited by 2
  7. 2026AnchorEdit: Maintaining Temporal Consistency in Multi-turn Image Editing via Causal Memorycited by 2
  8. 2026EditVerse3D: High-Quality 3D Object Editing with Region-Aware Learningcited by 1
  9. 2026Cognitive-structured Multimodal Agent for Multimodal Understanding, Generation, and Editingcited by 1
  10. 2026On-Policy Self-Distillation for Multi-Turn Image Editingcited by 1
  11. 2025Inversion-Free Style Transfer with Dual Rectified Flowscited by 0
  12. 2026Sissi: Zero-shot Style-guided Image Synthesis via Semantic-style Integrationcited by 0
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  1. 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactionscited by 0
  2. 2026Omni IIE Bench: Benchmarking the Practical Capabilities of Image Editing Modelscited by 0
  3. 2026Towards Robust Sequential Decomposition for Complex Image Editingcited by 0
  4. 2026Editing Everything Everywhere All at Oncecited by 0
  5. 2026RegionCache: Semantic-Aware Region Reuse for Efficient Multi-Turn Image Generationcited by 0
  6. 2026ProgressNet: Sketching and Prompting with a Frozen Text-to-Image Modelcited by 0

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