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AttentionDrag: Exploiting Latent Correlation Knowledge in Pre-trained Diffusion Models for Image Editing

arXiv 2506.13301 ↗First posted 16 Jun 2025cs.CVcited by 1

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Traditional point-based image editing methods rely on iterative latent optimization or geometric transformations, which are either inefficient in their processing or fail to capture the semantic relationships within the image. These methods often overlook the powerful yet underutilized image editing capabilities inherent in pre-trained diffusion models. In this work, we propose a novel one-step point-based image editing method, named AttentionDrag, which leverages the inherent latent knowledge and feature correlations within pre-trained diffusion models for image editing tasks. This framework enables semantic consistency and high-quality manipulation without the need for extensive re-optimization or retraining. Specifically, we reutilize the latent correlations knowledge learned by the self-attention mechanism in the U-Net module during the DDIM inversion process to automatically identify and adjust relevant image regions, ensuring semantic validity and consistency. Additionally, AttentionDrag adaptively generates masks to guide the editing process, enabling precise and context-aware modifications with friendly interaction. Our results demonstrate a performance that surpasses most state-of-the-art methods with significantly faster speeds, showing a more efficient and semantically coherent solution for point-based image editing tasks.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper 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 32 of its 35 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 16 Jun 2025.

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32 of 35 references.

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  1. 2024GoodDrag: Towards Good Practices for Drag Editing with Diffusion Models10 Apr
  2. 2024Noise Map Guidance: Inversion with Spatial Context for Real Image Editing7 Feb
  3. 2024DiffEditor: Boosting Accuracy and Flexibility on Diffusion-based Image Editing4 Feb
  4. 2023Inversion-Free Image Editing with Natural Language7 Dec
  5. 2023Direct Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code2 Oct
  6. 2023DragonDiffusion: Enabling Drag-style Manipulation on Diffusion Models5 Jul
  7. 2023DragDiffusion: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Interactive Point-based Image Editing26 Jun
  8. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions17 Nov
  9. 2022Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models17 Nov
  10. 2022Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing with Diffusion Models17 Oct
  11. 2021DiffusionCLIP: Text-Guided Diffusion Models for Robust Image Manipulation6 Oct

Other references · 21

  1. 2020Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Modelscited by 21,076
  2. 2015U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentationcited by 19,713
  3. 2021High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Modelscited by 18,863
  4. 2018The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metriccited by 11,177
  5. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,781
  6. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,255
  7. 2022Classifier-Free Diffusion Guidancecited by 5,847
  8. 2022Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross Attention Controlcited by 2,431
  9. 2022Plug-and-Play Diffusion Features for Text-Driven Image-to-Image Translationcited by 906
  10. 2023MasaCtrl: Tuning-Free Mutual Self-Attention Control for Consistent Image Synthesis and Editingcited by 727
  11. 2023InstaFlow: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Diffusion-Based Text-to-Image Generationcited by 395
  12. 2023Diffusion Self-Guidance for Controllable Image Generationcited by 305
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  1. 2023Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-based Manipulation on the Generative Image Manifoldcited by 219
  2. 2023InstructDiffusion: A Generalist Modeling Interface for Vision Taskscited by 164
  3. 2023HD-Painter: High-Resolution and Prompt-Faithful Text-Guided Image Inpainting with Diffusion Modelscited by 67
  4. 2023Inst-Inpaint: Instructing to Remove Objects with Diffusion Modelscited by 66
  5. 2024Drag Your Noise: Interactive Point-based Editing via Diffusion Semantic Propagationcited by 51
  6. 2024StableDrag: Stable Dragging for Point-based Image Editingcited by 28
  7. 2024FastDrag: Manipulate Anything in One Stepcited by 21
  8. 2024DragText: Rethinking Text Embedding in Point-based Image Editingcited by 13
  9. 2023Cross-Scope Spatial-Spectral Information Aggregation for Hyperspectral Image Super-Resolutioncited by 10

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  3. 2024Towards Understanding Cross and Self-Attention in Stable Diffusion for Text-Guided Image Editing
  4. 2024Enabling Local Editing in Diffusion Models by Joint and Individual Component Analysis
  5. 2025Exploring Multimodal Diffusion Transformers for Enhanced Prompt-based Image Editing
  6. 2025LatentEdit: Adaptive Latent Control for Consistent Semantic Editing
  7. 2022DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
  8. 2025PartEdit: Fine-Grained Image Editing using Pre-Trained Diffusion Models