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X2Edit: Revisiting Arbitrary-Instruction Image Editing through Self-Constructed Data and Task-Aware Representation Learning

arXiv 2508.07607 ↗First posted 11 Aug 2025cs.CVcited by 24

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Existing open-source datasets for arbitrary-instruction image editing remain suboptimal, while a plug-and-play editing module compatible with community-prevalent generative models is notably absent. In this paper, we first introduce the X2Edit Dataset, a comprehensive dataset covering 14 diverse editing tasks, including subject-driven generation. We utilize the industry-leading unified image generation models and expert models to construct the data. Meanwhile, we design reasonable editing instructions with the VLM and implement various scoring mechanisms to filter the data. As a result, we construct 3.7 million high-quality data with balanced categories. Second, to better integrate seamlessly with community image generation models, we design task-aware MoE-LoRA training based on FLUX.1, with only 8% of the parameters of the full model. To further improve the final performance, we utilize the internal representations of the diffusion model and define positive/negative samples based on image editing types to introduce contrastive learning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the model's editing performance is competitive among many excellent models. Additionally, the constructed dataset exhibits substantial advantages over existing open-source datasets. The open-source code, checkpoints, and datasets for X2Edit can be found at the following link: https://github.com/OPPO-Mente-Lab/X2Edit.

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  1. 2025OpenVE-3M: A Large-Scale High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-Guided Video Editingcited by 50
  2. 2026InternVL-U: Democratizing Unified Multimodal Models for Understanding, Reasoning, Generation and Editingcited by 23
  3. 2026LLaDA2.0-Uni: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with Diffusion Large Language Modelcited by 12
  4. 2025UnicEdit-10M: A Dataset and Benchmark Breaking the Scale-Quality Barrier via Unified Verification for Reasoning-Enriched Editscited by 9
  5. 2026LLaDA-o: An Effective and Length-Adaptive Omni Diffusion Modelcited by 8
  6. 2026SAMA: Factorized Semantic Anchoring and Motion Alignment for Instruction-Guided Video Editingcited by 8
  7. 2026TAG-MoE: Task-Aware Gating for Unified Generative Mixture-of-Expertscited by 6
  8. 2026WeEdit: A Dataset, Benchmark and Glyph-Guided Framework for Text-centric Image Editingcited by 6
  9. 2026ScaleEdit-12M: Scaling Open-Source Image Editing Data Generation via Multi-Agent Frameworkcited by 5
  10. 2026Visual Generation in the New Era: An Evolution from Atomic Mapping to Agentic World Modelingcited by 5
  11. 2025Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors?cited by 4
  12. 2026HP-Edit: A Human-Preference Post-Training Framework for Image Editingcited by 4
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  1. 2026Breaking Dual Bottlenecks: Evolving Unified Multimodal Models into Self-Adaptive Interleaved Visual Reasonerscited by 3
  2. 2026SIGMA: Selective-Interleaved Generation with Multi-Attribute Tokenscited by 2
  3. 2026FineEdit: Fine-Grained Image Edit with Bounding Box Guidancecited by 1
  4. 2026LIVE: Leveraging Image Manipulation Priors for Instruction-based Video Editingcited by 1
  5. 2026Ghosts Beneath Textures: Texture-Relation Cues for Cross-Paradigm AI-Generated Image Detectioncited by 1
  6. 2026PromptForge-350k: A Large-Scale Dataset and Contrastive Framework for Prompt-Based AI Image Forgery Localizationcited by 0
  7. 2026VINS-120K: Ultra High-Resolution Image Editing with A Large-Scale Datasetcited by 0
  8. 2026When Recovery Matters: The Blind Spot of Surrogate Privacy in MLLM Editingcited by 0
  9. 2026Instruction-based Image Editing: A Survey on Data, Models, Evaluation, and Applicationscited by 0
  10. 2026TransPhy: Visual In-Context Learning for Physically Grounded Image Editingcited by 0
  11. 2026KwaiMind Technical Reportcited by 0
  12. 2026ThinkV2V: Unleashing the Reasoning Capability of MLLMs for Instruction-Guided Video Editingcited by 0

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  3. 2025SuperEdit: Rectifying and Facilitating Supervision for Instruction-Based Image Editing
  4. 2026EditCaption: Human-Refined SFT and HAE-DPO for Image Editing Instruction Synthesis
  5. 2022InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions
  6. 2026Unlocking the Potential of Image Editing via Concept Scaling and Dense Supervision
  7. 2023SmartEdit: Exploring Complex Instruction-based Image Editing with Multimodal Large Language Models
  8. 2026Scalable Minimal-Change Learning for Controllable Image Editing