FIA-Edit: Frequency-Interactive Attention for Efficient and High-Fidelity Inversion-Free Text-Guided Image Editing
On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing
Abstract (arXiv)
Text-guided image editing has advanced rapidly with the rise of diffusion models. While flow-based inversion-free methods offer high efficiency by avoiding latent inversion, they often fail to effectively integrate source information, leading to poor background preservation, spatial inconsistencies, and over-editing due to the lack of effective integration of source information. In this paper, we present FIA-Edit, a novel inversion-free framework that achieves high-fidelity and semantically precise edits through a Frequency-Interactive Attention. Specifically, we design two key components: (1) a Frequency Representation Interaction (FRI) module that enhances cross-domain alignment by exchanging frequency components between source and target features within self-attention, and (2) a Feature Injection (FIJ) module that explicitly incorporates source-side queries, keys, values, and text embeddings into the target branch's cross-attention to preserve structure and semantics. Comprehensive and extensive experiments demonstrate that FIA-Edit supports high-fidelity editing at low computational cost (~6s per 512 * 512 image on an RTX 4090) and consistently outperforms existing methods across diverse tasks in visual quality, background fidelity, and controllability. Furthermore, we are the first to extend text-guided image editing to clinical applications. By synthesizing anatomically coherent hemorrhage variations in surgical images, FIA-Edit opens new opportunities for medical data augmentation and delivers significant gains in downstream bleeding classification. Our project is available at: https://github.com/kk42yy/FIA-Edit.
Key facts. Cited by 8 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 25 of its 38 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 15 Nov 2025.
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25 of 38 references.
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- 2024Taming Rectified Flow for Inversion and Editing7 Nov
- 2024FlexiEdit: Frequency-Aware Latent Refinement for Enhanced Non-Rigid Editing25 Jul
- 2024FreeDiff: Progressive Frequency Truncation for Image Editing with Diffusion Models18 Apr
- 2023Inversion-Free Image Editing with Natural Language7 Dec
- 2023Direct Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code2 Oct
- 2023Negative-prompt Inversion: Fast Image Inversion for Editing with Text-guided Diffusion Models26 May
- 2022Null-text Inversion for Editing Real Images using Guided Diffusion Models17 Nov
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Citing papers per year: 2026: 8.
8 papers.
- 2026SNR-Edit: Structure-Aware Noise Rectification for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Editingcited by 2
- 2026DirectEdit: Step-Level Accurate Inversion for Flow-Based Image Editingcited by 1
- 2026UniEditBench: A Unified and Cost-Effective Benchmark for Image and Video Editing via Distilled MLLMscited by 0
- 2026LimeCross: Context-Conditioned Layered Image Editing with Structural Consistencycited by 0
- 2026Wavelet-Guided Semantic Signal Compensation for Inversion-Free Image Editingcited by 0
- 2026h-Flow: Flexible Flow-based Image Editing via Doob's h-Transformcited by 0
- 2026RIDGE: Re-Noising with Internal Dynamic Guidance for Image Editingcited by 0
- 2026Constrained Edit Fields for Training-Free Flow Editingcited by 0
- 2026Constrained Edit Fields for Training-Free Flow Editing27 Sep 2026
- 2026RIDGE: Re-Noising with Internal Dynamic Guidance for Image Editing4 Aug 2026
- 2026h-Flow: Flexible Flow-based Image Editing via Doob's h-Transform12 Jul 2026
- 2026Wavelet-Guided Semantic Signal Compensation for Inversion-Free Image Editing2 Jul 2026
- 2026LimeCross: Context-Conditioned Layered Image Editing with Structural Consistency11 May 2026
- 2026DirectEdit: Step-Level Accurate Inversion for Flow-Based Image Editing4 May 2026
- 2026UniEditBench: A Unified and Cost-Effective Benchmark for Image and Video Editing via Distilled MLLMs17 Apr 2026
- 2026SNR-Edit: Structure-Aware Noise Rectification for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Editing27 Jan 2026
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