# LoRA Direction Extraction for Controllable Light Toggling in FLUX.1 Kontext

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03771 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2610.03771/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in 3D, point cloud and scene generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models.
- Builds on 19 of its 23 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 29 Sep 2026.

## Placed in

- Diffusion models / [3D, point cloud and scene generation](https://mlsanity.com/diffusion/3d-point-cloud-and-scene-generation/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 19 of 19)

- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [LoRA: Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.09685/) (2021)
- [A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.04948/) (2018)
- [Flow Matching for Generative Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.02747/) (2022)
- [MUSIQ: Multi-scale Image Quality Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.05997/) (2021)
- [FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2506.15742/) (2025)
- [Blind Image Quality Assessment via Vision-Language Correspondence: A Multitask Learning Perspective](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.14968/) (2023)
- [Concept Sliders: LoRA Adaptors for Precise Control in Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.12092/) (2023)
- [ARNIQA: Learning Distortion Manifold for Image Quality Assessment](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.14918/) (2023)
- [SwitchLight: Co-design of Physics-driven Architecture and Pre-training Framework for Human Portrait Relighting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.18848/) (2024)
- [Relightful Harmonization: Lighting-aware Portrait Background Replacement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2312.06886/) (2023)
- [LightLab: Controlling Light Sources in Images with Diffusion Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.09608/) (2025)
- [ScribbleLight: Single Image Indoor Relighting with Scribbles](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.17696/) (2024)
- [Kontinuous Kontext: Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.08532/) (2025)
- [LuxRemix: Lighting Decomposition and Remixing for Indoor Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2601.15283/) (2026)
- [Preserve or Modify? Context-Aware Evaluation for Balancing Preservation and Modification in Text-Guided Image Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.11374/) (2024)
- [LoRA of Change: Learning to Generate LoRA for the Editing Instruction from A Single Before-After Image Pair](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2411.19156/) (2024)
- [StyleQoRA: Quality-Aware Low-Rank Adaptation for Few-Shot Multi-Style Editing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.11236/) (2025)
- [ControlLight: Towards Controllable, Consistent, and Generalizable Low-Light Enhancement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.25569/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

We propose a fine-tuning method for flow-matching diffusion models aimed at realistic artificial light modeling without the need for a large training dataset. We address the task of controllable interior image editing, where the goal is to turn artificial light sources on or off while preserving the scene geometry, object placement, materials, and visual identity of the original image. To achieve this, we decompose the task into two independent formulations. We introduce the LoRA Direction Training Method, which extracts the pure direction of the LoRA adapter effect in the diffusion model flow field, and we also introduce specialized loss functions to ensure the realism of the inverse transformation. Additionally, the resulting increment map is used for more precise adjustment of the lighting color and temperature.
