Reasoning to Edit: Hypothetical Instruction-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning

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Main Authors: He, Qingdong, Chen, Xueqin, Wang, Chaoyi, Pan, Yanjie, Hu, Xiaobin, Gan, Zhenye, Wang, Yabiao, Wang, Chengjie, Li, Xiangtai, Zhang, Jiangning
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author He, Qingdong
Chen, Xueqin
Wang, Chaoyi
Pan, Yanjie
Hu, Xiaobin
Gan, Zhenye
Wang, Yabiao
Wang, Chengjie
Li, Xiangtai
Zhang, Jiangning
author_facet He, Qingdong
Chen, Xueqin
Wang, Chaoyi
Pan, Yanjie
Hu, Xiaobin
Gan, Zhenye
Wang, Yabiao
Wang, Chengjie
Li, Xiangtai
Zhang, Jiangning
contents Instruction-based image editing (IIE) has advanced rapidly with the success of diffusion models. However, existing efforts primarily focus on simple and explicit instructions to execute editing operations such as adding, deleting, moving, or swapping objects. They struggle to handle more complex implicit hypothetical instructions that require deeper reasoning to infer plausible visual changes and user intent. Additionally, current datasets provide limited support for training and evaluating reasoning-aware editing capabilities. Architecturally, these methods also lack mechanisms for fine-grained detail extraction that support such reasoning. To address these limitations, we propose Reason50K, a large-scale dataset specifically curated for training and evaluating hypothetical instruction reasoning image editing, along with ReasonBrain, a novel framework designed to reason over and execute implicit hypothetical instructions across diverse scenarios. Reason50K includes over 50K samples spanning four key reasoning scenarios: Physical, Temporal, Causal, and Story reasoning. ReasonBrain leverages Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for editing guidance generation and a diffusion model for image synthesis, incorporating a Fine-grained Reasoning Cue Extraction (FRCE) module to capture detailed visual and textual semantics essential for supporting instruction reasoning. To mitigate the semantic loss, we further introduce a Cross-Modal Enhancer (CME) that enables rich interactions between the fine-grained cues and MLLM-derived features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ReasonBrain consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on reasoning scenarios while exhibiting strong zero-shot generalization to conventional IIE tasks. Our dataset and code will be released publicly.
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spellingShingle Reasoning to Edit: Hypothetical Instruction-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning
He, Qingdong
Chen, Xueqin
Wang, Chaoyi
Pan, Yanjie
Hu, Xiaobin
Gan, Zhenye
Wang, Yabiao
Wang, Chengjie
Li, Xiangtai
Zhang, Jiangning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Instruction-based image editing (IIE) has advanced rapidly with the success of diffusion models. However, existing efforts primarily focus on simple and explicit instructions to execute editing operations such as adding, deleting, moving, or swapping objects. They struggle to handle more complex implicit hypothetical instructions that require deeper reasoning to infer plausible visual changes and user intent. Additionally, current datasets provide limited support for training and evaluating reasoning-aware editing capabilities. Architecturally, these methods also lack mechanisms for fine-grained detail extraction that support such reasoning. To address these limitations, we propose Reason50K, a large-scale dataset specifically curated for training and evaluating hypothetical instruction reasoning image editing, along with ReasonBrain, a novel framework designed to reason over and execute implicit hypothetical instructions across diverse scenarios. Reason50K includes over 50K samples spanning four key reasoning scenarios: Physical, Temporal, Causal, and Story reasoning. ReasonBrain leverages Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for editing guidance generation and a diffusion model for image synthesis, incorporating a Fine-grained Reasoning Cue Extraction (FRCE) module to capture detailed visual and textual semantics essential for supporting instruction reasoning. To mitigate the semantic loss, we further introduce a Cross-Modal Enhancer (CME) that enables rich interactions between the fine-grained cues and MLLM-derived features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ReasonBrain consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on reasoning scenarios while exhibiting strong zero-shot generalization to conventional IIE tasks. Our dataset and code will be released publicly.
title Reasoning to Edit: Hypothetical Instruction-Based Image Editing with Visual Reasoning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01908