EditThinker: Unlocking Iterative Reasoning for Any Image Editor
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| author | Li, Hongyu Zhang, Manyuan Zheng, Dian Guo, Ziyu Jia, Yimeng Feng, Kaituo Yu, Hao Liu, Yexin Feng, Yan Pei, Peng Cai, Xunliang Huang, Linjiang Li, Hongsheng Liu, Si |
| author_facet | Li, Hongyu Zhang, Manyuan Zheng, Dian Guo, Ziyu Jia, Yimeng Feng, Kaituo Yu, Hao Liu, Yexin Feng, Yan Pei, Peng Cai, Xunliang Huang, Linjiang Li, Hongsheng Liu, Si |
| contents | Instruction-based image editing has emerged as a prominent research area, which, benefiting from image generation foundation models, have achieved high aesthetic quality, making instruction-following capability the primary challenge. Existing approaches improve instruction adherence via supervised or reinforcement learning, yet single-turn success rates remain limited due to inherent stochasticity and a lack of deliberation. In this work, we propose a deliberative editing framework to 'think' while they edit, which simulates the human cognitive loop by iteratively executing a Think-while-Edit cycle: Critiquing results and Refining instructions , followed by Repeating the generation until satisfactory. Specifically, we train a single MLLM, EditThinker, to act as the reasoning engine of this framework, which jointly produce the critique score, reasoning process, and refined instructions. We employ reinforcement learning to align the EditThinker's thinking with its editing, thereby generating more targeted instruction improvements. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that our approach significantly improves the instruction-following capability of any image editing model by a large margin. We will release our data construction framework, datasets, and models to benefit the community. |
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| spellingShingle | EditThinker: Unlocking Iterative Reasoning for Any Image Editor Li, Hongyu Zhang, Manyuan Zheng, Dian Guo, Ziyu Jia, Yimeng Feng, Kaituo Yu, Hao Liu, Yexin Feng, Yan Pei, Peng Cai, Xunliang Huang, Linjiang Li, Hongsheng Liu, Si Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Instruction-based image editing has emerged as a prominent research area, which, benefiting from image generation foundation models, have achieved high aesthetic quality, making instruction-following capability the primary challenge. Existing approaches improve instruction adherence via supervised or reinforcement learning, yet single-turn success rates remain limited due to inherent stochasticity and a lack of deliberation. In this work, we propose a deliberative editing framework to 'think' while they edit, which simulates the human cognitive loop by iteratively executing a Think-while-Edit cycle: Critiquing results and Refining instructions , followed by Repeating the generation until satisfactory. Specifically, we train a single MLLM, EditThinker, to act as the reasoning engine of this framework, which jointly produce the critique score, reasoning process, and refined instructions. We employ reinforcement learning to align the EditThinker's thinking with its editing, thereby generating more targeted instruction improvements. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks demonstrate that our approach significantly improves the instruction-following capability of any image editing model by a large margin. We will release our data construction framework, datasets, and models to benefit the community. |
| title | EditThinker: Unlocking Iterative Reasoning for Any Image Editor |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05965 |