TextEditBench: Evaluating Reasoning-aware Text Editing Beyond Rendering

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Autori principali: Gui, Rui, Wan, Yang, Han, Haochen, Mao, Dongxing, Liu, Fangming, Li, Min, Wang, Alex Jinpeng
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author Gui, Rui
Wan, Yang
Han, Haochen
Mao, Dongxing
Liu, Fangming
Li, Min
Wang, Alex Jinpeng
author_facet Gui, Rui
Wan, Yang
Han, Haochen
Mao, Dongxing
Liu, Fangming
Li, Min
Wang, Alex Jinpeng
contents Text rendering has recently emerged as one of the most challenging frontiers in visual generation, drawing significant attention from large-scale diffusion and multimodal models. However, text editing within images remains largely unexplored, as it requires generating legible characters while preserving semantic, geometric, and contextual coherence. To fill this gap, we introduce TextEditBench, a comprehensive evaluation benchmark that explicitly focuses on text-centric regions in images. Beyond basic pixel manipulations, our benchmark emphasizes reasoning-intensive editing scenarios that require models to understand physical plausibility, linguistic meaning, and cross-modal dependencies. We further propose a novel evaluation dimension, Semantic Expectation (SE), which measures reasoning ability of model to maintain semantic consistency, contextual coherence, and cross-modal alignment during text editing. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art editing systems reveal that while current models can follow simple textual instructions, they still struggle with context-dependent reasoning, physical consistency, and layout-aware integration. By focusing evaluation on this long-overlooked yet fundamental capability, TextEditBench establishes a new testing ground for advancing text-guided image editing and reasoning in multimodal generation.
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spellingShingle TextEditBench: Evaluating Reasoning-aware Text Editing Beyond Rendering
Gui, Rui
Wan, Yang
Han, Haochen
Mao, Dongxing
Liu, Fangming
Li, Min
Wang, Alex Jinpeng
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Text rendering has recently emerged as one of the most challenging frontiers in visual generation, drawing significant attention from large-scale diffusion and multimodal models. However, text editing within images remains largely unexplored, as it requires generating legible characters while preserving semantic, geometric, and contextual coherence. To fill this gap, we introduce TextEditBench, a comprehensive evaluation benchmark that explicitly focuses on text-centric regions in images. Beyond basic pixel manipulations, our benchmark emphasizes reasoning-intensive editing scenarios that require models to understand physical plausibility, linguistic meaning, and cross-modal dependencies. We further propose a novel evaluation dimension, Semantic Expectation (SE), which measures reasoning ability of model to maintain semantic consistency, contextual coherence, and cross-modal alignment during text editing. Extensive experiments on state-of-the-art editing systems reveal that while current models can follow simple textual instructions, they still struggle with context-dependent reasoning, physical consistency, and layout-aware integration. By focusing evaluation on this long-overlooked yet fundamental capability, TextEditBench establishes a new testing ground for advancing text-guided image editing and reasoning in multimodal generation.
title TextEditBench: Evaluating Reasoning-aware Text Editing Beyond Rendering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16270