Banana100: Breaking NR-IQA Metrics by 100 Iterative Image Replications with Nano Banana Pro

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Auteurs principaux: Tang, Kenan, Arunshankar, Praveen, Hua, Andong, Yang, Anthony, Qin, Yao
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author Tang, Kenan
Arunshankar, Praveen
Hua, Andong
Yang, Anthony
Qin, Yao
author_facet Tang, Kenan
Arunshankar, Praveen
Hua, Andong
Yang, Anthony
Qin, Yao
contents The multi-step, iterative image editing capabilities of multi-modal agentic systems have transformed digital content creation. Although latest image editing models faithfully follow instructions and generate high-quality images in single-turn edits, we identify a critical weakness in multi-turn editing, which is the iterative degradation of image quality. As images are repeatedly edited, minor artifacts accumulate, rapidly leading to a severe accumulation of visible noise and a failure to follow simple editing instructions. To systematically study these failures, we introduce Banana100, a comprehensive dataset of 28,000 degraded images generated through 100 iterative editing steps, including diverse textures and image content. Alarmingly, image quality evaluators fail to detect the degradation. Among 21 popular no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) metrics, none of them consistently assign lower scores to heavily degraded images than to clean ones. The dual failures of generators and evaluators may threaten the stability of future model training and the safety of deployed agentic systems, if the low-quality synthetic data generated by multi-turn edits escape quality filters. We release the full code and data to facilitate the development of more robust models, helping to mitigate the fragility of multi-modal agentic systems.
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spellingShingle Banana100: Breaking NR-IQA Metrics by 100 Iterative Image Replications with Nano Banana Pro
Tang, Kenan
Arunshankar, Praveen
Hua, Andong
Yang, Anthony
Qin, Yao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
The multi-step, iterative image editing capabilities of multi-modal agentic systems have transformed digital content creation. Although latest image editing models faithfully follow instructions and generate high-quality images in single-turn edits, we identify a critical weakness in multi-turn editing, which is the iterative degradation of image quality. As images are repeatedly edited, minor artifacts accumulate, rapidly leading to a severe accumulation of visible noise and a failure to follow simple editing instructions. To systematically study these failures, we introduce Banana100, a comprehensive dataset of 28,000 degraded images generated through 100 iterative editing steps, including diverse textures and image content. Alarmingly, image quality evaluators fail to detect the degradation. Among 21 popular no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) metrics, none of them consistently assign lower scores to heavily degraded images than to clean ones. The dual failures of generators and evaluators may threaten the stability of future model training and the safety of deployed agentic systems, if the low-quality synthetic data generated by multi-turn edits escape quality filters. We release the full code and data to facilitate the development of more robust models, helping to mitigate the fragility of multi-modal agentic systems.
title Banana100: Breaking NR-IQA Metrics by 100 Iterative Image Replications with Nano Banana Pro
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03400