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Kaihang Pan, Weile Chen, Haiyi Qiu, Qifan Yu, Wendong Bu, Zehan Wang, Yun Zhu, Juncheng Li and 1 more

Researchers from Zhejiang University and Shanghai AI Lab introduced WiseEdit, a benchmark that comprehensively evaluates image editing models across cognitive steps like awareness, interpretation, and imagination, utilizing diverse human knowledge types. Evaluation of 21 models on this benchmark demonstrated a persistent performance gap between open and closed-source systems and highlighted limitations in knowledge fidelity and compositional creativity.

Key insights

  • Models integrating visual comprehension (VLMs) with diffusion models consistently outperform purely diffusion-based approaches, highlighting the criticality of robust visual understanding for advanced image editing.
  • A significant performance gap persists between closed-source models, which substantially outperform open-source counterparts, indicating their continued leadership in advanced AI capabilities.
  • Knowledge-based reasoning and compositional creativity remain key bottlenecks, as models struggle with fully applying world knowledge to follow complex instructions and preserving subject identity during creative transformations.

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