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New ScribbleEdit benchmark highlights VLM/LLM struggles in scribble-based image editing

Researchers have introduced ScribbleEdit, a new benchmark designed to evaluate the capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in performing image editing tasks based solely on user scribbles. Current models struggle with this type of input, often failing to accurately interpret the user's intent and spatial information from scribbles alone. The ScribbleEdit benchmark includes an automated data construction pipeline and a specific evaluation protocol to measure intention alignment, revealing significant shortcomings in existing VLM/LLM-based editing models. To address these limitations, the researchers propose a soft-token baseline that improves semantic understanding and outperforms standard models on the benchmark. AI

IMPACT This benchmark may drive improvements in interactive image editing tools by focusing VLM/LLM development on understanding user intent from sparse, intuitive inputs.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new benchmark and a proposed baseline for a specific AI research problem, published on arXiv.

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New ScribbleEdit benchmark highlights VLM/LLM struggles in scribble-based image editing

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    ScribbleEdit: A Benchmark for Scribble-Only Image Editing

    Scribble-based interaction provides a lightweight and intuitive way for users to specify image editing intents in interactive editing tools. However, current image editing models based on VLMs or LLMs struggle to understand and execute edits based solely on scribble inputs. To sy…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Jie Ren, Hao Kang, Kai Guo, Yiding Yang, Bo Liu, Liming Jiang, Qing Yan, Zichuan Liu, Yizhi Song, Yue Xing, Hui Liu, Xin Lu ·

    ScribbleEdit: A Benchmark for Scribble-Only Image Editing

    arXiv:2610.09382v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scribble-based interaction provides a lightweight and intuitive way for users to specify image editing intents in interactive editing tools. However, current image editing models based on VLMs or LLMs struggle to understand and ex…