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ARXIV:2603.26174 · CREATIVE IMAGE MANIPULATION · SUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:54 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.26174CREATIVE IMAGE MANIPULATIONSUBMITTED 30 MAR · 21:54 UTCFRESHNESS STALEChonghuinan Wang · Zihan Chen · Yuxiang Wei · Tianyi Jiang · Xiaohe Wu · Fan Li · +2 at arXiv
An automated evaluation framework and benchmark for creative image manipulation that provides reliable metrics and identifies key challenges for model development.
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Pain An automated evaluation framework and benchmark for creative image manipulation that provides reliable metrics and identifies key challenges for model development.
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An automated evaluation framework and benchmark for creative image manipulation that provides reliable metrics and identifies key challenges for model development. However, existing evaluation methods lack a systematic and human-aligned framework for assessing model…
Instruction-based multimodal image manipulation has recently made rapid progress. However, existing evaluation methods lack a systematic and human-aligned framework for assessing model performance on complex and creative editing tasks.
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. The results reveal that while closed-source models generally outperform open-source ones on complex and creative tasks, all models still struggle to complete such edits…
Creative Image Manipulation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
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An automated evaluation framework and benchmark for creative image manipulation that provides reliable metrics and identifies key challenges for model development.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.26174An automated evaluation framework and benchmark for creative image manipulation that provides reliable metrics and identifies key challenges for model development.
Abstract
Instruction-based multimodal image manipulation has recently made rapid progress. However, existing evaluation methods lack a systematic and human-aligned framework for assessing model performance on complex and creative editing tasks. To address this gap, we propose CREval, a fully automated question-answer (QA)-based evaluation pipeline that overcomes the incompleteness and poor interpretability of opaque Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) scoring. Simultaneously, we introduce CREval-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for creative image manipulation under complex instructions. CREval-Bench covers three categories and nine creative dimensions, comprising over 800 editing samples and 13K evaluation queries. Leveraging this pipeline and benchmark, we systematically evaluate a diverse set of state-of-the-art open and closed-source models. The results reveal that while closed-source models generally outperform open-source ones on complex and creative tasks, all models still struggle to complete such edits effectively. In addition, user studies demonstrate strong consistency between CREval's automated metrics and human judgments. Therefore, CREval provides a reliable foundation for evaluating image editing models on complex and creative image manipulation tasks, and highlights key challenges and opportunities for future research.
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An automated evaluation framework and benchmark for creative image manipulation that provides reliable metrics and identifies key challenges for model development. However, existing evaluation methods lack a systematic and human-aligned framework for assessing model performance...
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Instruction-based multimodal image manipulation has recently made rapid progress. However, existing evaluation methods lack a systematic and human-aligned framework for assessing model performance on complex and creative editing tasks.
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. The results reveal that while closed-source models generally outperform open-source ones on complex and creative tasks, all models still struggle to complete such edits effectively. Code availability is f...
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Creative Image Manipulation moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
we propose CREval, a fully automated question-answer (QA)-based evaluation pipeline
This is explicitly stated in the abstract as a core contribution.
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we introduce CREval-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for creative image manipulation under complex instructions. CREval-Bench covers three categories and nine creative dimensions, comprising over 800 editing samples and 13K evaluation queries.
This is explicitly stated in the abstract as a core contribution and described in detail.
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The results reveal that while closed-source models generally outperform open-source ones on complex and creative tasks
This is stated in the abstract and supported by the mention of results from evaluating state-of-the-art models.
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all models still struggle to complete such edits effectively.
This is stated in the abstract as a key finding from the model evaluations.
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user studies demonstrate strong consistency between CREval’s automated metrics and human judgments.
This is explicitly stated in the abstract as a validation of the CREval framework.
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current generative image generation and editing models still face significant challenges when handling complex instruction-based tasks, particularly in “free-style creative image editing” scenarios
This is stated in the introduction as a motivation for the proposed work.
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Each edited image is evaluated across three metrics: Instruction Following (IF), Visual Consistency (VC), and Visual Quality (VQ).
This is explicitly stated in the description of the evaluation process.
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we propose CREval, a fully automated question-answer (QA)-based evaluation pipeline
This is a core contribution stated multiple times in the abstract and introduction.
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we introduce CREval-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark specifically designed for creative image manipulation under complex instructions. CREval-Bench covers three categories and nine creative dimensions, comprising over 800 editing samples and 13K evaluation queries.
This is a core contribution stated multiple times in the abstract and introduction, with specific numbers provided.
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The results reveal that while closed-source models generally outperform open-source ones on complex and creative tasks, all models still struggle to complete such edits effectively.
This result is explicitly stated in the abstract and supported by the evaluation results mentioned.
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all models still struggle to complete such edits effectively.
This limitation is explicitly stated in the abstract as a finding from their evaluation.
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user studies demonstrate strong consistency between CREval’s automated metrics and human judgments.
This is a key validation of the proposed method, stated in the abstract and introduction.
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