Look Back to Move Forward: Learning to Revisit for Agentic Compositional Image Generation
cs.CV, cs.AI
Submitted: 2026-10-12
Updated: 2026-10-12
Code: https://github.com/Flipped-zx/GenRevisit
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: Text-to-image models have made remarkable progress in visual fidelity and instruction following, yet complex compositional generation remains challenging.
Abstract
Text-to-image models have made remarkable progress in visual fidelity and instruction following, yet complex compositional generation remains challenging. Existing agentic approaches address this limitation through iterative generation and editing, adapting their actions based on interaction history. However, they typically fix the continuation state (i.e., the image from which refinement proceeds) to the latest image. Since iterative editing is not necessarily monotonic, the agent may continue refining from the latest image even when it has already degraded. In this work, we introduce GenRevisit, an agentic framework that extends action selection to joint continuation-state and action selection. The agent can not only use interaction history to adjust editing instructions but also select an image candidate to edit, jointly deciding where to continue from and how to refine. We train GenRevisit with SFT followed by agentic reinforcement learning. To address the coarse credit assignment of final outcome reward in GRPO, which assigns the same trajectory-level advantage to all actions, we further propose Normalized Action Credit Assignment (NACA) to redistribute positive advantage according to each action's contribution to reducing the remaining objective. On GenEval2, GenRevisit achieves GM scores of 84.3 and 74.4 with Qwen-Image-2512 and Z-Image-Turbo, surpassing the strongest baselines using the same generators by 12.7 and 10.9 points respectively. GenRevisit achieves state-of-the-art performance on GenEval, GenEval++, and GenEval2 among baselines.
Sources
- Qwen-Image Technical Report
- GenEval 2: Addressing Benchmark Drift in Text-to-Image Evaluation
- Maestro: Self-Improving Text-to-Image Generation via Agent Orchestration
- Iterative Refinement Improves Compositional Image Generation
- Generation Navigator: A State-Aware Agentic Framework for Image Generation
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- Benchmarking and Evolving Reason-Reflect-Rectify for Reflective Visual Generation
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- Inference-Time Scaling for Diffusion Models beyond Scaling Denoising Steps
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