An agentic framework that fills in missing context for real-world image generation

Qwen-Image-Agent uses planning and grounding to gather missing information from reasoning, search, memory, and feedback.

Independent
Zekai Zhang · Jiahao Li · Jie Zhang · Kaiyuan Gao · Kun Yan · Lihan Jiang · +15 more
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Text-to-image generation fails when prompts underspecify needed context; Qwen-Image-Agent bridges that gap through planning and grounding, and beats prior agentic baselines on IA-Bench.

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Real-world text-to-image requests are often underspecified. Qwen-Image-Agent treats the prompt as partial context and builds the full generation context before generating: planning identifies what is missing, and separate modules gather it via reasoning, web search, memory of past turns, and feedback. It is training-free and works with existing image generators.

The system is evaluated with a new benchmark, IA-Bench, covering Plan, Reason, Search, and Memory across 17 real-world tasks, 730 test instances, and 1801 checklist items. It outperforms strong agentic baselines on IA-Bench, Mindbench, and WISE-Verified. The interesting point is that the bottleneck in practical image generation is not rendering quality but gathering the right context.

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