| Boogu-Image-0.1: Boosting Open-Source Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation | ✓ Link | 4.64 | | | | | | | | | | Boogu-Image-0.1-Edit-Thinking | 2026-07-14 |
| SenseNova-U1.5: Towards Native Unified Visual Intelligence | ✓ Link | 4.59 | | | | | | | | | | SenseNova-U1.5 | 2026-09-10 |
| Simplifying and Improving On-Policy Distillation for Few-Step Diffusion | | 4.51 | | | | | | | | | | SMD (Qwen-Image-Edit-2511, 4-NFE) | 2026-10-13 |
| LongCat-Image Technical Report | ✓ Link | 4.50 | 4.51 | 4.57 | 3.93 | 4.76 | 4.60 | 4.49 | 4.85 | 4.01 | 4.74 | LongCat-Image-Edit | 2025-12-08 |
| FineEdit: Fine-Grained Image Edit with Bounding Box Guidance | | 4.50 | 4.53 | 4.57 | 4.03 | 4.83 | 4.65 | 4.53 | 4.68 | 3.85 | 4.86 | FineEdit | 2026-04-13 |
| Uniworld-V2: Reinforce Image Editing with Diffusion Negative-aware Finetuning and MLLM Implicit Feedback | ✓ Link | 4.49 | 4.29 | 4.44 | 4.32 | 4.69 | 4.72 | 4.41 | 4.91 | 3.83 | 4.83 | UniWorld-V2 | 2025-10-19 |
| NextFlow: Unified Sequential Modeling Activates Multimodal Understanding and Generation | | 4.49 | 4.33 | 4.68 | 4.22 | 4.50 | 4.67 | 4.38 | 4.74 | 4.11 | 4.77 | NextFlow-RL | 2026-01-05 |
| NextFlow: Unified Sequential Modeling Activates Multimodal Understanding and Generation | | 4.44 | 4.34 | 4.68 | 4.23 | 4.47 | 4.58 | 4.30 | 4.61 | 4.20 | 4.56 | NextFlow | 2026-01-05 |
| ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation | | 4.42 | 4.48 | 4.39 | 3.49 | 4.66 | 4.57 | 4.67 | 4.83 | 3.82 | 4.91 | ChronoEdit-14B | 2025-10-05 |
| Emu3.5: Native Multimodal Models are World Learners | ✓ Link | 4.41 | 4.61 | 4.32 | 3.96 | 4.84 | 4.58 | 4.35 | 4.79 | 3.69 | 4.57 | Emu3.5 | 2025-10-30 |
| REASONEDIT: Towards Reasoning-Enhanced Image Editing Models | ✓ Link | 4.40 | | | | | | | | | | ReasonEdit-S (thinking + reflection) | 2025-11-27 |
| Mage-Flow: An Efficient Native-Resolution Foundation Model for Image Generation and Editing | ✓ Link | 4.38 | | | | | | | | | | Mage-Flow-Edit-Turbo | 2026-07-21 |
| VisionDirector: Vision-Language Guided Closed-Loop Refinement for Generative Image Synthesis | | 4.35 | 4.55 | 4.32 | 3.72 | 4.83 | 4.41 | 4.52 | 4.92 | 4.05 | 4.72 | VisionDirector | 2025-12-22 |
| STAR: STacked AutoRegressive Scheme for Unified Multimodal Learning | | 4.34 | 4.33 | 4.19 | 4.19 | 4.59 | 4.58 | 4.36 | 4.59 | 3.67 | 4.60 | STAR-7B | 2025-12-15 |
| BluePixel: Toward Native 4K Agentic Image Editing | | 4.32 | 4.93 | 4.76 | 3.45 | 4.53 | 4.21 | 4.43 | 3.85 | 4.59 | 4.93 | BluePixel | 2026-10-14 |
| UniRef-Image-Edit: Towards Scalable and Consistent Multi-Reference Image Editing | | 4.28 | 4.24 | 3.97 | 3.67 | 4.62 | 4.40 | 4.28 | 4.91 | 3.62 | 4.72 | UniRef-Image-Edit | 2026-02-15 |
| UniSpace: Unified Visual Representation and Scalable Multimodal Modeling | ✓ Link | 4.28 | | | | | | | | | | UniSpace | 2026-08-09 |
| Qwen-Image Technical Report | ✓ Link | 4.27 | 4.38 | 4.16 | 3.43 | 4.66 | 4.14 | 4.38 | 4.81 | 3.82 | 4.69 | Qwen-Image | 2025-08-04 |
| DuoGen: Towards General Purpose Interleaved Multimodal Generation | | 4.19 | | | | | | | | | | DuoGen | 2026-01-31 |
| STAR: STacked AutoRegressive Scheme for Unified Multimodal Learning | | 4.14 | 4.26 | 4.06 | 3.78 | 4.46 | 4.34 | 4.19 | 4.53 | 3.29 | 4.38 | STAR-3B | 2025-12-15 |
| DeepGen 1.0: A Lightweight Unified Multimodal Model for Advancing Image Generation and Editing | ✓ Link | 4.14 | | | | | | | | | | DeepGen-1.0 | 2026-02-12 |
| ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation | | 4.13 | 4.30 | 4.29 | 2.87 | 4.23 | 4.50 | 4.40 | 4.60 | 3.20 | 4.81 | ChronoEdit-2B | 2025-10-05 |
| ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation | | 4.13 | 4.36 | 4.38 | 3.28 | 4.11 | 4.00 | 4.31 | 4.31 | 3.67 | 4.78 | ChronoEdit-14B-Turbo (8 steps) | 2025-10-05 |
| DreamLite: A Lightweight On-Device Unified Model for Image Generation and Editing | ✓ Link | 4.11 | | | | | | | | | | DreamLite | 2026-03-30 |
| UniReason 1.0: A Unified Reasoning Framework for World Knowledge Aligned Image Generation and Editing | | 4.06 | | | | | | | | | | UniReason 1.0 | 2026-02-02 |
| SPAR: Semantic-Pixel Self-Alignment and Adaptive Routing for Unified Multimodal Models | | 4.01 | 4.31 | 3.93 | 2.32 | 4.52 | 4.15 | 4.20 | 4.87 | 3.12 | 4.69 | SPAR-3B | 2026-06-22 |
| Ovis-U1 Technical Report | | 4.00 | 4.13 | 3.62 | 2.98 | 4.45 | 4.06 | 4.22 | 4.69 | 3.45 | 4.61 | Ovis-U1 | 2025-06-29 |
| UniLiP: Adapting CLIP for Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Editing | ✓ Link | 3.94 | 4.29 | 3.90 | | 4.44 | 4.10 | 4.14 | 4.80 | | | UniLIP-3B | 2025-07-31 |
| MetaPoint: Unlocking Precise Spatial Control in Visual Generation | | 3.94 | | | | | | | | | | BAGEL + MetaPoint | 2026-09-08 |
| SenseNova-U1: Unifying Multimodal Understanding and Generation with NEO-unify Architecture | ✓ Link | 3.91 | | | | | | | | | | SenseNova-U1-A3B-MoT | 2026-05-12 |
| LaViDa-R1: Advancing Reasoning for Unified Multimodal Diffusion Language Models | | 3.90 | 4.25 | 3.90 | 2.32 | 4.52 | 4.06 | 3.86 | 4.87 | 3.10 | 4.18 | LaViDa-R1 | 2026-02-15 |
| SNCE: Geometry-Aware Supervision for Scalable Discrete Image Generation | | 3.89 | 4.07 | 3.85 | 2.46 | 4.53 | 4.00 | 4.17 | 4.93 | 2.90 | 4.08 | LaViDa-O + SNCE | 2026-03-16 |
| VIBE: Visual Instruction Based Editor | | 3.85 | 3.89 | 4.22 | 2.90 | 4.34 | 4.42 | 4.22 | 4.40 | 3.52 | 2.75 | VIBE | 2026-01-05 |
| Intern Lumina U2: A Multi-Codebook Diffusion Large Language Model for Omni-Visual Understanding and Image Generation | ✓ Link | 3.82 | | | | | | | | | | Intern Lumina U2 (Ascend) | 2026-10-14 |
| UniLiP: Adapting CLIP for Unified Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Editing | ✓ Link | 3.81 | 4.11 | 3.58 | | 4.30 | 3.97 | 4.00 | 4.87 | | | UniLIP-1B | 2025-07-31 |
| Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion-Uni: Elastic Self-Refining Unified Diffusion LLM with Cross-Paradigm On-Policy Distillation | | 3.81 | 4.11 | 4.02 | 2.26 | 4.13 | 3.83 | 4.06 | 4.49 | 3.23 | 4.19 | NLD-Uni-Base | 2026-10-27 |
| Sparse-LaViDa: Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models | | 3.79 | 4.08 | 3.73 | 2.10 | 4.29 | 3.98 | 4.06 | 4.84 | 3.30 | 3.76 | Sparse-LaViDa | 2025-12-16 |
| Unlocking the Potential of Image Editing via Concept Scaling and Dense Supervision | ✓ Link | 3.75 | | | | | | | | | | ConceptEdit1000 w/ Comp (5M) | 2026-08-17 |
| OpenSubject: Leveraging Video-Derived Identity and Diversity Priors for Subject-driven Image Generation and Manipulation | ✓ Link | 3.72 | 4.28 | 3.27 | 2.61 | 3.97 | 3.43 | 4.13 | 4.66 | 3.28 | 4.45 | OpenSubject | 2025-12-09 |
| CrossEdit: Cross-Modal Training Enables Rich Audio-Visual Editing | | 3.72 | 4.20 | 4.29 | 1.74 | 3.61 | 4.32 | 2.82 | 4.44 | 3.57 | 4.96 | CrossEdit | 2026-10-07 |
| Lavida-O: Elastic Large Masked Diffusion Models for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation | ✓ Link | 3.71 | 4.04 | 3.62 | 2.01 | 4.39 | 3.98 | 4.06 | 4.82 | 2.94 | 3.54 | LaViDa-O | 2025-09-23 |
| OmniGen2: Towards Instruction-Aligned Multimodal Generation | ✓ Link | 3.69 | | | | | | | | | | OmniGen2 | 2025-06-23 |
| CrossEdit: Cross-Modal Training Enables Rich Audio-Visual Editing | | 3.69 | 4.37 | 4.06 | 1.48 | 3.61 | 3.43 | 3.88 | 4.54 | 3.22 | 4.48 | CrossEdit-Base | 2026-10-07 |
| Draw-In-Mind: Rebalancing Designer-Painter Roles in Unified Multimodal Models Benefits Image Editing | ✓ Link | 3.67 | 4.09 | 3.47 | 2.30 | 4.00 | 3.43 | 3.87 | 4.92 | 2.85 | 4.08 | DIM-4.6B-Edit | 2025-09-02 |
| BLIP3o-NEXT: Next Frontier of Native Image Generation | ✓ Link | 3.62 | | | | | | | | | | BLIP3o-NEXT (3B) | 2025-10-17 |
| Vision Bridge Transformer at Scale | ✓ Link | 3.55 | | | | | | | | | | ViBT | 2025-11-28 |
| HBridge: H-Shape Bridging of Heterogeneous Experts for Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation | | 3.54 | 3.91 | 3.23 | 2.13 | 3.79 | 3.21 | 3.50 | 4.31 | 3.44 | 4.32 | HBridge | 2025-11-25 |
| Skywork UniPic: Unified Autoregressive Modeling for Visual Understanding and Generation | ✓ Link | 3.49 | 3.66 | 3.51 | 2.06 | 4.31 | 2.77 | 3.77 | 4.76 | 2.56 | 4.04 | Skywork UniPic | 2025-08-05 |
| OneCAT: Decoder-Only Auto-Regressive Model for Unified Understanding and Generation | | 3.43 | 3.65 | 3.70 | 2.42 | 3.92 | 3.00 | 3.79 | 4.61 | 2.23 | 3.53 | OneCAT-3B | 2025-09-03 |
| NoHumansRequired: Autonomous High-Quality Image Editing Triplet Mining | | 3.39 | 4.19 | 3.55 | 1.62 | 3.77 | 3.18 | 3.42 | 4.3 | 2.94 | 3.95 | BAGEL-NHR-EDIT | 2025-07-18 |
| WeMMU: Enhanced Bridging of Vision-Language Models and Diffusion Models via Noisy Query Tokens | | 3.31 | | | | | | | | 2.82 | 3.15 | WeMMU (Stage 3) | 2025-12-02 |
| WeMMU: Enhanced Bridging of Vision-Language Models and Diffusion Models via Noisy Query Tokens | | 3.30 | | | | | | | | 2.78 | 3.17 | WeMMU (Stage 4) | 2025-12-02 |
| UniWorld-V1: High-Resolution Semantic Encoders for Unified Visual Understanding and Generation | ✓ Link | 3.26 | 3.82 | 3.64 | 2.27 | 3.47 | 3.24 | 2.99 | 4.21 | 2.96 | 2.74 | UniWorld-V1 | 2025-06-03 |
| TBAC-UniImage: Unified Understanding and Generation by Ladder-Side Diffusion Tuning | ✓ Link | 3.25 | 3.79 | 3.20 | 1.59 | 3.85 | 2.54 | 3.91 | 4.52 | 2.38 | 3.52 | TBAC-UniImage-3B | 2025-08-11 |
| Emerging Properties in Unified Multimodal Pretraining | ✓ Link | 3.20 | 3.56 | 3.31 | 1.70 | 3.30 | 2.62 | 3.24 | 4.49 | 2.38 | 4.17 | BAGEL | 2025-05-20 |
| Step1X-Edit: A Practical Framework for General Image Editing | ✓ Link | 3.06 | 3.88 | 3.14 | 1.76 | 3.40 | 2.41 | 3.16 | 4.63 | 2.64 | 2.52 | Step1X-Edit | 2025-04-24 |
| In-Context Editing: Learning Knowledge from Self-Induced Distributions | ✓ Link | 3.05 | 3.58 | 3.39 | 1.73 | 3.15 | 2.93 | 3.08 | 3.84 | 2.04 | 3.68 | ICEdit | 2024-06-17 |
| Rethinking UMM Visual Generation: Masked Modeling for Efficient Image-Only Pre-training | ✓ Link | 2.82 | 3.84 | 2.37 | 2.12 | 2.60 | 1.30 | 3.14 | 4.41 | 1.80 | 3.78 | IOMM-B (image-only pre-trained) | 2026-03-17 |
| UltraEdit: Instruction-based Fine-Grained Image Editing at Scale | ✓ Link | 2.70 | 3.44 | 2.81 | 2.13 | 2.96 | 1.45 | 2.83 | 3.76 | 1.91 | 2.98 | UltraEdit | 2024-07-07 |
| Rethinking UMM Visual Generation: Masked Modeling for Efficient Image-Only Pre-training | ✓ Link | 2.61 | 3.18 | 2.17 | 1.92 | 2.70 | 1.17 | 3.36 | 4.39 | 1.49 | 3.14 | IOMM-B (text-image pair pre-trained) | 2026-03-17 |
| AnyEdit: Edit Any Knowledge Encoded in Language Models | | 2.45 | 3.18 | 2.95 | 1.88 | 2.47 | 2.23 | 2.24 | 2.85 | 1.56 | 2.65 | AnyEdit | 2025-02-08 |
| Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors? | | 2.19 | 2.94 | 2.02 | 1.71 | 2.18 | 1.50 | 1.71 | 2.53 | 2.06 | 3.10 | IF-Edit | 2025-11-24 |
| InstructPix2Pix: Learning to Follow Image Editing Instructions | ✓ Link | 1.88 | 2.45 | 1.83 | 1.44 | 2.01 | 1.50 | 1.44 | 3.55 | 1.2 | 1.46 | Instruct-Pix2Pix | 2022-11-17 |
| MagicBrush: A Manually Annotated Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing | ✓ Link | 1.83 | 2.84 | 1.58 | 1.51 | 1.97 | 1.58 | 1.75 | 2.38 | 1.62 | 1.22 | MagicBrush | 2023-06-16 |