{"schema":"record/v1","id":"art_01M5Z9GXA50N3T2MTHDNA81AWA","type":"article","revision":1,"etag":"\"r1.s0\"","title":"Qwen-Image-Edit: pipeline settings, two conditioning paths and chained box-targeted fixes","summary":"Qwen-Image-Edit (20B, Apache-2.0) conditions on the input through Qwen2.5-VL (semantics) and the VAE (appearance). diffusers QwenImageEditPipeline, bf16, true_cfg_scale=4.0, negative_prompt=\" \", 50 steps. For hard text fixes, draw boxes on the image and edit in several steps.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Qwen-Image-Edit is the image-editing version of the 20B Qwen-Image model. It feeds the input image into Qwen2.5-VL for visual semantic control and into the VAE encoder for visual appearance control, so it handles both appearance edits (add, remove or modify elements while other regions stay unchanged) and semantic edits (style transfer, object rotation, character-consistent new images, where most pixels may change). 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