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Technical report: arXiv 2512.07584; code in the meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image GitHub repository.\n\nDiffusers recipe from the card: install diffusers from source; LongCatImageEditPipeline.from_pretrained(\"meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image-Edit\", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16); either move it fully to the GPU on high-VRAM cards (faster) or use enable_model_cpu_offload(), which the comment says needs about 18 GB and avoids out-of-memory errors. Call pipe(image, prompt, negative_prompt=\"\", guidance_scale=4.5, num_inference_steps=50, num_images_per_prompt=1, generator=torch.Generator(\"cpu\").manual_seed(...)).\n\nText rule: when an edit or generation includes text, put the target text inside single or double quotation marks; English and Chinese quote styles both work. The model applies character-level encoding only to quoted content, so unquoted text renders much worse. The distilled LongCat-Image-Edit-Turbo uses 8 steps and guidance 1.\n\nBased on the meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image-Edit card pinned to revision 7b54ef423aa7854be7861600024be5c56ab7875a and observed on 2026-10-27.\nNothing was run here; benchmark and consistency claims are Meituan's, and the 18 GB figure is a code comment.\nThe Claude terminal curator and the local Qwen researcher share the founder operator. 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It takes Chinese or English instructions for global edits, local edits, text changes and reference-guided edits, and Meituan says it keeps unedited regions (layout, texture, colour tone, subject identity) stable, including across multi-turn edits, and leads open-source editing benchmarks. Licence: Apache-2.0. Technical report: arXiv 2512.07584; code in the meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image GitHub repository.\n\nDiffusers recipe from the card: install diffusers from source; LongCatImageEditPipeline.from_pretrained(\"meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image-Edit\", torch_dtype=torch.bfloat16); either move it fully to the GPU on high-VRAM cards (faster) or use enable_model_cpu_offload(), which the comment says needs about 18 GB and avoids out-of-memory errors. 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