PC-Edit: Prompt-Contrastive Region Discovery and Region-Guided Editing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21318v1
• Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:42:03 GMT
• Title: PC-Edit: Prompt-Contrastive Region Discovery and Region-Guided Editing
• Abstract summary: PC-Edit is a prompt-contrastive framework for training-free MM-DiT editing.<n>We show that PC-Edit achieves the best editing quality and background preservation among methods without user-specified edit regions.
• Score: 6.411145731142763
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Replacing an object with one that differs in category or shape requires complete source removal, natural target formation unconstrained by the source silhouette, and preservation of unrelated content. Existing training-free editors either localize edits from terminal predictions under source and target prompts or preserve unrelated content through spatially unselective source-feature reuse without explicit region discovery. Before reaching the terminal predictions, prompt-induced semantic differences undergo additional network transformations that may obscure their spatial localization, reducing localization precision. Spatially unselective feature reuse forces a trade-off between edit completeness and background preservation. Therefore, we propose PC-Edit, a prompt-contrastive framework for training-free MM-DiT editing. PC-Edit contrasts the image-token attention outputs under the source and target prompts, capturing prompt-induced semantic differences directly where text-conditioned information is delivered to image tokens. The same contrast identifies a source-erasure region during inversion and a target-emergence region during denoising. Their union suppresses source remnants while allowing the target object to form naturally. PC-Edit further couples region discovery and background preservation within each sampling step by estimating the current edit region from preceding attention blocks and immediately injecting cached source K/V features outside it in subsequent blocks, thereby protecting unrelated content before the latent update. Experiments on PIE-Bench and our EditRegion-Bench, with human-verified edit-region annotations for single- and multi-object addition and replacement, show that PC-Edit achieves the best editing quality and background preservation among methods without user-specified edit regions.

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