ChronoEdit

Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation

Jay Zhangjie Wu*    Xuanchi Ren*    Tianchang Shen    Tianshi Cao    Kai He
Yifan Lu    Ruiyuan Gao    Enze Xie    Shiyi Lan    Jose M. Alvarez
Jun Gao    Sanja Fidler    Zian Wang    Huan Ling*† ^{* equal contribution    † corresponding author}

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TL;DR: ChronoEdit reframes image editing as a video generation task, using input and edited images as start/end frames to leverage pretrained video models with temporal consistency. A temporal reasoning stage introduces reasoning tokens to ensure physically plausible edits and visualize the editing trajectory.

🚧 Code and Models Coming Soon 🚧

Citation

@article{wu2025chronoedit,
    title={ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation},
    author={Wu, Jay Zhangjie and Ren, Xuanchi and Shen, Tianchang and Cao, Tianshi and He, Kai and Lu, Yifan and Gao, Ruiyuan and Xie, Enze and Lan, Shiyi and Alvarez, Jose M. and Gao, Jun and Fidler, Sanja and Wang, Zian and Ling, Huan},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04290},
    year={2025}
}