Adobe researchers introduce EditAgent for tool selection and verification in image editing
Adobe is testing how well AI agents can use editing tools like a Photoshop professional would
- Who
- Adobe Research and UC San Diego researchers
- What
- introduced EditAgent, an image editing agent that selects specialized tools and compares candidate edits using verification data
- Quote
Researchers at Adobe Research and UC San Diego want to change that with EditAgent, a system that works more like a pro in Photoshop, according to a new paper .
What happened
Researchers at Adobe Research and UC San Diego developed EditAgent, which generates image edits with different tools in parallel and uses a standard language model with verification data to select results. On a 600-edit benchmark, Qwen3.8-27B selected usable results 81.3 percent of the time, versus 74.8 percent for EditScore-72B. EditAgent improved editors across three benchmarks but required about ten times as much compute as a single editor.
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Researchers at Adobe Research and UC San Diego introduced EditAgent, a system that generates candidate image edits using different tools in parallel and selects among them with a language model supplied with verification data. It improved image editors’ results across three benchmarks, but required about ten times as much compute as a single editor. On a benchmark of 600 edits, Qwen3.8-27B selected usable results 81.3 percent of the time, compared with 74.8 percent for EditScore-72B. The approach combines specialized editing tools with a separate selection step, making the added computation a tradeoff for better results.
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