LongCat-Image-Edit

Image: LongCat-Image

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07584 https://github.com/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image https://github.com/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Flash-Chat/blob/main/figures/wechat_official_accounts.png https://x.com/Meituan_LongCat

[//]: # ( https://meituan-longcat.github.io/LongCat-Image/) https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image-Dev https://huggingface.co/meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image-Edit

Introduction#

We introduce LongCat-Image-Edit, the image editing version of Longcat-Image. LongCat-Image-Edit supports bilingual (Chinese-English) editing, achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source image editing models, delivering leading instruction-following and image quality with superior visual consistency.

Image: LongCat-Image-Edit model

Key Features#

• 🌟 Superior Precise Editing: LongCat-Image-Edit supports various editing tasks, such as global editing, local editing, text modification, and reference-guided editing. It has strong semantic understanding capabilities and can perform precise editing according to instructions.
• 🌟 Consistency Preservation: LongCat-Image-Edit has strong consistency preservation capabilities, specifically scrutinizes whether attributes in non-edited regions, such as layout, texture, color tone, and subject identity, remain invariant unless targeted by the instruction, is well demonstrated in multi-turn editing.
• 🌟 Strong Benchmark Performance: LongCat-Image-Edit achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in image editing tasks while significantly improving model inference efficiency, especially among open-source image editing models.

🎨 Showcase#

Image: LongCat-Image-Edit gallery.

Quick Start#

Hugging Face app

Installation#

pip install git+https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers

Run Image Editing#

Caution. 📝 Special Handling for Text Rendering

For both Text-to-Image and Image Editing tasks involving text generation, you must enclose the target text within single or double quotation marks (both English '...' / "..." and Chinese ‘...’ / “...” styles are supported).

Reasoning: The model utilizes a specialized character-level encoding strategy specifically for quoted content. Failure to use explicit quotation marks prevents this mechanism from triggering, which will severely compromise the text rendering capability.

import torch
from PIL import Image
from diffusers import LongCatImageEditPipeline

if __name__ == '__main__':
    device = torch.device('cuda')

    pipe = LongCatImageEditPipeline.from_pretrained("meituan-longcat/LongCat-Image-Edit", torch_dtype= torch.bfloat16 )
    # pipe.to(device, torch.bfloat16)  # Uncomment for high VRAM devices (Faster inference)
    pipe.enable_model_cpu_offload()  # Offload to CPU to save VRAM (Required ~18 GB); slower but prevents OOM

    img = Image.open('assets/test.png').convert('RGB')
    prompt = '将猫变成狗'
    image = pipe(
        img,
        prompt,
        negative_prompt='',
        guidance_scale=4.5,
        num_inference_steps=50,
        num_images_per_prompt=1,
        generator=torch.Generator("cpu").manual_seed(43)
    ).images[0]

    image.save('./edit_example.png')