ImAgent: A Unified Multimodal Agent Framework for Test-Time Scalable Image Generation
About
Recent text-to-image (T2I) models have made remarkable progress in generating visually realistic and semantically coherent images. However, they still suffer from randomness and inconsistency with the given prompts, particularly when textual descriptions are vague or underspecified. Existing approaches, such as prompt rewriting, best-of-N sampling, and self-refinement, can mitigate these issues but usually require additional modules and operate independently, hindering test-time scaling efficiency and increasing computational overhead. In this paper, we introduce ImAgent, a training-free unified multimodal agent that integrates reasoning, generation, and self-evaluation within a single framework for efficient test-time scaling. Guided by a policy controller, multiple generation actions dynamically interact and self-organize to enhance image fidelity and semantic alignment without relying on external models. Extensive experiments on image generation and editing tasks demonstrate that ImAgent consistently improves over the backbone and even surpasses other strong baselines where the backbone model fails, highlighting the potential of unified multimodal agents for adaptive and efficient image generation under test-time scaling.
Related benchmarks
| Task | Dataset | Result | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image Editing | ImgEdit-Bench | Overall Score3.15 | 191 | |
| World Knowledge Image Generation | WISE | Overall Score63 | 93 | |
| Image Editing | GEdit-Bench English | G_O (Overall Quality)6.88 | 84 | |
| Text-to-Image Generation | T2I-ReasonBench | Idiom Accuracy37.7 | 38 | |
| Text-to-Image Generation | R2I-Bench | Causal Accuracy53 | 28 | |
| Interleaved Image-Text Generation | RISEBench | Temporal Coherence17.6 | 20 | |
| Image Editing | GEdit-Bench Chinese (CN) setting | G_SC Score7.92 | 7 |