Overview

Agentic image generation studies systems that plan and act over multiple steps instead of producing an image from a prompt in one pass. Common approaches use vision-language models as planners or critics, coordinate specialized agents, or call tools for web search, image editing, code-based layouts, and workflow routing; some are training-free, while others use supervised fine-tuning and reinforcement learning. Work targets challenges such as object counts, spatial relationships, factual details, personalization, and editable designs, with evaluations including GenEval, WISE, and task-specific benchmarks. A central tension is how to make iterative decisions and verification reliable without adding excessive latency, cost, or unwanted changes to parts of an image that are already correct.

Latest papers

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43 papers9 papers in the last four weeks, up 80% on the four weeks before. 0.1% of all new papers.

  1. ImageRSI: Verification-Driven Recursive Self-Improvement for Agentic Image Generation

    Oct 23, 2026Shuo Han, Zhilin Wang, Peng Ling +5Agentic Image GenerationImage Generation

  2. Agentic Image Generation in the Wild

    Oct 16, 2026Yifan Li, Bowen Qin, Kun Zhou +8Agentic Image Generation

  3. How Far Can Coding Agents Go in Visual Generation?

    Oct 13, 2026Hengguang Zhou, Yuanhao Ban, Jiaqi Feng +3Agentic Image GenerationCoding Agents

  4. Stride: Scale-Aware Multi-Agent Evolutionary Refinement for Infographic Generation

    Oct 9, 2026Yan Zhou, Yang YangAgentic Image GenerationControllable Image Generation

  5. Form and Void: Entangled Composition through an Autonomous AI Agent

    Oct 1, 2026Shiwen Wang, Jian Yang, Xu Wang +2Image GenerationCompositional Image Generation

  6. Personalized Image Generation with Reasoning and Reflection

    Sep 30, 2026Bo Ni, Ngoc N. Tran, Qinwen Ge +10Image GenerationAgentic Image Generation

  7. PainterBench: A Figural Divergent-Thinking Benchmark for Tool-Using Language Models

    Sep 28, 2026Shane K. A. Dalumura Hettige, Jonas OppenlaenderCreativity AssessmentAgentic Image Generation

  8. I Am AdMan: A Pipeline for Automatic Generation of Personalized Advertising Imagery

    Sep 11, 2026Victor Kolominsky-Rabas, Leopold Müller, Claudius Budcke +1Conditional Image GenerationImage Generation

  9. Agentic Visual Generation: From Generative Models to Agentic Control

    Sep 6, 2026Yinming Huang, Shuyuan Tu, Xi Yan +7Agentic Image GenerationControllable Image Generation

  10. Editable Visual Design

    Sep 3, 2026Junyan Ye, Wei Liu, Dongzhi Jiang +9Agentic Image Generation

  11. Figures as Programs: Recursive Generation of Editable Scientific Figures

    Sep 1, 2026Yepeng Liu, Dasen Dai, Chengzhi Liu +7Scientific VisualizationProgram Synthesis

  12. FocusGen: Expanding Visual Design Exploration with a Simulated Focus Group of Persona Agents

    Aug 28, 2026Jaewon Choi, Helena Vasconcelos, Hyun Lee +3Persona-Conditioned GenerationAgentic Image Generation

  13. GenRouter: Unified Workflow Routing for Agentic Image Generation

    Aug 17, 2026Harold Haodong Chen, Zhiyu Hou, Wen-Jie Shu +4Agentic Image GenerationAgentic Workflows

  14. DAC-Pose: Dual-Agent Collaborative Framework for Pose-Guided Human Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Haotian Yang, Zhile Yang, Huiyu Zhou +1Conditional Image GenerationAgentic Image Generation

  15. ToolArtist: Tool-Using Unified Multimodal Models for Agentic Image Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Jiahao Zhao, Xiaomin Yu, Zhongxiang Sun +5Unified Multimodal ModelsAgentic Image Generation

  16. SymbOmni: Evolving Agentic Omni Models via Symbolic Concept Learning

    Jul 13, 2026Jinxiu Liu, Jianru Li, Tanqing Kuang +4Memory-Augmented Neural NetworksAgentic Image Generation

  17. Search Beyond What Can Be Taught: Evolving the Knowledge Boundary in Agentic Visual Generation

    Jul 6, 2026Haozhe Wang, Weijia Feng, Jinpeng Yu +8Image GenerationAgentic Image Generation

  18. CanvasAgent: Enabling Complex Image Creation and Editing via Visual Tool Orchestration

    Jul 6, 2026Hairui Zhu, Yiying Yang, Tengjin Weng +5Tool Use in VLMsText-Guided Image Editing

  19. COMFYCLAW: Self-Evolving Skill Harnesses for Image Generation Workflows

    Jul 2, 2026Zongxia Li, Dawei Liu, Fuxiao Liu +6Image GenerationAgentic Image Generation

  20. A Test-time Actor-Critic Approach to News Images Generation

    Jun 19, 2026Damianos Galanopoulos, Vasileios MezarisConditional Image GenerationImage Generation

  21. InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Dian Zheng, Harry Lee, Manyuan Zhang +4Agentic Image GenerationMultimodal Generation

  22. MetaPoint: Unlocking Precise Spatial Control in Agentic Visual Generation

    Jun 3, 2026Dewei Zhou, Xinyu Huang, Xun Wang +6Compositional Image GenerationAgentic Image Generation

  23. MemoGen: Can Past Experience Improve Future Text-to-Image Generation?

    Jun 2, 2026Wenshuo Chen, Kuimou Yu, Bowen Tian +10T2I GenerationImage Generation

  24. OctoT2I: A Self-Evolving Agentic Text-to-Image Router

    Jun 1, 2026Xu Jiang, Bin Chen, Gehui Li +3T2I GenerationAgentic Image Generation