I2EBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Image Editing

Yiwei Ma, Jiayi Ji, Ke Ye, Weihuang Lin, Zhibin Wang +4 more
2/3/2026

No official code found. Best implementation: cocoshe/I2EBench (35 stars, Apache-2.0, last commit 2025-12-09).

Abstract

Significant progress has been made in the field of Instruction-based Image Editing (IIE). However, evaluating these models poses a significant challenge. A crucial requirement in this field is the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation benchmark for accurately assessing editing results and providing valuable insights for its further development. In response to this need, we propose I2EBench, a comprehensive benchmark designed to automatically evaluate the quality of edited images produced by IIE models from multiple dimensions. I2EBench consists of 2,000+ images for editing, along with 4,000+ corresponding original and diverse instructions. It offers three distinctive characteristics: 1) Comprehensive Evaluation Dimensions: I2EBench comprises 16 evaluation dimensions that cover both high-level and low-level aspects, providing a comprehensive assessment of each IIE model. 2) Human Perception Alignment: To ensure the alignment of our benchmark with human perception, we conducted an extensive user study for each evaluation dimension. 3) Valuable Research Insights: By analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of existing IIE models across the 16 dimensions, we offer valuable research insights to guide future development in the field. We will open-source I2EBench, including all instructions, input images, human annotations, edited images from all evaluated methods, and a simple script for evaluating the results from new IIE models. The code, dataset and generated images from all IIE models are provided in github: https://github.com/cocoshe/I2EBench.

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[NeurIPS'24] I2EBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Image Editing

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@article{ma2026iebench,
  title  = {I2EBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Instruction-based Image Editing},
  author = {Yiwei Ma and Jiayi Ji and Ke Ye and Weihuang Lin and Zhibin Wang and Yonghan Zheng and Qiang Zhou and Xiaoshuai Sun and Rongrong Ji},
  year   = {2026},
  eprint = {2408.14180},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  doi    = {10.48550/arXiv.2408.14180},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.14180},
  journal = {NEURIPS 2024 2024}
}

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