# GoT: Unleashing Reasoning Capability of Multimodal Large Language Model for Visual Generation and Editing
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Rongyao Fang<sup>1*</sup>, Chengqi Duan<sup>2*</sup>, Kun Wang<sup>3</sup>, Linjiang Huang<sup>6</sup>, Hao Li<sup>1,4</sup>, Shilin Yan, Hao Tian<sup>3</sup>, Xingyu Zeng<sup>3</sup>, Rui Zhao<sup>3</sup>, Jifeng Dai<sup>4,5</sup>, Xihui Liu<sup>2</sup>, Hongsheng Li<sup>1</sup>

<sup>1</sup>CUHK MMLab, <sup>2</sup>HKU MMLab, <sup>3</sup>SenseTime, <sup>4</sup>Shanghai AI Laboratory, <sup>5</sup>Tsinghua University, <sup>6</sup>Beihang University

*Equal contribution
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  <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/xxx" target="_blank"><b>Paper</b></a> •
  <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a> •
  <a href="#released-datasets">Datasets</a> •
  <a href="#released-model-got-framework">Model</a> •
  <a href="#results">Results</a> •
  <a href="https://huggingface.co/LucasFang/GoT-6B" target="_blank">🤗 Hugging Face</a> •
  <a href="#license">License</a>
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## Introduction

We present **Generation Chain-of-Thought (GoT)**, a novel paradigm that enables generation and editing through an explicit language reasoning process before outputting images. This approach transforms conventional text-to-image generation and editing into a reasoning-guided framework that analyzes semantic relationships and spatial arrangements.

GoT pioneers a new direction for reasoning-driven visual generation and editing, producing images that better align with human intent through:

- **Semantic-Spatial Reasoning**: Integrates both semantic understanding and explicit spatial coordinates
- **Unified Framework**: Handles both image generation and editing with the same architecture

## Released Datasets

| Dataset | Link | Amount |
|---------|------|--------|
| **Laion-Aesthetics-High-Resolution-GoT** | [🤗 HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/LucasFang/Laion-Aesthetics-High-Resolution-GoT) | 3.77M  |
| **JourneyDB-GoT** | [🤗 HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/LucasFang/JourneyDB-GoT) | 4.09M  |
| **OmniEdit-GoT** | [🤗 HuggingFace](https://huggingface.co/datasets/LucasFang/OmniEdit-GoT) | 736K   |

## Dataset Features

### Laion-Aesthetics-High-Resolution-GoT
- 3.77 million High-quality images filtered for sizes larger than 512 pixels from Laion-Aesthetics
- Prompts and GoT descriptions from Qwen2-VL
- Prompts averaging 110.81 characters
- GoT descriptions averaging 811.56 characters
- 3.78 bounding boxes per image on average

### JourneyDB-GoT
- 4.09 million high-quality AI-generated images
- Prompts and GoT descriptions from Qwen2-VL
- Prompts averaging 149.78 characters
- GoT descriptions averaging 906.01 characters
- 4.09 bounding boxes per image on average
- Please download the images from [JourneyDB dataset](https://opendatalab.com/OpenDataLab/JourneyDB/tree/main/raw/JourneyDB/train/imgs)

### OmniEdit-GoT
- 736K high-quality image editing samples from OmniEdit
- Diverse editing operations (addition, removal, swap, attribute changes, style transfer)
- Detailed reasoning chains with step-by-step editing processes
- Precise spatial coordinate annotations for editing regions
- Please download the images from [OmniEdit dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/TIGER-Lab/OmniEdit-Filtered-1.2M)

## Model Features

Our GoT framework consists of two key components:

1. **Semantic-Spatial MLLM**: Generates detailed reasoning chains with spatial information using Qwen2.5-VL as the backbone
2. **SSGM Diffusion Module**: Leverages the semantic guidance, spatial layouts, and reference images to create high-quality visual outputs

The Semantic-Spatial Guidance Module (SSGM) combines three guidance pathways:
- **Semantic Guidance**: Captures relationships and attributes
- **Spatial Guidance**: Controls precise object placement
- **Reference Guidance**: Provides context for editing tasks

## Results

### Text-to-Image Generation

GoT achieves state-of-the-art performance on the GenEval benchmark, particularly excelling in composition tasks:

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| Method | Architecture | Overall | Single Obj. | Two Obj. | Counting | Colors | Position | Attr. Binding |
|--------|--------------|---------|-------------|----------|----------|--------|----------|---------------|
| SD-XL | Unet+CLIP | 0.55 | 0.98 | 0.74 | 0.39 | 0.85 | 0.15 | 0.23 |
| SD3 | MMDIT+CLIP+T5 | 0.62 | 0.98 | 0.74 | 0.63 | 0.67 | 0.34 | 0.36 |
| Emu3-Gen | Autoregressive | 0.54 | 0.98 | 0.71 | 0.34 | 0.81 | 0.17 | 0.21 |
| Janus | Autoregressive | 0.61 | 0.97 | 0.68 | 0.30 | 0.84 | 0.46 | 0.42 |
| JanusFlow | Autoregressive | 0.63 | 0.97 | 0.59 | 0.45 | 0.83 | 0.53 | 0.42 |
| **GoT Framework** | Unet+Qwen2.5-VL | **0.64** | **0.99** | 0.69 | **0.67** | **0.85** | 0.34 | 0.27 |

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### Image Editing

Our approach also demonstrates superior performance on image editing benchmarks:

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| Method | Emu-Edit |  | ImagenHub | Reason-Edit |
|--------|----------|--------|-----------|------------|
|        | CLIP-I   | CLIP-T | GPT-4o Eval. | GPT-4o Eval. |
| IP2P | 0.834 | 0.219 | 0.308 | 0.286 |
| MagicBrush | 0.838 | 0.222 | 0.513 | 0.334 |
| SEED-X | 0.825 | 0.272 | 0.166 | 0.239 |
| CosXL-Edit | 0.860 | 0.274 | 0.464 | 0.325 |
| **GoT Framework** | **0.864** | **0.276** | **0.533** | 0.561 |

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## Usage

### Dependencies
- Python >= 3.8 (Recommend to use [Anaconda](https://www.anaconda.com/download/#linux))
- [PyTorch >=2.0.1](https://pytorch.org/)
- NVIDIA GPU + [CUDA](https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads)

### Installation
Clone the repo and install dependent packages

  ```bash
  git clone git@github.com:rongyaofang/GoT.git
  cd GoT
  pip install -r requirements.txt
  ```

### Model Weights
Place the required model weights in the `./pretrained` directory as follows:

1. GoT-6B model weights
2. [Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct)
3. [Stable Diffusion XL Base 1.0](https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0)

Your directory structure should match the following:

```
GoT
├── pretrained
│   ├── GoT-6B
│   ├── Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct
│   └── stable-diffusion-xl-base-1.0
├── ...
```

## License

This code is released under the MIT License.