Title: LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers
Venue: NeurIPS 2025
Accepted: yes
Keywords: lora

image editing

t2i

flux
Abstract: We introduce LoRAShop, the first framework for multi-concept image generation and editing with LoRA models. LoRAShop builds on a key observation about the feature interaction patterns inside Flux-style diffusion transformers: concept-specific transformer features activate spatially coherent regions early in the denoising process. We harness this observation to derive a disentangled latent mask for each concept in a prior forward pass and blend the corresponding LoRA weights only within regions bounding the concepts to be personalized. The resulting edits seamlessly integrate multiple subjects or styles into the original scene while preserving global context, lighting, and fine details. Our experiments  demonstrate that LoRAShop delivers better identity preservation compared to baselines. By eliminating retraining and external constraints, LoRAShop turns personalized diffusion models into a practical `photoshop-with-LoRAs' tool and opens new avenues for compositional visual storytelling and rapid creative iteration.


Peer reviews:
comments: SUMMARY:
To enhance the consistency of multiple IDs in image-to-image generation and mitigate the coupling effect, the author proposes leveraging the inherent semantic advantages of DiT—specifically, using cross-attention to first obtain masks for each ID to bind the corresponding LoRA. This is a simple yet effective approach, and its extension to other tasks demonstrates the robustness of the method.

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Strengths: The system can conveniently leverage the abundant LoRA components within the community, demonstrating strong extensibility.

Weaknesses: In the quantitative results, the authors only employed identity LoRA, and the qualitative experiments primarily focused on facial images. The effectiveness on other categories remains unclear.

QUESTIONS:
1. Why must it be the LoRA structure? Have other options been tried? 
2. It feels like the test data is insufficient—only 15 identity LoRAs. We would prefer to see more diverse results. 
3. The authors conducted ablation experiments on the mask extraction effect across different layers. Has something like ConceptAttention been attempted? Their method appears to be more robust.

LIMITATIONS:
My primary concerns are twofold:
1) The paper predominantly focuses on facial features, leaving the effectiveness on other categories unclear;
2) Additional mask acquisition approaches should be explored, similar to ConceptAttention.
TITLE: Official Review
CLARITY: 3
IMPACT: 3
ORIGINALITY: 2
DATE: 2025-07-01

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comments: SUMMARY:
This paper proposes LoRAShop, a novel training-free framework for multi-concept image generation and editing using pre-trained LoRA. The overall framework first extract disentangled spatial priors for each concept. Then, these priors are then used to guide residual feature blending. Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of LoRAShop on various tasks.

STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:
Strengths:

1. Sufficient Experiments.
2. Generalization. The proposed framework can support various tasks. 
3. Novelty. Propose a training-free framework without tuning the LoRA adapters.
4. Practical Impact. The training free nature makes the framework efficient, supports both generated and real-image editing.

Weaknesses:

1. Visual Clarity. Figure 2 can be designed more accurate to illustrate the overall framework.
2. Limitation of Distangled Masks. The extracted mask may inherit biases from the 3x3 Gassian kernel.

QUESTIONS:
Questions: 

1. Could the processing in lines 133–135 potentially lead to additional error?
2. How would the method perform on overlapping concepts (e.g. a couple embracing each other)
3. Could the framework benefit from the learned hyperparameters, such as $\tau$.

LIMITATIONS:
None
TITLE: Official Review
CLARITY: 3
IMPACT: 4
ORIGINALITY: 3
DATE: 2025-07-02

{"IS_META_REVIEW": false, "comments": "SUMMARY:\nLoRAshop devises a method for applying the combined effect of multiple LORA customziations on the same synthesized image. It operates by narrowing the effect of a specific LORA to a masked region of the generated image.  LORAshop defines a method for automatically deriving a mask from a \"subject prior\" by running the generation process up to an intermediate timestamp, then ensuring that the mask corresponding to each LORA does not overlap; then subsequently restricting the action of each LORA to a corresponding mask.  The paper conducts evaluations including human evaluations compared to several baseline methods that are capable of combining multiple custom subjects in an image.\n\nSTRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES:\nStrengths: the paper's method is simple, understandable. The paper selects a reasonable set of baseline methods to compare to, and benchmarks suggest that it performs well against baselines.\n\nWeaknesses: the paper does not measure performance on difficult multi-subject tasks such as where subjects overlap in the same region of the target image. In particular, by imposing the assumption that different subjects should correspond to non-overlapping masks, the paper implicitly raises the question of whether it suffers from the \"bitter lesson\" in which its performance win might be too narrowly tailored and will suffer compared to previous methods such as OmniGen and MS-Diffusion that apply learning methods to more flexibly combine mutiple subjects. This potential drawback should be discussed in detail, and measured. The paper does not appear to measure any tasks in which the subjects might overlap. It also does not show any failure cases in detail. Since many of the baseline methods attempt to address these more-difficult cases, the paper should compare its performance on this basis\n\nThe paper would be significantly strenthened if it discussed its limited scope in more detail, showing both wins and losses and discussing tradeoffs. Instead, by not investigating difficult cases, and exploring potential disadvantages, it effectively overclaims by implicitly claiming unvarnished superiority over other methods that have previously attempted more difficult forms of the multi-subject customzation task.\n\nQUESTIONS:\n[My original questions are below.  I have revised the rating in light of the author's response.]\n\n* What is the performance of the method (especially compared to non-explicit-masking to baselines) when the multiple customized subjects have overlapping effects? For example, when one subject says is \"as shown as a decoration on a vase\" and another subject is \"the person looks like Brad Pitt\"; does the method succeed in drawing Brad Pitt on a vase?\n* Some previous mask-oriented methods have previously focused on good performance in the presence of occlusions. Has this paper tested performance on these cases?  How does it do, and how does it compare to the previous occlusion-friendly methods?\n* The paper mentions some failure cases. What do these look like?  Why aren't examples shown and discussed in detail?\n\nLIMITATIONS:\nAlthough a few words are given about the technical limitations of the paper, the scope of the paper is very limited when compared to baseline methods that, for example, previously combined multiple subjects using open-text instruction descriptions instead of masks (like Omnigen) or that attempted to combine subjects that could overlap and affect the same pixels of the target image (like MS-Diffusion).  This limitation should be explored in more detail, with failure cases comopared to previous mthods explicitly measured and shown. The method seems like it might be superior for a narrow and important use-case, but this narrow scope should be clarified and put in context with previous work that may be superior for other uses.", "TITLE": "Official Review", "RECOMMENDATION": 5, "REVIEWER_CONFIDENCE": 3, "CLARITY": 3, "IMPACT": 2, "ORIGINALITY": 2, "DATE": "2025-07-04"}