ImagenWorld: Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks
Authors: name: Samin Mahdizadeh Sani, name: Max Ku, name: Nima Jamali, name: Matina Mahdizadeh Sani, name: Paria Khoshtab, name: Wei-Chieh Sun, name: Parnian Fazel, name: Zhi Rui Tam, name: Thomas Chong, name: Edisy Kin Wai Chan, name: Donald Wai Tong Tsang, name: Chiao-Wei Hsu, name: Ting Wai Lam, name: Ho Yin Sam Ng, name: Chiafeng Chu, name: Chak-Wing Mak, name: Keming Wu, name: Hiu Tung Wong, name: Yik Chun Ho, name: Chi Ruan, name: Zhuofeng Li, name: I-Sheng Fang, name: Shih-Ying Yeh, name: Ho Kei Cheng, name: Ping Nie, name: Wenhu Chen
Organization: Comfy Org

Advances in diffusion, autoregressive, and hybrid models have enabled high-quality image synthesis for tasks such as text-to-image, editing, and reference-guided composition. Yet, existing benchmarks remain limited, either focus on isolated tasks, cover only narrow domains, or provide opaque scores without explaining failure modes. We introduce ImagenWorld, a benchmark of 3.6K condition sets spanning six core tasks (generation and editing, with single or multiple references) and six topical domains (artworks, photorealistic images, information graphics, textual graphics, computer graphics, and screenshots). The benchmark is supported by 20K fine-grained human annotations and an explainable evaluation schema that tags localized object-level and segment-level errors, complementing automated VLM-based metrics. Our large-scale evaluation of 14 models yields several insights: (1) models typically struggle more in editing tasks than in generation tasks, especially in local edits. (2) models excel in artistic and photorealistic settings but struggle with symbolic and text-heavy domains such as screenshots and information graphics. (3) closed-source systems lead overall, while targeted data curation (e.g., Qwen-Image) narrows the gap in text-heavy cases. (4) modern VLM-based metrics achieve Kendall accuracies up to 0.79, approximating human ranking, but fall short of fine-grained, explainable error attribution. ImagenWorld provides both a rigorous benchmark and a diagnostic tool to advance robust image generation.