Title: LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
Primary area: generative models
Keywords: Diffusion, DiT, Image Editing

Abstract: The reliance on implicit point matching via attention has become a core bottleneck in drag-based editing, resulting in a fundamental compromise on weakened inversion strength and costly test-time optimization (TTO). 
This compromise severely limits the generative capabilities, suppressing high-fidelity inpainting and text-guided creation. In this paper, we introduce LazyDrag, the first drag-based image editing method for Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers, which directly eliminates the reliance on implicit point matching. In concrete terms, our method generates an explicit correspondence map from user drag inputs as a reliable reference to boost the attention control. 
This reliable reference opens the potential for a stable full-strength inversion process, which is the first in the drag-based editing task. It obviates the necessity for TTO and unlocks the generative capability of models. Therefore, LazyDrag naturally unifies precise geometric control with text guidance, enabling complex edits that were previously out of reach: opening the mouth of a dog and inpainting its interior, generating new objects like a ``tennis ball'', or for ambiguous drags, making context-aware changes like moving hands into pockets. Moreover, LazyDrag supports multi-round edits with simultaneous move and scale operations. Evaluated on DragBench, our method outperforms baselines in drag accuracy and perceptual quality, as validated by mean distances, VIEScore and user studies. LazyDrag not only sets new state-of-the-art performance, but also paves a new way to editing paradigms. Code will be open-sourced.

TL;DR: LazyDrag is the first drag-based image editing method for MM-DiTs.  It generates an explicit correspondence map to boost the attention control which obviates the necessity for test-time optimization and unlocks the generative capability.