ConsistEdit: Highly Consistent and Precise Training-free Visual Editing

TL;DR

ConsistEdit introduces a training-free, attention control method for MM-DiT that achieves highly consistent, precise, and flexible visual editing across images and videos, outperforming prior approaches in multi-round and multi-region editing.

Contribution

The paper presents ConsistEdit, a novel attention control technique tailored for MM-DiT, enabling reliable, fine-grained, and multi-step visual editing without manual tuning.

Findings

Achieves state-of-the-art performance in image and video editing tasks.

Supports multi-round and multi-region editing with high consistency.

Enables progressive control of structural consistency.

Abstract

Recent advances in training-free attention control methods have enabled flexible and efficient text-guided editing capabilities for existing generation models. However, current approaches struggle to simultaneously deliver strong editing strength while preserving consistency with the source. This limitation becomes particularly critical in multi-round and video editing, where visual errors can accumulate over time. Moreover, most existing methods enforce global consistency, which limits their ability to modify individual attributes such as texture while preserving others, thereby hindering fine-grained editing. Recently, the architectural shift from U-Net to MM-DiT has brought significant improvements in generative performance and introduced a novel mechanism for integrating text and vision modalities. These advancements pave the way for overcoming challenges that previous methods failed to resolve. Through an in-depth analysis of MM-DiT, we identify three key insights into its attention mechanisms. Building on these, we propose ConsistEdit, a novel attention control method specifically tailored for MM-DiT. ConsistEdit incorporates vision-only attention control, mask-guided pre-attention fusion, and differentiated manipulation of the query, key, and value tokens to produce consistent, prompt-aligned edits. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ConsistEdit achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of image and video editing tasks, including both structure-consistent and structure-inconsistent scenarios. Unlike prior methods, it is the first approach to perform editing across all inference steps and attention layers without handcraft, significantly enhancing reliability and consistency, which enables robust multi-round and multi-region editing. Furthermore, it supports progressive adjustment of structural consistency, enabling finer control.