Mind-Brush: Integrating Agentic Cognitive Search and Reasoning into Image Generation

TL;DR

Mind-Brush introduces an agentic, knowledge-driven framework for image generation that actively retrieves evidence and employs reasoning, significantly improving understanding and task performance over static models.

Contribution

It presents a novel unified framework that integrates active knowledge retrieval and reasoning into image generation, enabling dynamic, context-aware outputs.

Findings

Significantly improves performance on Mind-Bench benchmark.

Achieves a zero-to-one capability leap over baseline models.

Outperforms existing models on WISE and RISE benchmarks.

Abstract

While text-to-image generation has achieved unprecedented fidelity, the vast majority of existing models function fundamentally as static text-to-pixel decoders. Consequently, they often fail to grasp implicit user intentions. Although emerging unified understanding-generation models have improved intent comprehension, they still struggle to accomplish tasks involving complex knowledge reasoning within a single model. Moreover, constrained by static internal priors, these models remain unable to adapt to the evolving dynamics of the real world. To bridge these gaps, we introduce Mind-Brush, a unified agentic framework that transforms generation into a dynamic, knowledge-driven workflow. Simulating a human-like 'think-research-create' paradigm, Mind-Brush actively retrieves multimodal evidence to ground out-of-distribution concepts and employs reasoning tools to resolve implicit visual constraints. To rigorously evaluate these capabilities, we propose Mind-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark comprising 500 distinct samples spanning real-time news, emerging concepts, and domains such as mathematical and Geo-Reasoning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Mind-Brush significantly enhances the capabilities of unified models, realizing a zero-to-one capability leap for the Qwen-Image baseline on Mind-Bench, while achieving superior results on established benchmarks like WISE and RISE.