license: apache-2.0
pipeline_tag: image-text-to-text
This repository contains EditScore, a series of state-of-the-art open-source reward models (7B–72B) designed to evaluate and enhance instruction-guided image editing.
The model was presented in the paper EditScore: Unlocking Online RL for Image Editing via High-Fidelity Reward Modeling.
- 📚 Paper
- 🌐 Project Page
- 💻 Code Repository
✨ Highlights
- State-of-the-Art Performance: Effectively matches the performance of leading proprietary VLMs. With a self-ensembling strategy, our largest model surpasses even GPT-5 on our comprehensive benchmark, EditReward-Bench.
- A Reliable Evaluation Standard: We introduce EditReward-Bench, the first public benchmark specifically designed for evaluating reward models in image editing, featuring 13 subtasks, 11 state-of-the-art editing models (including proprietary models) and expert human annotations.
- Simple and Easy-to-Use: Get an accurate quality score for your image edits with just a few lines of code.
- Versatile Applications: Ready to use as a best-in-class reranker to improve editing outputs, or as a high-fidelity reward signal for stable and effective Reinforcement Learning (RL) fine-tuning.
📖 Introduction
While Reinforcement Learning (RL) holds immense potential for this domain, its progress has been severely hindered by the absence of a high-fidelity, efficient reward signal.
To overcome this barrier, we provide a systematic, two-part solution:
A Rigorous Evaluation Standard: We first introduce EditReward-Bench, a new public benchmark for the direct and reliable evaluation of reward models. It features 13 diverse subtasks and expert human annotations, establishing a gold standard for measuring reward signal quality.
A Powerful & Versatile Tool: Guided by our benchmark, we developed the EditScore model series. Through meticulous data curation and an effective self-ensembling strategy, EditScore sets a new state of the art for open-source reward models, even surpassing the accuracy of leading proprietary VLMs.
Benchmark results on EditReward-Bench.
We demonstrate the practical utility of EditScore through two key applications:
- As a State-of-the-Art Reranker: Use EditScore to perform Best-of-N selection and instantly improve the output quality of diverse editing models.
- As a High-Fidelity Reward for RL: Use EditScore as a robust reward signal to fine-tune models via RL, enabling stable training and unlocking significant performance gains where general-purpose VLMs fail.
This repository releases both the EditScore models and the EditReward-Bench dataset to facilitate future research in reward modeling, policy optimization, and AI-driven model improvement.
EditScore as a superior reward signal for image editing.
🚀 Quick Start
🛠️ Environment Setup
✅ Recommended Setup
# 1. Clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:VectorSpaceLab/EditScore.git
cd EditScore
# 2. (Optional) Create a clean Python environment
conda create -n editscore python=3.12
conda activate editscore
# 3. Install dependencies
# 3.1 Install PyTorch (choose correct CUDA version)
pip install torch==2.7.1 torchvision --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu126
# 3.2 Install other required packages
pip install -r requirements.txt
# EditScore runs even without vllm, though we recommend install it for best performance.
pip install vllm
🌏 For users in Mainland China
# Install PyTorch from a domestic mirror
pip install torch==2.7.1 torchvision --index-url https://mirror.sjtu.edu.cn/pytorch-wheels/cu126
# Install other dependencies from Tsinghua mirror
pip install -r requirements.txt -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
# EditScore runs even without vllm, though we recommend install it for best performance.
pip install vllm -i https://pypi.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/simple
🧪 Usage Example
Using EditScore is straightforward. The model will be automatically downloaded from the Hugging Face Hub on its first run.
from PIL import Image
from editscore import EditScore
# Load the EditScore model. It will be downloaded automatically.
# Replace with the specific model version you want to use.
model_path = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct"
lora_path = "EditScore/EditScore-7B"
scorer = EditScore(
backbone="qwen25vl", # set to "qwen25vl_vllm" for faster inference
model_name_or_path=model_path,
enable_lora=True,
lora_path=lora_path,
score_range=25,
num_pass=1, # Increase for better performance via self-ensembling
)
input_image = Image.open("example_images/input.png")
output_image = Image.open("example_images/output.png")
instruction = "Adjust the background to a glass wall."
result = scorer.evaluate([input_image, output_image], instruction)
print(f"Edit Score: {result['final_score']}")
# Expected output: A dictionary containing the final score and other details.
❤️ Citing Us
If you find this repository or our work useful, please consider giving a star ⭐ and citation 🦖, which would be greatly appreciated:
@article{luo2025editscore,
title={EditScore: Unlocking Online RL for Image Editing via High-Fidelity Reward Modeling},
author={Xin Luo and Jiahao Wang and Chenyuan Wu and Shitao Xiao and Xiyan Jiang and Defu Lian and Jiajun Zhang and Dong Liu and Zheng Liu},
journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23909},
year={2025}
}