arxivcs.CVcs.AI2026-07-07
Analysis-by-Proxy: Localization Signals in VLMs Operating as Condition Encoders
Yoav Baron, Sara Dorfman, Roni Paiss, Daniel Cohen-Or, Or Patashnik
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly utilized as the conditioning backbone for diffusion-based image editing due to their remarkable multimodal reasoning capabilities. While standalone VLMs demonstrate strong localization capabilities, editing pipelines frequently strug…