IEA: Amateur-Friendly Conversational Image Editing Agent via Three Stages of Multitask Alignment
Researchers introduce IEA, a conversational AI agent that enables amateur users to edit images through natural language by learning to operate parameterized editing tools in an interpretable action space. The system uses a three-stage training pipeline combining supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning with rewards for editing quality, and synthetic data fine-tuning, producing transparent edit traces that outperform both generative and tool-calling baselines in user studies.