Preprint
Aug 2026
Aphanta: Diagnosing Task-Aligned Image-Edited Intermediates for Multimodal Reasoning
The results position image editing as a specialized visual workspace rather than a universal reasoning mechanism, and establish Aphanta as a reusable protocol for measuring task--representation alignment, editor realization, and downstream pipeline utility.
Hengyuan Xu, Wei Cheng, Yu-Meng Ji et al.
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