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VisionCreator-R1: A Reflection-Enhanced Native Visual-Generation Agentic Model

arXiv cs.CV / 3/11/2026

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  • VisionCreator-R1 is a new native visual-generation agent that incorporates an explicit reflection mechanism to correct visual errors mid-trajectory, overcoming limitations in prior plan-driven visual generation models.
  • The model is trained using a novel Reflection-Plan Co-Optimization (RPCO) methodology that addresses the asymmetry between planning and reflection learning in reinforcement learning.
  • Experiments show that VisionCreator-R1 consistently outperforms the previous state-of-the-art Gemini2.5Pro across benchmarks involving single-image and multi-image visual generation tasks.
  • The training involves a staged approach using a self-constructed dataset emphasizing reflection and planning strengths, followed by reinforcement learning on a second dataset to unify the agent’s capabilities.
  • This approach highlights the importance of integrating reflection mechanisms in agentic models for more accurate and robust visual content generation workflows.

Computer Science > Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

arXiv:2603.08812 (cs)
[Submitted on 9 Mar 2026]

Title:VisionCreator-R1: A Reflection-Enhanced Native Visual-Generation Agentic Model

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Abstract:Visual content generation has advanced from single-image to multi-image workflows, yet existing agents remain largely plan-driven and lack systematic reflection mechanisms to correct mid-trajectory visual errors. To address this limitation, we propose VisionCreator-R1, a native visual generation agent with explicit reflection, together with a Reflection-Plan Co-Optimization (RPCO) training methodology. Through extensive experiments and trajectory-level analysis, we uncover reflection-plan optimization asymmetry in reinforcement learning (RL): planning can be reliably optimized via plan rewards, while reflection learning is hindered by noisy credit assignment. Guided by this insight, our RPCO first trains on the self-constructed VCR-SFT dataset with reflection-strong single-image trajectories and planning-strong multi-image trajectories, then co-optimization on VCR-RL dataset via RL. This yields our unified VisionCreator-R1 agent, which consistently outperforms Gemini2.5Pro on existing benchmarks and our VCR-bench covering single-image and multi-image tasks.
Subjects: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.08812 [cs.CV]
  (or arXiv:2603.08812v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.08812
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From: Jinxiang Lai [view email]
[v1] Mon, 9 Mar 2026 18:10:49 UTC (14,662 KB)
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