Beyond Pixels: Visual Metaphor Transfer via Schema-Driven Agentic Reasoning

arXiv:2602.01335 · cs.CV, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-02-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-02-01

Updated: 2026-08-27

Comments: Accepted to SIGGRAPH ASIA 2026; Project page: https://yuci-gpt.github.io/Beyond-Pixels/

Project page: https://yuci-gpt.github.io/Beyond-Pixels

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Alignment — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 9× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 8× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Conceptual Blending Theory — 8× in this paper
• Fidelity — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Visual Metaphor Transfer — 6× in this paper
• Agentic Reasoning — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Analogy Appropriateness — 4× in this paper
• Metaphor Consistency — 4× in this paper
• Multi-Agent Framework — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Abstraction — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Decoupling — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Model — 3× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Diffusion Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generalizability — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Generative AI — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Concept Drift — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Contrastive Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Vision-Language Model — 2× in this paper
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Agentic Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decode — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Hallucination — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Diffusion Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Latent Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Metaphor Ingenuity — 1× in this paper
• Metaphor Recognizability — 1× in this paper
• Model-Agnostic — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Overall Visual Quality — 1× in this paper
• Rectified Flow — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Structural Integrity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Structured Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Vision-Language Model (VLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Visual Integration — 1× in this paper

Sources

• The Mind's Eye: A Multi-Faceted Reward Framework for Guiding Visual Metaphor Generation
• HunyuanImage 3.0 Technical Report
• I Spy a Metaphor: Large Language Models and Diffusion Models Co-Create Visual Metaphors
• Emerging Properties in Unified Multimodal Pretraining
• Seedream 4.0: Toward Next-generation Multimodal Image Generation
• HeadRouter: A Training-free Image Editing Framework for MM-DiTs by Adaptively Routing Attention Heads
• TAG-MoE: Task-Aware Gating for Unified Generative Mixture-of-Experts

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