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ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation

Description:

ChronoEdit-14B enables physics-aware image editing and action-conditioned world simulation through temporal reasoning. It distills priors from a 14B-parameter pretrained video generative model and separates inference into (i) a video reasoning stage for latent trajectory denoising, and (ii) an in-context editing stage for pruning trajectory tokens. ChronoEdit-14B was developed by NVIDIA as part of the ChronoEdit family of multimodal foundation models. This model is ready for commercial use.

License/Terms of Use

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Deployment Geography

Global

Use Case

Researchers and developers for:

• Physics-aware in-context image editing
• Action-conditioned world simulation (PhysicalAI)
• Benchmarking multimodal foundation models

Release Date

• Hugging Face: 10/29/2025 via ChronoEdit.

• GitHub: 29/10/2025 via GitHub Repo Link

References(s)

• ChronoEdit: Temporal Reasoning for In-Context Image Editing (Preprint, 2025)
• Related NVIDIA works: Cosmos,Gen3C,DiffusionRenderer,Difix3D

Model Architecture

Architecture Type: Diffusion Transformer Network Architecture: Custom temporal denoising transformer Base Model: Pretrained video generative model (14B parameters) Number of Parameters: ~1.4 × 10^10

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Input

Input Type(s): Image + Text (instruction) Input Format:

• Text: UTF-8 string
• Image: RGB (.png, .jpg) Input Parameters:
• Image: Two-Dimensional (2D) Red, Green, Blue (RGB), variable resolution (recommended ≤1024×1024)
• Text: One-Dimensional (1D), up to ~300 tokens Other Properties Related to Input:
• Image Resolution: 1280 x 720 or 720 x 1280 or 960 x 960 or 1024×1024

Output

Output Type(s): Image Output Format: RGB (.png) Output Parameters: Two-Dimensional (2D) Red, Green, Blue (RGB), resolution configurable Other Properties Related to Output:

• Image Resolution: 1280 x 720 or 720 x 1280 or 960 x 960 or 1024×1024

Our AI models are designed and/or optimized to run on NVIDIA GPU-accelerated systems. By leveraging NVIDIA’s hardware (e.g. GPU cores) and software frameworks (e.g., CUDA libraries), the model achieves faster training and inference times compared to CPU-only solutions.

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Software Integration

Runtime Engine(s):

• PyTorch / Diffusers
• Triton Inference Server (optional)

Supported Hardware Microarchitecture Compatibility:

• NVIDIA Ampere
• NVIDIA Blackwell
• NVIDIA Hopper
• NVIDIA Lovelace

Preferred Operating Systems:

• Linux

The integration of foundation and fine-tuned models into AI systems requires additional testing using use-case-specific data to ensure safe and effective deployment. Following the V-model methodology, iterative testing and validation at both unit and system levels are essential to mitigate risks, meet technical and functional requirements, and ensure compliance with safety and ethical standards before deployment.

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Model Version(s)

• ChronoEdit-14B v1.0 (initial public release, 03/2025)

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Training, Testing and Evaluation Datasets

Training Dataset:

• Synthetic world interaction data (robot arm manipulation, object picking, temporal consistency)
• Open-domain video-text corpora (research use only)

Data Modality: Image, Text, Video

Image Training Data Size: 1 Million to 1 Billion Images

Text Training Data Size: Less than 10,000 Hours

Data Collection Method: Hybrid: Synthetic, Automated, Human

Labeling Method: Hybrid: Synthetic, Automated, Human

Properties:

• Modalities: 10 million image and text pair
• Nature of the content: Synthetic world interaction data (robot arm manipulation, object picking, temporal consistency)
• Linguistic characteristics: Natural Language

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Testing Dataset

• Held-out portion of training dataset for action-conditioned tasks.

Data Collection Method: Automated

Labeling Method by dataset: Automated

Properties:

• Modalities: 500 million image and text pair
• Nature of the content: Robot world interaction data (robot arm manipulation, object picking, temporal consistency)
• Linguistic characteristics: Natural Language

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Evaluation Dataset

• Held-out portion of training dataset for action-conditioned tasks.

Data Collection Method: Automated

Labeling Method by dataset: Automated

Properties:

• Modalities: 500 million image and text pair
• Nature of the content: Robot world interaction data (robot arm manipulation, object picking, temporal consistency)
• Linguistic characteristics: Natural Language

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Inference

Acceleration Engine: TensorRT, Triton Test Hardware: NVIDIA H100, NVIDIA B200

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Citation

@article{wu2025chronoedit,
    title={ChronoEdit: Towards Temporal Reasoning for Image Editing and World Simulation},
    author={Wu, Jay Zhangjie and Ren, Xuanchi and Shen, Tianchang and Cao, Tianshi and He, Kai and Lu, Yifan and Gao, Ruiyuan and Xie, Enze and Lan, Shiyi and Alvarez, Jose M. and Gao, Jun and Fidler, Sanja and Wang, Zian and Ling, Huan},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.04290},
    year={2025}
}