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Qwen-Image-2.0-RL Technical Report

A diffusion-model post-training pipeline combines task-specific rewards, reinforcement learning and on-policy distillation.

Yixian Xu et al.
2026-06-25 · Qwen · Technical report
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@misc{xu2026qwen,
  title = {Qwen-Image-2.0-RL Technical Report},
  author = {Yixian Xu and Kaiyuan Gao and Yuxiang Chen and Yilei Chen and Zecheng Tang and Zihao Liu and Zikai Zhou and Deqing Li and Hao Meng and Kuan Cao and Jiahao Li and Jie Zhang and Liang Peng and Lihan Jiang and Ningyuan Tang and Shengming Yin and Tianhe Wu and Xiaoyue Chen and Yan Shu and Yanran Zhang and Yi Wang and Yu Wu and Yujia Wu and Zekai Zhang and Zhendong Wang and Xiao Xu and Kun Yan and Chenfei Wu},
  year = {2026},
  eprint = {2606.27608},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.27608}
}

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