Qwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation
Abstract
Text-to-Image generation has evolved from basic image synthesis into a frequently used core capability in professional creative workflows, where simple text-image alignment can no longer satisfy users' pressing demands for faithful real-world reconstruction and genuine creative expression. Existing benchmarks, however, remain anchored in these foundational criteria and do not yet capture the nuanced capabilities that matter in authentic artistic practice, making it difficult to reliably distinguish state-of-the-art T2I models. To address the gap, we introduce Qwen-Image-Bench, a creator-centric benchmark co-designed with professional artists and grounded in real-world creation scenarios. Qwen-Image-Bench enriches conventional evaluation with two application-driven dimensions: Real-world Fidelity and Creative Generation. Drawing on the staged reasoning inherent in professional artistic workflows, we organize these five pillars into a top-down hierarchical taxonomy that further decomposes into 23 second-level sub-capabilities and 56 third-level verifiable rubrics. To ensure broad coverage, we curate 1000 stratified prompts with each prompt jointly exercising more than four fine-grained facets across multiple pillars. We train a unified judge model Q-Judger based on Qwen3.6-27B, supervised by 80 professional annotators from global art academies under blind labeling and triple-review protocols, that scores every image across all 56 verifiable facets, producing fine-grained, rubric-grounded, and fully attributable diagnostics rather than a single opaque score. Empirically, Qwen-Image-Bench reliably distinguishes leading T2I models, achieving the greatest separation on the two application-driven dimensions of Real-world Fidelity and Creative Generation where existing benchmarks provide little insight, while also providing a trustworthy optimization signal for production-level T2I development.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.28091,
title = {Qwen-Image-Bench: From Generation to Creation in Text-to-Image Evaluation},
author = {Niantong Li and Guangzheng Hu and Weixu Qiao and Ying Ba and Qichen Hong and Shijun Shen and Jinlin Wang and Fan Zhou and Jianye Kang and Xin Shang and Ziyi He and Wei Wang and Dalin Li and Jiahao Li and Jie Zhang and Kaiyuan Gao and Kun Yan and Lihan Jiang and Ningyuan Tang and Shengming Yin and Tianhe Wu and Xiao Xu and Xiaoyue Chen and Yuxiang Chen and Yan Shu and Yanran Zhang and Yilei Chen and Yixian Xu and Zekai Zhang and Zhendong Wang and Zihao Liu and Zikai Zhou and Hongzhu Shi and Yi Wang and Bing Zhao and Hu Wei and Lin Qu and Chenfei Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.28091},
year = {2026}
}