arxiv: 2605.09003 · v2 · submitted 2026-05-09 · 💻 cs.CV

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FlashClear: Ultra-Fast Image Content Removal via Efficient Step Distillation and Feature Caching

Yixin Tang , Jiawei Guo , Junxian Li , Zhiteng Li , Jixin Zhao , Bingya Zhang , Chenbo Wang , Yulun Zhang

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keywords object removaldiffusion modelsmodel distillationfeature cachingfew-step inferenceimage editingaccelerationcomputer vision

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A distilled few-step diffusion model removes objects from images up to 122 times faster than prior methods while keeping visual quality.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper shows how to cut the heavy computation in diffusion-based object removal by training a model that only needs a handful of denoising steps. It does this through a region-aware adversarial distillation process that teaches the model to focus on the parts of the image that actually need changing. A separate training-free caching technique then skips redundant work in background areas. If these changes hold up, object removal shifts from a slow offline process to something fast enough for interactive use on ordinary hardware.

Core claim

FlashClear trains a compact diffusion model via Region-aware Adversarial Distillation (RAD) that uses a latent discriminator to concentrate computation on foreground removal regions, then applies Foreground-Prioritized Asymmetric Attention and Caching (FPAC) to reuse features across the few remaining steps. On the OBER benchmark this yields speedups of 8.26 times over ObjectClear and 122 times over OmniPaint while matching or exceeding the base model's ability to erase objects and their visual effects without visible artifacts.

What carries the argument

Region-aware Adversarial Distillation (RAD) that trains a latent discriminator to produce a few-step removal model, combined with training-free Foreground-Prioritized Asymmetric Attention and Caching (FPAC) that prioritizes foreground tokens and reuses cached features in background areas.

If this is right

Object removal inference time drops enough for real-time editing tools on consumer GPUs.
The same base model can now process many more images in the same compute budget.
No additional training or post-processing steps are required to reach the reported speed and quality.
The approach preserves fidelity in eliminating both the target object and its associated lighting or shadow effects.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Similar distillation and caching patterns could accelerate other localized diffusion editing tasks such as inpainting or shadow removal.
Extending the asymmetric caching across video frames might enable practical video object removal at interactive rates.
The reduced step count could make these models run acceptably on mobile or edge devices without cloud offload.

Load-bearing premise

The latent discriminator and asymmetric caching will keep removal quality intact and avoid new artifacts on diverse real-world images without any extra fine-tuning.

What would settle it

Apply FlashClear to a new test set of complex scenes containing fine background textures and measure whether PSNR or perceptual quality scores fall below the original ObjectClear baseline or visible artifacts appear.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.09003 by Bingya Zhang, Chenbo Wang, Jiawei Guo, Jixin Zhao, Junxian Li, Shangchen Zhou, Yixin Tang, Yulun Zhang, Zhiteng Li.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Illustration of our Region-aware Adversarial Distillation. To accelerate object removal [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of FPAC. Foreground and background tokens are dynamically separated via [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_3.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: The mask is colored in green. The binary spatial map Mi is refined gradually. Foreground-Prioritized Caching. As illustrated in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Qualitative comparison of object removal methods. Our method shows stronger object [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Qualitative comparison on acceleration methods based on ObjectClear [ [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: LPIPS and FLOPs (T) trade-off. LPIPS spikes for generally designed acceleration methods like ToCa [67]. Effectiveness of RAD. We evaluate our four-step model’s performance with different distillation losses. As shown in Table 2b, Diffusion denotes diffusion loss and GAN means using a standard semantic discriminator (Clip) in pixel space, while RAD denotes our proposed region-aware adversarial distillatio… view at source ↗

**Figure 9.** Figure 9: The mask is colored by green. Compared with the 3-steps and ToCa [67] strategies, FPAC maintains removal quality without introducing visual artifacts. Effectiveness of FPAC. To further reduce computational overhead while preserving high visual fidelity, we introduce FPAC, an acceleration plug-in specifically tailored for object removal tasks. Most existing training-free methods either require a substanti… view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Qualitative comparison of different sampling and acceleration settings. ObjectClear [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Visual comparison of HiCache and FPAC on different object removal cases. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_11.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Example interface of the user study. Each question shows the reference image with the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_12.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 13.** Figure 13: More qualitative comparison on acceleration methods based on ObjectClear [62]. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_13.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 14.** Figure 14: More visual comparison of ours and other object removal methods on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_14.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 15.** Figure 15: More visual comparison of ours and other object removal methods on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_15.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 16.** Figure 16: More qualitative comparison of our method and others on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p022_16.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 17.** Figure 17: More qualitative comparison of our method and others on [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_17.png] view at source ↗

read the original abstract

Recently, diffusion-based object removal models have achieved impressive results in eliminating objects and their associated visual effects. However, they indiscriminately denoise all tokens across all timesteps, ignoring that removal usually involves small foreground regions. This strategy introduces substantial computational overhead and prolonged inference times. To overcome this computational burden, we propose a latent discriminator to implement Region-aware Adversarial Distillation (RAD), yielding a highly efficient few-step model named FlashClear. Furthermore, tailored to few-step diffusion models, we propose FPAC (Foreground-Prioritized Asymmetric Attention and Caching), a training-free acceleration strategy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework provides massive acceleration while maintaining or exceeding the performance of our base model, ObjectClear. Notably, on the OBER benchmark, our FlashClear achieves up to 8.26$\times$ and 122$\times$ speedup over ObjectClear and OmniPaint, respectively, while maintaining high visual quality and fidelity.

Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, simulated authors' rebuttal, and a circularity audit. Tearing a paper down is the easy half of reading it; the pith above is the substance, this is the friction.

Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

FlashClear pairs region-aware adversarial distillation with foreground caching to cut diffusion steps for object removal, but the abstract gives no metrics or ablations to back the quality claims.

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The main thing to know is that this paper targets a clear inefficiency in diffusion object removal models, which normally denoise the entire image even when only small foreground regions matter. It introduces RAD to distill the base ObjectClear model down to few steps using a latent discriminator, then adds the training-free FPAC method that applies asymmetric attention and feature caching focused on the foreground. That specific combination looks new relative to the cited priors and directly addresses the compute waste the authors flag. The approach is sensible on paper and could matter for anyone trying to run these models faster on ordinary hardware. The reported speedups of 8.26× over ObjectClear and 122× over OmniPaint on the OBER benchmark are the headline numbers, and the claim is that visual quality stays high. What is missing from the abstract, though, is any actual quality metric, ablation table, error bar, or failure-case discussion. Without those, it is hard to judge whether the distillation preserves fidelity or whether the caching heuristic introduces artifacts on tricky inputs like complex lighting or fine textures. The stress-test note about unverified assumptions on artifact-free behavior lines up with what is visible. This work is aimed at practitioners and researchers who need faster inference for image editing rather than new capabilities. A reading group could usefully discuss the distillation and caching mechanics if the full paper supplies the missing experimental details. I would not cite it yet. It is worth sending to peer review so referees can check whether the empirical support actually holds.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces FlashClear for ultra-fast object removal in images. It proposes Region-aware Adversarial Distillation (RAD) that employs a latent discriminator to distill the base ObjectClear diffusion model into a few-step generator, combined with the training-free FPAC module that applies foreground-prioritized asymmetric attention and feature caching. The central empirical claim is that FlashClear delivers up to 8.26× speedup versus ObjectClear and 122× versus OmniPaint on the OBER benchmark while preserving or improving visual quality and fidelity.

Significance. If the quality-preservation claim holds under rigorous testing, the work would be significant for enabling real-time diffusion-based editing pipelines; the training-free character of FPAC and the region-aware distillation strategy constitute clear engineering contributions that could be adopted by follow-on systems.

major comments (2)

[Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the headline speedups are reported without any tabulated quantitative quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, FID), ablation tables, error bars, or statistical significance tests, so the assertion that quality is “maintained or exceeded” cannot be evaluated from the presented evidence.
[§3.2 and §3.3] §3.2 (RAD) and §3.3 (FPAC): the claim that the latent discriminator yields a few-step model whose outputs match the base model’s fidelity, and that asymmetric caching introduces no visible artifacts on complex lighting/shadows/fine textures, rests on unverified assumptions; no per-region error maps, failure-case analysis, or cross-domain generalization tests are supplied to substantiate this load-bearing premise.

minor comments (2)

[§3.1 and figures] Figure captions and §3.1 should explicitly define the latent discriminator architecture and the precise caching schedule used in FPAC so that the method is reproducible.
[§4.1] The OBER benchmark description is missing details on image resolution, object size distribution, and evaluation protocol; these should be added for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments highlight opportunities to strengthen the empirical validation of our quality claims, and we will revise the manuscript accordingly to address them directly.

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Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (Experiments): the headline speedups are reported without any tabulated quantitative quality metrics (PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, FID), ablation tables, error bars, or statistical significance tests, so the assertion that quality is “maintained or exceeded” cannot be evaluated from the presented evidence.

Authors: We agree that the current manuscript relies primarily on qualitative visual comparisons to support the claim of maintained or improved quality. In the revised version, we will add a dedicated table in §4 reporting PSNR, SSIM, LPIPS, and FID scores for FlashClear against ObjectClear and OmniPaint on the OBER benchmark. We will also include ablation tables for RAD and FPAC components, error bars from multiple random seeds, and statistical significance tests (e.g., paired t-tests) to enable rigorous evaluation of the quality assertions. The abstract will be updated to reference these quantitative results. revision: yes
Referee: [§3.2 and §3.3] §3.2 (RAD) and §3.3 (FPAC): the claim that the latent discriminator yields a few-step model whose outputs match the base model’s fidelity, and that asymmetric caching introduces no visible artifacts on complex lighting/shadows/fine textures, rests on unverified assumptions; no per-region error maps, failure-case analysis, or cross-domain generalization tests are supplied to substantiate this load-bearing premise.

Authors: The manuscript currently supports these claims through side-by-side visual results and qualitative inspection, but we acknowledge that additional quantitative and analytical evidence would make the arguments more robust. In the revision, we will add per-region error maps (highlighting foreground vs. background differences), a dedicated failure-case analysis subsection, and cross-domain generalization experiments on additional datasets beyond OBER to verify fidelity preservation under RAD and artifact-free behavior under FPAC. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; empirical claims rest on external benchmarks

full rationale

The paper introduces RAD (adversarial distillation with latent discriminator) and training-free FPAC (asymmetric attention + caching) as acceleration techniques for a base diffusion removal model. No equations or derivations are presented that reduce by construction to fitted parameters or prior outputs. Speedup and quality claims are supported by direct empirical comparisons on the OBER benchmark against external baselines (ObjectClear, OmniPaint). Self-citation to the base model is present but not load-bearing for any derivation; it serves only as the starting point for measured acceleration. The method is explicitly training-free for FPAC and relies on reported experimental fidelity rather than any self-referential proof or uniqueness theorem.

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Abstract contains no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; all claims are empirical.

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