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Agentic Visual Generation: From Generative Models to Agentic Control

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 6, 2026 · UTC

Visual generation is evolving from generative models used through a single invocation into agentic control processes that can plan, select tools, inspect intermediate synthesized outputs, revise failures, and reuse prior experience. In most existing systems, the controller is an LLM or VLM, while visual generation models serve as tools or executors. However, existing work lacks a consistent criterion for determining when a generation system becomes agentic. Planning depth, tool use, multi-role collaboration, and reinforcement learning are often treated as evidence of agenticity, even though no

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