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Pico-Banana-400K: A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editing research paper by Apple, 2025

Apple · Retrieval and data · Oct 22, 2025 · 68 citations · 30 upvotes · unverified

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Pico-Banana-400K is a large-scale, high-quality dataset for instruction-based image editing, featuring diverse edit pairs, multi-turn editing, preference subsets, and long-short instruction pairs, enabling comprehensive research and benchmarking.

By Yusu Qian, Eli Bocek-Rivele, Liangchen Song and 5 more · arXiv 2510.19808 · PDF · Code

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68, 6 influential · Semantic Scholar
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30 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 2, 2026Influential citations rose from 5 to 6.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 64 to 68.
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CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 5 influential citations.
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