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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

Training-Free 3D Editing via Feature-Divergence Localization and Trajectory Correction

Tri Ton, Siwoo Lim, Joshua Tian Jin Tee, Chang Yoo

Abstract

Modifying 3D assets requires enacting targeted structural transformations while strictly preserving the geometric identity of unedited regions. While recent probability flow models enable training-free editing, bounding these modifications within a high-dimensional latent space presents severe mathematical challenges. Current inversion-free trajectories rely on global velocity updates, which consistently result in spatial bleed into preserved structures and induce trajectory under-commitment, causing edits to stall mid-path. To resolve these dual failures, we introduce FocusFlow, a segmentation-free framework that structures the integration trajectory into two disjoint phases. During early coarse structure formation, FocusFlow applies Feature-Divergence Localization (FDL) to spatially gate the velocity field using intrinsic cross-attention. During late-stage fine-detail refinement, Reference-Guided Generation (RGG) drives topological convergence by pulling the trajectory toward an explicit clean-latent target. Evaluated on the joint Google Scanned Objects and PartObjaverse-Tiny benchmarks, FocusFlow breaks the traditional preservation-modification trade-off. It achieves superior structural preservation while maximizing edit magnitude. By providing stable, localized geometric control without manual spatial annotations, this phase-scheduled approach removes significant technical barriers to the precise modification of synthetic 3D media.

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