Learning 3D Editing without Paired Supervision via Generative Prior Distillation

Hao Wen; Weibin Yun; Hongxing Fan; Haotian Lu; Rui Chen; Zehuan Huang; Lu Sheng

title	Learning 3D Editing without Paired Supervision via Generative Prior Distillation
authors	Hao Wen, Weibin Yun, Hongxing Fan, Haotian Lu, Rui Chen, Zehuan Huang, Lu Sheng
date	2026-09-04
venue	arXiv (preprint, not peer reviewed)
id	arXiv:2609.04942
links	abs pdf hf code
abstract	Instruction-guided 3D editing is essential for interactive content creation, yet it faces a significant bottleneck: the severe scarcity of high-quality paired training data. Existing approaches attempt to bypass this by either relying on slow test-time optimization or training on pseudo-pairs constructed via complex pipelines, which often introduce structural drift and geometric artifacts. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that learns feed-forward 3D editing without paired 3D supervision via Generative Prior Distillation. Instead of relying on ground-truth 3D pairs, our core idea is to distill visual, semantic, and geometric knowledge from powerful foundation models directly into a 3D editing model. Specifically, through a differentiable rendering pipeline, we supervise the 3D representation using two complementary signals: a 2D visual prior from an image editing model at the main editing view, and a semantic prior from a Vision-Language Model at novel views to ensure strict instruction following and source identity preservation. Crucially, to address the geometric collapse and multi-view inconsistencies inherent in 2D projection supervision, we introduce a 3D-aware Distribution Matching regularization. Acting as a geometric prior, this term operates in the 3D latent space, constraining the edited output to remain within the manifold of realistic 3D assets defined by a pretrained image to 3D teacher model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves superior instruction fidelity and cross-view consistency, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art baselines. Our project is available at: https://github.com/thiamine128/PriorEdit3D.

cite

@misc{wen2026learning,
  title={Learning 3D Editing without Paired Supervision via Generative Prior Distillation},
  author={Hao Wen and Weibin Yun and Hongxing Fan and Haotian Lu and Rui Chen and Zehuan Huang and Lu Sheng},
  year={2026},
  eprint={2609.04942},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04942}
}