IC-Light: A Perfect [10, 10, 10, 10] ICLR Paper by ControlNet Creator, Now with 6k Stars on GitHub

IC-Light improves illumination editing accuracy, preserving image details across diverse lighting conditions and applications like normal map generation.

Four Perfect Scores! A Rare Scene Unfolds

What you're witnessing isn't a diving competition by China's Dream Team but the review process of ICLR 2025.

While perfect-score papers aren't entirely unheard of, in a conference with an average score of only 4.76, they certainly make waves.

The paper that captivated all the reviewers is the latest work by ControlNet creator Zhang Lümin, titled IC-Light. Rarely do we see such unanimous ratings: "Rating: 10: strong accept, should be highlighted at the conference" from all four reviewers.

Even before its submission to ICLR, IC-Light had been open-sourced on GitHub for six months, garnering 5.8k stars, a testament to its excellence.

The initial version was based on SD 1.5 and SDXL, but just a few days ago, the team released V2, now compatible with Flux, further enhancing its capabilities.

Curious? You can try it out yourself:

• GitHub Project: IC-Light

• V2 Update: Discussion

• Demo: Hugging Face Space

What is IC-Light?

IC-Light is a diffusion-based illumination editing model that allows precise lighting control through textual prompts.