Qwen's new image paper is easy to read as another benchmark bump. Qwen-Image-2.0-RL takes the existing Qwen-Image-2.0 model, runs a reinforcement-learning pass on top, and reports better scores: 57.84 on Qwen-Image-Bench, up 2.61 points from the base model. Its text-to-image arena Elo moves from 1115 to 1193. Its image-editing arena Elo moves from 1256 to 1349. Those are the headline numbers. They are not the useful part. The useful part is the training story underneath them. The paper ...