@article{thinkinstrokesnotpixelsprocessdrivenimag, title = {Think in Strokes, Not Pixels: Process-Driven Image Generation via Interleaved Reasoning}, author = {Lei Zhang and Junjiao Tian and Zhipeng Fan and Kunpeng Li and Jialiang Wang and Weifeng Chen and Markos Georgopoulos and Felix Juefei-Xu and Yuxiang Bao and Julian McAuley and Manling Li and Zecheng He}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.04746}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.04746}, }