Image Editing papers, 2023–2026
Instruction-based editing
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 692 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Image Editing went from 112 papers in 2023 to 238 in 2026, roughly 2.1x in three years.
- CVPR publishes the most Image Editing work: 364 papers from 2023 to 2026, 53% of the four-venue total.
- The fastest-growing overlap is with Applications · computer vision: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 15 in 2026.
- Among the 5 topics under Multimodal Generation, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Storytelling Generation, is up 15x versus 2.1x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 64 | 112 |
| 2024 | 33 | 24 | 13 | 90 | 160 |
| 2025 | 45 | 29 | 11 | 97 | 182 |
| 2026 | 52 | 40 | 33 | 113 | 238 |
Representative papers
Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up
- NeurIPS 2026Accelerated Image Editing via Consistency-Aware Source Token Pruning
- ICML 2026Klein Hyperbolic Metric Learning
- ICLR 2026DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing
- CVPR 2026AnchorFlow Training-Free 3D Editing via Latent Anchor-Aligned Flows
- NeurIPS 2025A$^3$E: Towards Compositional Model Editing
- ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
- ICLR 2025HQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2025AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea
- NeurIPS 2024Reproducibility study of “LICO: Explainable Models with Language-Image Consistency"
- ICML 2024Counterfactual Image Editing
- ICLR 2024Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024DiffEditor: Boosting Accuracy and Flexibility on Diffusion-based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023ImageBrush: Learning Visual In-Context Instructions for Exemplar-Based Image Manipulation
- ICML 2023Random Shuffle Transformer for Image Restoration
- ICLR 2023Editing models with task arithmetic
- CVPR 20233D GAN Inversion With Facial Symmetry Prior
- NeurIPS 2026AnyBokeh: Physics-Guided Any-to-Any Bokeh Editing with Optical Fingerprint Transfer
- ICML 2026DLEBench: Evaluating Small-scale Object Editing Ability for Instruction-based Image Editing Model
- ICLR 2026Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
- CVPR 2026ChordEdit One-Step Low-Energy Transport for Image Editing
All Image Editing papers
692 papers, page 13 of 14
- CVPR 2023High-Fidelity Clothed Avatar Reconstruction From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023Image Super-Resolution Using T-Tetromino Pixels
- CVPR 2023ImageNet-E: Benchmarking Neural Network Robustness via Attribute Editing
- CVPR 2023Imagic: Text-Based Real Image Editing With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023InstructPix2Pix: Learning To Follow Image Editing Instructions
- CVPR 2023Learned Image Compression With Mixed Transformer-CNN Architectures
- CVPR 2023Learning a Simple Low-Light Image Enhancer From Paired Low-Light Instances
- CVPR 2023Learning Bottleneck Concepts in Image Classification
- CVPR 2023Local 3D Editing via 3D Distillation of CLIP Knowledge
- CVPR 2023Model-Agnostic Gender Debiased Image Captioning
- CVPR 2023NeuralEditor: Editing Neural Radiance Fields via Manipulating Point Clouds
- CVPR 2023Non-Contrastive Learning Meets Language-Image Pre-Training
- CVPR 2023NULL-Text Inversion for Editing Real Images Using Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023NUWA-LIP: Language-Guided Image Inpainting With Defect-Free VQGAN
- CVPR 2023OneFormer: One Transformer To Rule Universal Image Segmentation
- CVPR 2023OSRT: Omnidirectional Image Super-Resolution With Distortion-Aware Transformer
- CVPR 2023Paint by Example: Exemplar-Based Image Editing With Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023PaletteNeRF: Palette-Based Appearance Editing of Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2023PCT-Net: Full Resolution Image Harmonization Using Pixel-Wise Color Transformations
- CVPR 2023Perception-Oriented Single Image Super-Resolution Using Optimal Objective Estimation
- CVPR 2023Perspective Fields for Single Image Camera Calibration
- CVPR 2023Pic2Word: Mapping Pictures to Words for Zero-Shot Composed Image Retrieval
- CVPR 2023Polarized Color Image Denoising
- CVPR 2023PREIM3D: 3D Consistent Precise Image Attribute Editing From a Single Image
- CVPR 2023Raw Image Reconstruction With Learned Compact Metadata
- CVPR 2023Realistic Saliency Guided Image Enhancement
- CVPR 2023Referring Image Matting
- CVPR 2023Rethinking Image Super Resolution From Long-Tailed Distribution Learning Perspective
- CVPR 2023RIDCP: Revitalizing Real Image Dehazing via High-Quality Codebook Priors
- CVPR 2023Robust Unsupervised StyleGAN Image Restoration
- CVPR 2023Scaling Up GANs for Text-to-Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2023SIEDOB: Semantic Image Editing by Disentangling Object and Background
- CVPR 2023SINE: Semantic-Driven Image-Based NeRF Editing With Prior-Guided Editing Field
- CVPR 2023SINE: SINgle Image Editing With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Single Image Backdoor Inversion via Robust Smoothed Classifiers
- CVPR 2023Spatio-Focal Bidirectional Disparity Estimation From a Dual-Pixel Image
- CVPR 2023StyleRes: Transforming the Residuals for Real Image Editing With StyleGAN
- CVPR 2023Text-Guided Unsupervised Latent Transformation for Multi-Attribute Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2023UMat: Uncertainty-Aware Single Image High Resolution Material Capture
- CVPR 2023Uncovering the Disentanglement Capability in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2023Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation With Shortest Path Regularization
- CVPR 2023VIVE3D: Viewpoint-Independent Video Editing Using 3D-Aware GANs
- CVPR 2023WeatherStream: Light Transport Automation of Single Image Deweathering
- CVPR 2023You Do Not Need Additional Priors or Regularizers in Retinex-Based Low-Light Image Enhancement
- ICLR 2023Active Image Indexing
- ICLR 2023DiffEdit: Diffusion-based semantic image editing with mask guidance
- ICLR 2023Diffusion Models Already Have A Semantic Latent Space
- ICLR 2023Editing models with task arithmetic
- ICLR 2023Guess the Instruction! Flipped Learning Makes Language Models Stronger Zero-Shot Learners
- ICLR 2023Image as Set of Points
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FAQ
- How many Image Editing papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 692 in total: 112 in 2023, 160 in 2024, 182 in 2025, 238 in 2026.
- How many Image Editing papers are at NeurIPS 2026?
- NeurIPS 2026 has 52 Image Editing papers, versus 45 the year before.
- How many Image Editing papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 40 Image Editing papers, versus 29 the year before.
- How many Image Editing papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 33 Image Editing papers, versus 11 the year before.
- How many Image Editing papers are at CVPR 2026?
- CVPR 2026 has 113 Image Editing papers, versus 97 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Image Editing papers?
- CVPR, with 364 papers from 2023 to 2026.