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
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- 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 14 of 14
- ICLR 2023Interactive Portrait Harmonization
- ICLR 2023Mass-Editing Memory in a Transformer
- ICLR 2023Neural Groundplans: Persistent Neural Scene Representations from a Single Image
- ICLR 2023Neural Implicit Shape Editing using Boundary Sensitivity
- ICLR 2023PaLI: A Jointly-Scaled Multilingual Language-Image Model
- ICLR 2023PEER: A Collaborative Language Model
- ICLR 2023Prompt-to-Prompt Image Editing with Cross-Attention Control
- ICLR 2023The Augmented Image Prior: Distilling 1000 Classes by Extrapolating from a Single Image
- ICLR 2023Transformer-Patcher: One Mistake Worth One Neuron
- ICML 2023Data Representations' Study of Latent Image Manifolds
- ICML 2023Deep Perturbation Learning: Enhancing the Network Performance via Image Perturbations
- ICML 2023I$^2$SB: Image-to-Image Schrödinger Bridge
- ICML 2023Image Restoration with Mean-Reverting Stochastic Differential Equations
- ICML 2023Image Shortcut Squeezing: Countering Perturbative Availability Poisons with Compression
- ICML 2023Raising the Cost of Malicious AI-Powered Image Editing
- ICML 2023Random Shuffle Transformer for Image Restoration
- ICML 2023Topologically Faithful Image Segmentation via Induced Matching of Persistence Barcodes
- NeurIPS 2023A Closer Look at the Robustness of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training (CLIP)
- NeurIPS 2023A Unified Conditional Framework for Diffusion-based Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2023ARTIC3D: Learning Robust Articulated 3D Shapes from Noisy Web Image Collections
- NeurIPS 2023Can Pre-Trained Text-to-Image Models Generate Visual Goals for Reinforcement Learning?
- NeurIPS 2023Collaborative Score Distillation for Consistent Visual Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Constructing Non-isotropic Gaussian Diffusion Model Using Isotropic Gaussian Diffusion Model for Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Detection Based Part-level Articulated Object Reconstruction from Single RGBD Image
- NeurIPS 2023Diffusion Self-Guidance for Controllable Image Generation
- NeurIPS 2023Dynamic Prompt Learning: Addressing Cross-Attention Leakage for Text-Based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Emergent Correspondence from Image Diffusion
- NeurIPS 2023Idempotent Learned Image Compression with Right-Inverse
- NeurIPS 2023ImageBrush: Learning Visual In-Context Instructions for Exemplar-Based Image Manipulation
- NeurIPS 2023MagicBrush: A Manually Annotated Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Neural Lighting Simulation for Urban Scenes
- NeurIPS 2023OBJECT 3DIT: Language-guided 3D-aware Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2023Optimal Transport-Guided Conditional Score-Based Diffusion Model
- NeurIPS 2023PHOTOSWAP: Personalized Subject Swapping in Images
- NeurIPS 2023PromptRestorer: A Prompting Image Restoration Method with Degradation Perception
- NeurIPS 2023Real-World Image Variation by Aligning Diffusion Inversion Chain
- NeurIPS 2023Reproducibility Study of ”CartoonX: Cartoon Explanations of Image Classifiers”
- NeurIPS 2023Semantic Image Synthesis with Unconditional Generator
- NeurIPS 2023Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Apprenticeship Learning
- NeurIPS 2023Tame a Wild Camera: In-the-Wild Monocular Camera Calibration
- NeurIPS 2023The CLIP Model is Secretly an Image-to-Prompt Converter
- NeurIPS 2023Visual Instruction Inversion: Image Editing via Image Prompting
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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.