Image Editing papers, 2023–2026

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.

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 2 of 14

51. CVPR 2026InstantRetouch Efficient and High-Fidelity Instruction-Guided Image Retouching with Bilateral Space
52. CVPR 2026InstructMix2Mix Consistent Sparse-View Editing Through Multi-View Model Personalization
53. CVPR 2026Inter-Edit First Benchmark for Interactive Instruction-Based Image Editing
54. CVPR 2026IntrinsicWeather Controllable Weather Editing in Intrinsic Space
55. CVPR 2026JarvisEvo Towards a Self-Evolving Photo Editing Agent with Synergistic Editor-Evaluator
56. CVPR 2026Kontinuous Kontext Continuous Strength Control for Instruction-based Image Editing
57. CVPR 2026Language-Free Generative Editing from One Visual Example
58. CVPR 2026Leveraging Verifier-Based Reinforcement Learning in Image Editing
59. CVPR 2026Linear Image Generation by Synthesizing Exposure Brackets
60. CVPR 2026Low-Resolution Editing is All You Need for High-Resolution Editing
61. CVPR 2026MagicQuill V2 Precise and Interactive Image Editing with Layered Visual
62. CVPR 2026Masked Region Transformer for Layered Image Generation and Editing at
63. CVPR 2026Meta-CoT Enhancing Granularity and Generalization in Image Editing
64. CVPR 2026Missing No More Dictionary-Guided Cross-Modal Image Fusion under Missing Infrared
65. CVPR 2026MMDIR Multimodal Instruction-Driven Framework for Mixed-Degradation Document Image Restoration
66. CVPR 2026More Than Meets the Eye A Unified Image Fusion Framework
67. CVPR 2026MotionEdit Benchmarking and Learning Motion-Centric Image Editing
68. CVPR 2026MotionV2V Editing Motion in a Video
69. CVPR 2026MultiAnimate Pose-Guided Image Animation Made Extensible
70. CVPR 2026NEAF Natural Image Editing with Attention Fusion for Generalizable Test-time
71. CVPR 2026NI-Tex Non-isometric Image-based Garment Texture Generation
72. CVPR 2026NOVA Sparse Control Dense Synthesis for Pair-Free Video Editing
73. CVPR 2026ObjectMorpher 3D-Aware Image Editing via Deformable 3DGS
74. CVPR 2026Omni IIE Bench Benchmarking the Practical Capabilities of Image Editing
75. CVPR 2026Omni-3DEdit Generalized Versatile 3D Editing in One-Pass
76. CVPR 2026OPRO Orthogonal Panel-Relative Operators for Panel-Aware In-Context Image Generation
77. CVPR 2026OrionEdit Bridging Reference and Source Images for Generalized Cross-Image Editing
78. CVPR 2026Personalized Image Descriptions from Attention Sequences
79. CVPR 2026PhaSR Generalized Image Shadow Removal with Physically Aligned Priors
80. CVPR 2026PhotoFramer Multi-modal Image Composition Instruction
81. CVPR 2026Pico-Banana-400K A Large-Scale Dataset for Text-Guided Image Editing
82. CVPR 2026Progress by Pieces Test-Time Scaling for Autoregressive Image Generation
83. CVPR 2026Qwen-Image-Layered Towards Inherent Editability via Layer Decomposition
84. CVPR 2026ReasonEdit Towards Reasoning-Enhanced Image Editing Models
85. CVPR 2026ReasonX MLLM-Guided Intrinsic Image Decomposition
86. CVPR 2026Refacade Editing Object with Given Reference Texture
87. CVPR 2026Reflection Separation from a Single Image via Joint Latent Diffusion
88. CVPR 2026ReflexSplit Single Image Reflection Separation via Layer Fusion-Separation
89. CVPR 2026Rel-Zero Harnessing Patch-Pair Invariance for Robust Zero-Watermarking Against AI Editing
90. CVPR 2026RetouchIQ MLLM Agents for Instruction-Based Image Retouching with Generalist Reward
91. CVPR 2026RewardFlow Generate Images by Optimizing What You Reward
92. CVPR 2026RFDM Residual Flow Diffusion Models for Video Editing
93. CVPR 2026Scaling Instruction-Based Video Editing with a High-Quality Synthetic Dataset
94. CVPR 2026Self-Corrected Image Generation with Explainable Latent Rewards
95. CVPR 2026SkyReels-Text Fine-Grained Font-Controllable Text Editing for Poster Design
96. CVPR 2026SliderEdit Continuous Image Editing with Fine-Grained Instruction Control
97. CVPR 2026SpotEdit Selective Region Editing in Diffusion Transformers
98. CVPR 2026The Devil is in Attention Sharing Improving Complex Non-rigid Image
99. CVPR 2026Towards High-Quality Image Segmentation Improving Topology Accuracy by Penalizing Neighbor
100. CVPR 2026Towards Robust Sequential Decomposition for Complex Image Editing

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.