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
108 papers, page 2 of 3
- ICLR 2025Everything is Editable: Extend Knowledge Editing to Unstructured Data in Large Language Models
- ICLR 2025GDrag:Towards General-Purpose Interactive Editing with Anti-ambiguity Point Diffusion
- ICLR 2025Generalized Consistency Trajectory Models for Image Manipulation
- ICLR 2025GoodDrag: Towards Good Practices for Drag Editing with Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025HQ-Edit: A High-Quality Dataset for Instruction-based Image Editing
- ICLR 2025InstantPortrait: One-Step Portrait Editing via Diffusion Multi-Objective Distillation
- ICLR 2025InstantSwap: Fast Customized Concept Swapping across Sharp Shape Differences
- ICLR 2025IV-mixed Sampler: Leveraging Image Diffusion Models for Enhanced Video Synthesis
- ICLR 2025Lightning-Fast Image Inversion and Editing for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2025MP-Mat: A 3D-and-Instance-Aware Human Matting and Editing Framework with Multiplane Representation
- ICLR 2025Multi-Reward as Condition for Instruction-based Image Editing
- ICLR 2025OmniEdit: Building Image Editing Generalist Models Through Specialist Supervision
- ICLR 2025Perturbation-Restrained Sequential Model Editing
- ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
- ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
- ICLR 2025Scaling In-the-Wild Training for Diffusion-based Illumination Harmonization and Editing by Imposing Consistent Light Transport
- ICLR 2025Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equations
- ICLR 2025ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
- ICLR 2025Uncovering Overfitting in Large Language Model Editing
- ICLR 2024BadEdit: Backdooring Large Language Models by Model Editing
- ICLR 2024Circumventing Concept Erasure Methods For Text-To-Image Generative Models
- ICLR 2024Coeditor: Leveraging Repo-level Diffs for Code Auto-editing
- ICLR 2024DragonDiffusion: Enabling Drag-style Manipulation on Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024DreamClean: Restoring Clean Image Using Deep Diffusion Prior
- ICLR 2024ED-NeRF: Efficient Text-Guided Editing of 3D Scene With Latent Space NeRF
- ICLR 2024Evoke: Evoking Critical Thinking Abilities in LLMs via Reviewer-Author Prompt Editing
- ICLR 2024FLATTEN: optical FLow-guided ATTENtion for consistent text-to-video editing
- ICLR 2024From Posterior Sampling to Meaningful Diversity in Image Restoration
- ICLR 2024Get What You Want, Not What You Don't: Image Content Suppression for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Ground-A-Video: Zero-shot Grounded Video Editing using Text-to-image Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
- ICLR 2024Image Inpainting via Tractable Steering of Diffusion Models
- ICLR 2024Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers
- ICLR 2024InstructPix2NeRF: Instructed 3D Portrait Editing from a Single Image
- ICLR 2024Less is More: Fewer Interpretable Region via Submodular Subset Selection
- ICLR 2024Massive Editing for Large Language Models via Meta Learning
- ICLR 2024Motion Guidance: Diffusion-Based Image Editing with Differentiable Motion Estimators
- ICLR 2024Noise Map Guidance: Inversion with Spatial Context for Real Image Editing
- ICLR 2024Object-Aware Inversion and Reassembly for Image Editing
- ICLR 2024PnP Inversion: Boosting Diffusion-based Editing with 3 Lines of Code
- ICLR 2024Progressive3D: Progressively Local Editing for Text-to-3D Content Creation with Complex Semantic Prompts
- ICLR 2024The Blessing of Randomness: SDE Beats ODE in General Diffusion-based Image Editing
- ICLR 2024Zero-Shot Robotic Manipulation with Pre-Trained Image-Editing Diffusion Models
- 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
- ICLR 2023Interactive Portrait Harmonization
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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.