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
182 papers, page 3 of 4
- ICLR 2025Can Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?
- ICLR 2025CLIPDrag: Combining Text-based and Drag-based Instructions for Image Editing
- ICLR 2025CollabEdit: Towards Non-destructive Collaborative Knowledge Editing
- ICLR 2025Composable Interventions for Language Models
- ICLR 2025ConceptPrune: Concept Editing in Diffusion Models via Skilled Neuron Pruning
- ICLR 2025DiffusionGuard: A Robust Defense Against Malicious Diffusion-based Image Editing
- ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions
- 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
- ICML 2025Balancing Preservation and Modification: A Region and Semantic Aware Metric for Instruction-Based Image Editing
- ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
- ICML 2025DragLoRA: Online Optimization of LoRA Adapters for Drag-based Image Editing in Diffusion Model
- ICML 2025Editable Noise Map Inversion: Encoding Target-image into Noise For High-Fidelity Image Manipulation
- ICML 2025FireFlow: Fast Inversion of Rectified Flow for Image Semantic Editing
- ICML 2025FlowDrag: 3D-aware Drag-based Image Editing with Mesh-guided Deformation Vector Flow Fields
- ICML 2025Highly Compressed Tokenizer Can Generate Without Training
- ICML 2025LightningDrag: Lightning Fast and Accurate Drag-based Image Editing Emerging from Videos
- ICML 2025Mitigating Heterogeneous Token Overfitting in LLM Knowledge Editing
- ICML 2025Resolving Lexical Bias in Model Editing
- ICML 2025Towards Lifelong Model Editing via Simulating Ideal Editor
- NeurIPS 20253DOT: Texture Transfer for 3DGS Objects from a Single Reference Image
- NeurIPS 2025A$^3$E: Towards Compositional Model Editing
- NeurIPS 2025AutoEdit: Automatic Hyperparameter Tuning for Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Bio-Inspired Image Restoration
- NeurIPS 2025BlurGuard: A Simple Approach for Robustifying Image Protection Against AI-Powered Editing
- NeurIPS 2025CamEdit: Continuous Camera Parameter Control for Photorealistic Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
- NeurIPS 2025Convolution Goes Higher-Order: A Biologically Inspired Mechanism Empowers Image Classification
- NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Image Editing with Disentangled Causal Latent Space
- NeurIPS 2025CURE: Concept Unlearning via Orthogonal Representation Editing in Diffusion Models
- NeurIPS 2025DCI: Dual-Conditional Inversion for Boosting Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
- NeurIPS 2025EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models
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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.