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 5 of 14
- NeurIPS 2026EditJudge-Bench: Auditing VLM Image-Edit Judges with Synthetic Ground Truth
- NeurIPS 2026FlowSteer: Towards Agents Designing Agentic Workflows via Reinforced Progressive Canvas Editing
- NeurIPS 2026FlowTrack: Controlling Edit-Signal Execution in Inversion-Free Flow Video Editing
- NeurIPS 2026FreqCa: Accelerating Image generation and editing via Frequency-Aware Caching
- NeurIPS 2026From Structural Feedback to Prompt Policies: Learning Faithful Text-to-Image Prompt Editors
- NeurIPS 2026GenScale: A Benchmark for Relative Object Scale in Image Generation and Editing
- NeurIPS 2026GPT-Image-Edit-1M: An Auditable Million-Scale Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026HandEdit: A Unified Benchmark for Egocentric Human-to-Robot Dexterous Hand Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026IdealCache: Rethinking Cache Scheduling in Diffusion Transformers via Ideal Trajectories
- NeurIPS 2026Inline Critic Steers Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026Internalize External Competence for Visual Instruction Editing
- NeurIPS 2026Lang-SVG: Hierarchical Image Vectorization with Language Priors
- NeurIPS 2026Language Models Can Coarsely Modulate Entropy Under Instruction
- NeurIPS 2026MetaKE: Meta-Learning for Knowledge Editing Toward a Better Accuracy-Editability Trade-off
- NeurIPS 2026Mission Impossible: Diagnosing and Fixing Non-Operative Instruction Following in Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026MLLM-Edit: Benchmarking Image Forgery Detection and Localization under MLLM-based Editing
- NeurIPS 2026MorphGen: Controllable Cell-Image Generation with Biological Representation Alignment
- NeurIPS 2026OTEdit: Entropic Transport Corrected Trajectory for Inversion-Free Flow-Based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026PAVE: Prefill-Conditioned Activation Editing for Hallucination Mitigation in LVLMs
- NeurIPS 2026Probing Visual Planning in Image Editing Models
- NeurIPS 2026RADIUM: RadioActive Decay of Image-Underlaid Marks
- NeurIPS 2026Real In, Real Out: What If We Only Use Real Data for Scene Text Editing?
- NeurIPS 2026Residual Paving: Diagnosing the Routing Bottleneck in Selective Refusal Editing
- NeurIPS 2026Rethinking Contrastive Targets in Radiology Language-Image Pretraining
- NeurIPS 2026RiSE: Residual Subspace Expert for Generalizable Text-Centric Image Forgery Localization
- NeurIPS 2026SCULPT: Advancing Masked Discrete Diffusion for High-Resolution Image Synthesis.
- NeurIPS 2026SIGMA: Semantic-Difference Instruction-Grounding Mask Annotator for Text-Driven Image Manipulation Localization
- NeurIPS 2026SpatialFlow-GRPO: Where Spatial Credit Drives Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026Steer2Edit: From Activation Steering to Component-Level Editing
- NeurIPS 2026StitchEdit: Stitching Depth Priors into Image Editors via Per-Layer Gradient Probing
- NeurIPS 2026Text-Vision Co-Instructed Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2026The Fractured Interlingua: Geometric Bottlenecks in Cross-Lingual Knowledge Editing
- NeurIPS 2026Thinking in Boxes: 3D Editing in Real Images Made Easy
- NeurIPS 2026TokenRepel: Generating Diverse Image Sets Without Sacrificing Quality
- NeurIPS 2026Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools
- NeurIPS 2026Towards Realistic Conversational Multimodal Instruction Following
- NeurIPS 2026VisEditBench: A Benchmark for Vector-Format Diagram Editing with Visual Instructions
- NeurIPS 2026WordEval: Evaluating Word-Native Operation Fidelity in Document Editing
- CVPR 2025Acc3D: Accelerating Single Image to 3D Diffusion Models via Edge Consistency Guided Score Distillation
- CVPR 2025ACE: Anti-Editing Concept Erasure in Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2025Advancing Myopia To Holism: Fully Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training
- CVPR 2025Align-A-Video: Deterministic Reward Tuning of Image Diffusion Models for Consistent Video Editing
- CVPR 2025Any-Resolution AI-Generated Image Detection by Spectral Learning
- CVPR 2025AnyEdit: Mastering Unified High-Quality Image Editing for Any Idea
- CVPR 2025Arbitrary-steps Image Super-resolution via Diffusion Inversion
- CVPR 2025Arc2Avatar: Generating Expressive 3D Avatars from a Single Image via ID Guidance
- CVPR 2025Augmenting Perceptual Super-Resolution via Image Quality Predictors
- CVPR 2025Community Forensics: Using Thousands of Generators to Train Fake Image Detectors
- CVPR 2025Concept Lancet: Image Editing with Compositional Representation Transplant
- CVPR 2025CTRL-D: Controllable Dynamic 3D Scene Editing with Personalized 2D Diffusion
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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.