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 6 of 14
- CVPR 2025DarkIR: Robust Low-Light Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Deterministic Image-to-Image Translation via Denoising Brownian Bridge Models with Dual Approximators
- CVPR 2025DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2025Dragin3D: Image Editing by Dragging in 3D Space
- CVPR 2025DreamOmni: Unified Image Generation and Editing
- CVPR 2025Dual Prompting Image Restoration with Diffusion Transformers
- CVPR 2025Dynamic Motion Blending for Versatile Motion Editing
- CVPR 2025Easy-editable Image Vectorization with Multi-layer Multi-scale Distributed Visual Feature Embedding
- CVPR 2025Efficient Dynamic Scene Editing via 4D Gaussian-based Static-Dynamic Separation
- CVPR 2025EmoEdit: Evoking Emotions through Image Manipulation
- CVPR 2025FADE: Frequency-Aware Diffusion Model Factorization for Video Editing
- CVPR 2025FDS: Frequency-Aware Denoising Score for Text-Guided Latent Diffusion Image Editing
- CVPR 2025FeedEdit: Text-Based Image Editing with Dynamic Feedback Regulation
- CVPR 2025FFaceNeRF: Few-shot Face Editing in Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2025FINECAPTION: Compositional Image Captioning Focusing on Wherever You Want at Any Granularity
- CVPR 2025FireEdit: Fine-grained Instruction-based Image Editing via Region-aware Vision Language Model
- CVPR 2025Fitted Neural Lossless Image Compression
- CVPR 2025FLAME: Frozen Large Language Models Enable Data-Efficient Language-Image Pre-training
- CVPR 2025Floating No More: Object-Ground Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025FluxSpace: Disentangled Semantic Editing in Rectified Flow Models
- CVPR 2025From Zero to Detail: Deconstructing Ultra-High-Definition Image Restoration from Progressive Spectral Perspective
- CVPR 2025Generative Image Layer Decomposition with Visual Effects
- CVPR 2025GenVDM: Generating Vector Displacement Maps From a Single Image
- CVPR 2025GlyphMastero: A Glyph Encoder for High-Fidelity Scene Text Editing
- CVPR 2025Gyro-based Neural Single Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2025h-Edit: Effective and Flexible Diffusion-Based Editing via Doob's h-Transform
- CVPR 2025HEIE: MLLM-Based Hierarchical Explainable AIGC Image Implausibility Evaluator
- CVPR 2025Hiding Images in Diffusion Models by Editing Learned Score Functions
- CVPR 2025HMAR: Efficient Hierarchical Masked Auto-Regressive Image Generation
- CVPR 2025IDOL: Instant Photorealistic 3D Human Creation from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Image Reconstruction from Readout-Multiplexed Single-Photon Detector Arrays
- CVPR 2025Improving Editability in Image Generation with Layer-wise Memory
- CVPR 2025InsightEdit: Towards Better Instruction Following for Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Instant3dit: Multiview Inpainting for Fast Editing of 3D Objects
- CVPR 2025Instruct-CLIP: Improving Instruction-Guided Image Editing with Automated Data Refinement Using Contrastive Learning
- CVPR 2025Instruction-based Image Manipulation by Watching How Things Move
- CVPR 2025Interpretable Image Classification via Non-parametric Part Prototype Learning
- CVPR 2025JarvisIR: Elevating Autonomous Driving Perception with Intelligent Image Restoration
- CVPR 2025Large-Scale Text-to-Image Model with Inpainting is a Zero-Shot Subject-Driven Image Generator
- CVPR 2025Layered Image Vectorization via Semantic Simplification
- CVPR 2025Learned Image Compression with Dictionary-based Entropy Model
- CVPR 2025Learning Partonomic 3D Reconstruction from Image Collections
- CVPR 2025Less is More: Efficient Image Vectorization with Adaptive Parameterization
- CVPR 2025MagicQuill: An Intelligent Interactive Image Editing System
- CVPR 2025MATCHA: Towards Matching Anything
- CVPR 2025MINIMA: Modality Invariant Image Matching
- CVPR 2025MoEdit: On Learning Quantity Perception for Multi-object Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Multi-focal Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Person Image Synthesis
- CVPR 2025Multirate Neural Image Compression with Adaptive Lattice Vector Quantization
- CVPR 2025Navigating Image Restoration with VAR's Distribution Alignment Prior
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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.