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
364 papers, page 6 of 8
- CVPR 2024Image Restoration by Denoising Diffusion Models with Iteratively Preconditioned Guidance
- CVPR 2024Image Sculpting: Precise Object Editing with 3D Geometry Control
- CVPR 2024Improving Image Restoration through Removing Degradations in Textual Representations
- CVPR 2024Improving Subject-Driven Image Synthesis with Subject-Agnostic Guidance
- CVPR 2024In-N-Out: Faithful 3D GAN Inversion with Volumetric Decomposition for Face Editing
- CVPR 2024Instruct 4D-to-4D: Editing 4D Scenes as Pseudo-3D Scenes Using 2D Diffusion
- CVPR 2024Intraoperative 2D/3D Image Registration via Differentiable X-ray Rendering
- CVPR 2024Inversion-Free Image Editing with Language-Guided Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024LAENeRF: Local Appearance Editing for Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024Language-guided Image Reflection Separation
- CVPR 2024LDP: Language-driven Dual-Pixel Image Defocus Deblurring Network
- CVPR 2024Learned Lossless Image Compression based on Bit Plane Slicing
- CVPR 2024LEDITS++: Limitless Image Editing using Text-to-Image Models
- CVPR 2024MaskINT: Video Editing via Interpolative Non-autoregressive Masked Transformers
- CVPR 2024Material Palette: Extraction of Materials from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024MultiDiff: Consistent Novel View Synthesis from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Navigating Beyond Dropout: An Intriguing Solution towards Generalizable Image Super Resolution
- CVPR 2024NOPE: Novel Object Pose Estimation from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024On Exact Inversion of DPM-Solvers
- CVPR 2024PAIR Diffusion: A Comprehensive Multimodal Object-Level Image Editor
- CVPR 2024Person in Place: Generating Associative Skeleton-Guidance Maps for Human-Object Interaction Image Editing
- CVPR 2024PICTURE: PhotorealistIC virtual Try-on from UnconstRained dEsigns
- CVPR 2024PIGEON: Predicting Image Geolocations
- CVPR 2024Prompt-Free Diffusion: Taking "Text" out of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
- CVPR 2024Ranni: Taming Text-to-Image Diffusion for Accurate Instruction Following
- CVPR 2024Referring Image Editing: Object-level Image Editing via Referring Expressions
- CVPR 2024Revisiting Single Image Reflection Removal In the Wild
- CVPR 2024SCEdit: Efficient and Controllable Image Diffusion Generation via Skip Connection Editing
- CVPR 2024SCINeRF: Neural Radiance Fields from a Snapshot Compressive Image
- CVPR 2024Shadow-Enlightened Image Outpainting
- CVPR 2024SHAP-EDITOR: Instruction-Guided Latent 3D Editing in Seconds
- CVPR 2024ShapeWalk: Compositional Shape Editing Through Language-Guided Chains
- CVPR 2024SinSR: Diffusion-Based Image Super-Resolution in a Single Step
- CVPR 2024SmartEdit: Exploring Complex Instruction-based Image Editing with Multimodal Large Language Models
- CVPR 2024Splatter Image: Ultra-Fast Single-View 3D Reconstruction
- CVPR 2024StrokeFaceNeRF: Stroke-based Facial Appearance Editing in Neural Radiance Field
- CVPR 2024StyLitGAN: Image-Based Relighting via Latent Control
- CVPR 2024Text-Driven Image Editing via Learnable Regions
- CVPR 2024TextNeRF: A Novel Scene-Text Image Synthesis Method based on Neural Radiance Fields
- CVPR 2024The Devil is in the Details: StyleFeatureEditor for Detail-Rich StyleGAN Inversion and High Quality Image Editing
- CVPR 2024TiNO-Edit: Timestep and Noise Optimization for Robust Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Towards Backward-Compatible Continual Learning of Image Compression
- CVPR 2024Towards High-fidelity Artistic Image Vectorization via Texture-Encapsulated Shape Parameterization
- CVPR 2024Towards Understanding Cross and Self-Attention in Stable Diffusion for Text-Guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2024UniHuman: A Unified Model For Editing Human Images in the Wild
- CVPR 2024Universal Segmentation at Arbitrary Granularity with Language Instruction
- CVPR 2024Unsupervised 3D Structure Inference from Category-Specific Image Collections
- CVPR 2024Video-P2P: Video Editing with Cross-attention Control
- CVPR 2024VidToMe: Video Token Merging for Zero-Shot Video Editing
- CVPR 2024ZONE: Zero-Shot Instruction-Guided Local Editing
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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.