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 7 of 14
- CVPR 2025OmniGuard: Hybrid Manipulation Localization via Augmented Versatile Deep Image Watermarking
- CVPR 2025Pathways on the Image Manifold: Image Editing via Video Generation
- CVPR 2025Pattern Analogies: Learning to Perform Programmatic Image Edits by Analogy
- CVPR 2025PhyS-EdiT: Physics-aware Semantic Image Editing with Text Description
- CVPR 2025PhysGen3D: Crafting a Miniature Interactive World from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025PICD: Versatile Perceptual Image Compression with Diffusion Rendering
- CVPR 2025PrEditor3D: Fast and Precise 3D Shape Editing
- CVPR 2025Preserve or Modify? Context-Aware Evaluation for Balancing Preservation and Modification in Text-Guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Probability Density Geodesics in Image Diffusion Latent Space
- CVPR 2025PS-Diffusion: Photorealistic Subject-Driven Image Editing with Disentangled Control and Attention
- CVPR 2025QMambaBSR: Burst Image Super-Resolution with Query State Space Model
- CVPR 2025RealEdit: Reddit Edits As a Large-scale Empirical Dataset for Image Transformations
- CVPR 2025Reference-Based 3D-Aware Image Editing with Triplanes
- CVPR 2025ScribbleLight: Single Image Indoor Relighting with Scribbles
- CVPR 2025Stable Flow: Vital Layers for Training-Free Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Style-Editor: Text-driven Object-centric Style Editing
- CVPR 2025SwiftEdit: Lightning Fast Text-Guided Image Editing via One-Step Diffusion
- CVPR 2025Targeted Forgetting of Image Subgroups in CLIP Models
- CVPR 2025Teaching Large Language Models to Regress Accurate Image Quality Scores Using Score Distribution
- CVPR 2025Text-Driven Fashion Image Editing with Compositional Concept Learning and Counterfactual Abduction
- CVPR 2025The Power of Context: How Multimodality Improves Image Super-Resolution
- CVPR 2025Toward Generalized Image Quality Assessment: Relaxing the Perfect Reference Quality Assumption
- CVPR 2025Towards All-in-One Medical Image Re-Identification
- CVPR 2025Towards In-the-wild 3D Plane Reconstruction from a Single Image
- CVPR 2025Towards Scalable Human-aligned Benchmark for Text-guided Image Editing
- CVPR 2025UNIC-Adapter: Unified Image-instruction Adapter with Multi-modal Transformer for Image Generation
- CVPR 2025UniReal: Universal Image Generation and Editing via Learning Real-world Dynamics
- CVPR 2025Unity in Diversity: Video Editing via Gradient-Latent Purification
- CVPR 2025UNOPose: Unseen Object Pose Estimation with an Unposed RGB-D Reference Image
- CVPR 2025Unveil Inversion and Invariance in Flow Transformer for Versatile Image Editing
- CVPR 2025VideoDirector: Precise Video Editing via Text-to-Video Models
- CVPR 2025VideoHandles: Editing 3D Object Compositions in Videos Using Video Generative Priors
- CVPR 2025Visual Prompting for One-shot Controllable Video Editing without Inversion
- CVPR 2025Visual Representation Learning through Causal Intervention for Controllable Image Editing
- CVPR 2025Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model
- ICLR 20253DitScene: Editing Any Scene via Language-guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting
- ICLR 2025A3D: Does Diffusion Dream about 3D Alignment?
- ICLR 2025ACE: All-round Creator and Editor Following Instructions via Diffusion Transformer
- 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
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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.