Image Editing papers, 2023–2026

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.

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

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351. ICLR 2025InstantPortrait: One-Step Portrait Editing via Diffusion Multi-Objective Distillation
352. ICLR 2025InstantSwap: Fast Customized Concept Swapping across Sharp Shape Differences
353. ICLR 2025IV-mixed Sampler: Leveraging Image Diffusion Models for Enhanced Video Synthesis
354. ICLR 2025Lightning-Fast Image Inversion and Editing for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
355. ICLR 2025MP-Mat: A 3D-and-Instance-Aware Human Matting and Editing Framework with Multiplane Representation
356. ICLR 2025Multi-Reward as Condition for Instruction-based Image Editing
357. ICLR 2025OmniEdit: Building Image Editing Generalist Models Through Specialist Supervision
358. ICLR 2025Perturbation-Restrained Sequential Model Editing
359. ICLR 2025PostEdit: Posterior Sampling for Efficient Zero-Shot Image Editing
360. ICLR 2025Robust Watermarking Using Generative Priors Against Image Editing: From Benchmarking to Advances
361. ICLR 2025Scaling In-the-Wild Training for Diffusion-based Illumination Harmonization and Editing by Imposing Consistent Light Transport
362. ICLR 2025Semantic Image Inversion and Editing using Rectified Stochastic Differential Equations
363. ICLR 2025ToddlerDiffusion: Interactive Structured Image Generation with Cascaded Schrödinger Bridge
364. ICLR 2025Uncovering Overfitting in Large Language Model Editing
365. ICML 2025Balancing Preservation and Modification: A Region and Semantic Aware Metric for Instruction-Based Image Editing
366. ICML 2025DEALing with Image Reconstruction: Deep Attentive Least Squares
367. ICML 2025DragLoRA: Online Optimization of LoRA Adapters for Drag-based Image Editing in Diffusion Model
368. ICML 2025Editable Noise Map Inversion: Encoding Target-image into Noise For High-Fidelity Image Manipulation
369. ICML 2025FireFlow: Fast Inversion of Rectified Flow for Image Semantic Editing
370. ICML 2025FlowDrag: 3D-aware Drag-based Image Editing with Mesh-guided Deformation Vector Flow Fields
371. ICML 2025Highly Compressed Tokenizer Can Generate Without Training
372. ICML 2025LightningDrag: Lightning Fast and Accurate Drag-based Image Editing Emerging from Videos
373. ICML 2025Mitigating Heterogeneous Token Overfitting in LLM Knowledge Editing
374. ICML 2025Resolving Lexical Bias in Model Editing
375. ICML 2025Towards Lifelong Model Editing via Simulating Ideal Editor
376. NeurIPS 20253DOT: Texture Transfer for 3DGS Objects from a Single Reference Image
377. NeurIPS 2025A$^3$E: Towards Compositional Model Editing
378. NeurIPS 2025AutoEdit: Automatic Hyperparameter Tuning for Image Editing
379. NeurIPS 2025Bio-Inspired Image Restoration
380. NeurIPS 2025BlurGuard: A Simple Approach for Robustifying Image Protection Against AI-Powered Editing
381. NeurIPS 2025CamEdit: Continuous Camera Parameter Control for Photorealistic Image Editing
382. NeurIPS 2025CAMILA: Context-Aware Masking for Image Editing with Language Alignment
383. NeurIPS 2025Convolution Goes Higher-Order: A Biologically Inspired Mechanism Empowers Image Classification
384. NeurIPS 2025Counterfactual Image Editing with Disentangled Causal Latent Space
385. NeurIPS 2025CURE: Concept Unlearning via Orthogonal Representation Editing in Diffusion Models
386. NeurIPS 2025DCI: Dual-Conditional Inversion for Boosting Diffusion-Based Image Editing
387. NeurIPS 2025Dual Data Alignment Makes AI-Generated Image Detector Easier Generalizable
388. NeurIPS 2025EditInfinity: Image Editing with Binary-Quantized Generative Models
389. NeurIPS 2025Enabling Instructional Image Editing with In-Context Generation in Large Scale Diffusion Transformer
390. NeurIPS 2025Enhancing Consistency of Flow-Based Image Editing through Kalman Control
391. NeurIPS 2025Envisioning Beyond the Pixels: Benchmarking Reasoning-Informed Visual Editing
392. NeurIPS 2025Exploring Diffusion Transformer Designs via Grafting
393. NeurIPS 2025FRN: Fractal-Based Recursive Spectral Reconstruction Network
394. NeurIPS 2025FSI-Edit: Frequency and Stochasticity Injection for Flexible Diffusion-Based Image Editing
395. NeurIPS 2025Image Editing As Programs with Diffusion Models
396. NeurIPS 2025Image Token Matters: Mitigating Hallucination in Discrete Tokenizer-based Large Vision-Language Models via Latent Editing
397. NeurIPS 2025ImgEdit: A Unified Image Editing Dataset and Benchmark
398. NeurIPS 2025InstructRestore: Region-Customized Image Restoration with Human Instructions
399. NeurIPS 2025KRIS-Bench: Benchmarking Next-Level Intelligent Image Editing Models
400. NeurIPS 2025LoRAShop: Training-Free Multi-Concept Image Generation and Editing with Rectified Flow Transformers

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.