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
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- 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 9 of 14
- NeurIPS 2025Model Editing for Vision Transformers
- NeurIPS 2025NEP: Autoregressive Image Editing via Next Editing Token Prediction
- NeurIPS 2025Neural-Driven Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025One Stone with Two Birds: A Null-Text-Null Frequency-Aware Diffusion Models for Text-Guided Image Inpainting
- NeurIPS 2025PairEdit: Learning Semantic Variations for Exemplar-based Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025PBR-SR: Mesh PBR Texture Super Resolution from 2D Image Priors
- NeurIPS 2025Personalized Image Editing in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Collaborative Direct Preference Optimization
- NeurIPS 2025Pin the Tail on the Model: Blindfolded Repair of User-Flagged Failures in Text-to-Image Services
- NeurIPS 2025PIVNO: Particle Image Velocimetry Neural Operator
- NeurIPS 2025PixPerfect: Seamless Latent Diffusion Local Editing with Discriminative Pixel-Space Refinement
- NeurIPS 2025Precise Diffusion Inversion: Towards Novel Samples and Few-Step Models
- NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Nighttime Image Deraining via Learnable Color Space Transformation
- NeurIPS 2025Rethinking Residual Distribution in Locate-then-Edit Model Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Señorita-2M: A High-Quality Instruction-based Dataset for General Video Editing by Video Specialists
- NeurIPS 2025Spiking Meets Attention: Efficient Remote Sensing Image Super-Resolution with Attention Spiking Neural Networks
- NeurIPS 2025SplitFlow: Flow Decomposition for Inversion-Free Text-to-Image Editing
- NeurIPS 2025Stratify or Die: Rethinking Data Splits in Image Segmentation
- NeurIPS 2025Towards Reliable Identification of Diffusion-based Image Manipulations
- NeurIPS 2025Unleashing the Power of One-Step Diffusion based Image Super-Resolution via a Large-Scale Diffusion Discriminator
- NeurIPS 2025VITRIX-CLIPIN: Enhancing Fine-Grained Visual Understanding in CLIP via Instruction-Editing Data and Long Captions
- CVPR 20243D-Aware Face Editing via Warping-Guided Latent Direction Learning
- CVPR 2024AdaRevD: Adaptive Patch Exiting Reversible Decoder Pushes the Limit of Image Deblurring
- CVPR 2024Anatomically Constrained Implicit Face Models
- CVPR 2024AnyDoor: Zero-shot Object-level Image Customization
- CVPR 2024Automatic Controllable Colorization via Imagination
- CVPR 2024Benchmarking Segmentation Models with Mask-Preserved Attribute Editing
- CVPR 2024BiTT: Bi-directional Texture Reconstruction of Interacting Two Hands from a Single Image
- CVPR 2024Blind Image Quality Assessment Based on Geometric Order Learning
- CVPR 2024Boosting Image Restoration via Priors from Pre-trained Models
- CVPR 2024Boosting Spike Camera Image Reconstruction from a Perspective of Dealing with Spike Fluctuations
- CVPR 2024CLIB-FIQA: Face Image Quality Assessment with Confidence Calibration
- CVPR 2024ConsistDreamer: 3D-Consistent 2D Diffusion for High-Fidelity Scene Editing
- CVPR 2024Contrastive Denoising Score for Text-guided Latent Diffusion Image Editing
- CVPR 2024CoralSCOP: Segment any COral Image on this Planet
- CVPR 2024Customize your NeRF: Adaptive Source Driven 3D Scene Editing via Local-Global Iterative Training
- CVPR 2024Describing Differences in Image Sets with Natural Language
- CVPR 2024DiffEditor: Boosting Accuracy and Flexibility on Diffusion-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Distilling Semantic Priors from SAM to Efficient Image Restoration Models
- CVPR 2024Distraction is All You Need: Memory-Efficient Image Immunization against Diffusion-Based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024DocRes: A Generalist Model Toward Unifying Document Image Restoration Tasks
- CVPR 2024Doubly Abductive Counterfactual Inference for Text-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Drag Your Noise: Interactive Point-based Editing via Diffusion Semantic Propagation
- CVPR 2024DragDiffusion: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Interactive Point-based Image Editing
- CVPR 2024DreamMatcher: Appearance Matching Self-Attention for Semantically-Consistent Text-to-Image Personalization
- CVPR 2024Edit One for All: Interactive Batch Image Editing
- CVPR 2024Emu Edit: Precise Image Editing via Recognition and Generation Tasks
- CVPR 2024Estimating Extreme 3D Image Rotations using Cascaded Attention
- CVPR 2024FlowIE: Efficient Image Enhancement via Rectified Flow
- CVPR 2024Focus on Your Instruction: Fine-grained and Multi-instruction Image Editing by Attention Modulation
- CVPR 2024Fourier-basis Functions to Bridge Augmentation Gap: Rethinking Frequency Augmentation in Image Classification
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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.