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

108 papers, page 1 of 3

1. ICLR 2026Charts Are Not Images: On the Challenges of Scientific Chart Editing
2. ICLR 2026Consistent Text-to-Image Generation via Scene De-Contextualization
3. ICLR 2026Dataless Weight Disentanglement in Task Arithmetic via Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature
4. ICLR 2026Deconstructing Guidance: A Semantic Hierarchy for Precise Diffusion Model Editing
5. ICLR 2026DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing
6. ICLR 2026Distributional Consistency Loss: Beyond Pointwise Data Terms in Inverse Problems
7. ICLR 2026Does FLUX Already Know How to Perform Physically Plausible Image Composition?
8. ICLR 2026DragFlow: Unleashing DiT Priors with Region-Based Supervision for Drag Editing
9. ICLR 2026Dragging with Geometry: From Pixels to Geometry-Guided Image Editing
10. ICLR 2026EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
11. ICLR 2026EditScore: Unlocking Online RL for Image Editing via High-Fidelity Reward Modeling
12. ICLR 2026EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning
13. ICLR 2026EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
14. ICLR 2026Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
15. ICLR 2026Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
16. ICLR 2026FaSTA*: Fast-Slow Toolpath Agent with Subroutine Mining for Efficient Multi-turn Image Editing
17. ICLR 2026FlowAlign: Trajectory-Regularized, Inversion-Free Flow-based Image Editing
18. ICLR 2026Follow-Your-Shape: Shape-Aware Image Editing via Trajectory-Guided Region Control
19. ICLR 2026Free Lunch for Stabilizing Rectified Flow Inversion
20. ICLR 2026Geometric Image Editing via Effects-Sensitive In-Context Inpainting with Diffusion Transformers
21. ICLR 2026IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
22. ICLR 2026IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
23. ICLR 2026LaTo: Landmark-tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Fine-grained Human Face Editing
24. ICLR 2026LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
25. ICLR 2026Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
26. ICLR 2026Nano3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Masks
27. ICLR 2026OmniText: A Training-Free Generalist for Controllable Text-Image Manipulation
28. ICLR 2026PICABench: How Far are We from Physical Realistic Image Editing?
29. ICLR 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions
30. ICLR 2026Pixel-Perfect Puppetry: Precision-Guided Enhancement for Face Image and Video Editing
31. ICLR 2026Positional Encoding Field
32. ICLR 2026Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models
33. ICLR 2026RegionE: Adaptive Region-Aware Generation for Efficient Image Editing
34. ICLR 2026TINKER: Diffusion's Gift to 3D--Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization
35. ICLR 2026Training-Free Reward-Guided Image Editing via Trajectory Optimal Control
36. ICLR 2026Training-Free Text-Guided Color Editing with Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer
37. ICLR 2026VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video
38. ICLR 2026Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
39. ICLR 2026W-EDIT: A Wavelet-Based Frequency-Aware Framework for Text-Driven Image Editing
40. ICLR 2026WorldEdit: Towards Open-World Image Editing with a Knowledge-Informed Benchmark
41. ICLR 20253DitScene: Editing Any Scene via Language-guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting
42. ICLR 2025A3D: Does Diffusion Dream about 3D Alignment?
43. ICLR 2025ACE: All-round Creator and Editor Following Instructions via Diffusion Transformer
44. ICLR 2025Can Knowledge Editing Really Correct Hallucinations?
45. ICLR 2025CLIPDrag: Combining Text-based and Drag-based Instructions for Image Editing
46. ICLR 2025CollabEdit: Towards Non-destructive Collaborative Knowledge Editing
47. ICLR 2025Composable Interventions for Language Models
48. ICLR 2025ConceptPrune: Concept Editing in Diffusion Models via Skilled Neuron Pruning
49. ICLR 2025DiffusionGuard: A Robust Defense Against Malicious Diffusion-based Image Editing
50. ICLR 2025Discriminating image representations with principal distortions

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.