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
40 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026Charts Are Not Images: On the Challenges of Scientific Chart Editing
- ICLR 2026Consistent Text-to-Image Generation via Scene De-Contextualization
- ICLR 2026Dataless Weight Disentanglement in Task Arithmetic via Kronecker-Factored Approximate Curvature
- ICLR 2026Deconstructing Guidance: A Semantic Hierarchy for Precise Diffusion Model Editing
- ICLR 2026DiffVax: Optimization-Free Image Immunization Against Diffusion-Based Editing
- ICLR 2026Distributional Consistency Loss: Beyond Pointwise Data Terms in Inverse Problems
- ICLR 2026Does FLUX Already Know How to Perform Physically Plausible Image Composition?
- ICLR 2026DragFlow: Unleashing DiT Priors with Region-Based Supervision for Drag Editing
- ICLR 2026Dragging with Geometry: From Pixels to Geometry-Guided Image Editing
- ICLR 2026EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
- ICLR 2026EditScore: Unlocking Online RL for Image Editing via High-Fidelity Reward Modeling
- ICLR 2026EditVerse: Unifying Image and Video Editing and Generation with In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2026EdiVal-Agent: An Object-Centric Framework for Automated, Fine-Grained Evaluation of Multi-Turn Editing
- ICLR 2026Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
- ICLR 2026Factuality Matters: When Image Generation and Editing Meet Structured Visuals
- ICLR 2026FaSTA*: Fast-Slow Toolpath Agent with Subroutine Mining for Efficient Multi-turn Image Editing
- ICLR 2026FlowAlign: Trajectory-Regularized, Inversion-Free Flow-based Image Editing
- ICLR 2026Follow-Your-Shape: Shape-Aware Image Editing via Trajectory-Guided Region Control
- ICLR 2026Free Lunch for Stabilizing Rectified Flow Inversion
- ICLR 2026Geometric Image Editing via Effects-Sensitive In-Context Inpainting with Diffusion Transformers
- ICLR 2026IC-Custom: Diverse Image Customization via In-Context Learning
- ICLR 2026IVEBench: Modern Benchmark Suite for Instruction-Guided Video Editing Assessment
- ICLR 2026LaTo: Landmark-tokenized Diffusion Transformer for Fine-grained Human Face Editing
- ICLR 2026LazyDrag: Enabling Stable Drag-Based Editing on Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformers via Explicit Correspondence
- ICLR 2026Learning an Image Editing Model without Image Editing Pairs
- ICLR 2026Nano3D: A Training-Free Approach for Efficient 3D Editing Without Masks
- ICLR 2026OmniText: A Training-Free Generalist for Controllable Text-Image Manipulation
- ICLR 2026PICABench: How Far are We from Physical Realistic Image Editing?
- ICLR 2026PICS: Pairwise Image Compositing with Spatial Interactions
- ICLR 2026Pixel-Perfect Puppetry: Precision-Guided Enhancement for Face Image and Video Editing
- ICLR 2026Positional Encoding Field
- ICLR 2026Reconstruction Alignment Improves Unified Multimodal Models
- ICLR 2026RegionE: Adaptive Region-Aware Generation for Efficient Image Editing
- ICLR 2026TINKER: Diffusion's Gift to 3D--Multi-View Consistent Editing From Sparse Inputs without Per-Scene Optimization
- ICLR 2026Training-Free Reward-Guided Image Editing via Trajectory Optimal Control
- ICLR 2026Training-Free Text-Guided Color Editing with Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer
- ICLR 2026VINCIE: Unlocking In-context Image Editing from Video
- ICLR 2026Visual Autoregressive Modeling for Instruction-Guided Image Editing
- ICLR 2026W-EDIT: A Wavelet-Based Frequency-Aware Framework for Text-Driven Image Editing
- ICLR 2026WorldEdit: Towards Open-World Image Editing with a Knowledge-Informed Benchmark
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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.